
THE HYPERBOREAN
(Canada, 95 min, 2024)
From the director of Cult Hero (Nevermore 2023), a seasoned crisis manager navigates a PR disaster when a whiskey magnate summons his dysfunctional family to sample his legacy product: casks of Scotch aged 170 years, recovered from a ghost ship in the Canadian Arctic. Now, everyone’s caught in a plot involving triple homicide, Arctic ice mummies, and intergalactic moonshine.
Director Biography - Jesse Thomas Cook
Jesse Thomas Cook is the director of award-winning genre films Cult Hero, Monster Brawl, Septic Man and The Hexecutioners. His 14 horror films have been showcased at some of the top genre fests in the world, including Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, SITGES and FrightFest. In 2018, Blood in the Snow Film Festival bestowed him with their Vanguard Award for his contributions to Canadian genre cinema. His last film, Cult Hero was nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards.
- Year2024
- Runtime95 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorJesse Thomas Cook
- ScreenwriterTony Burgess
- ProducerSamuel Scott
- CastLiv Collins, Tony Burgess, Ry Barrett, Jess Vano, Jonathan Craig, Justin Bott



THE HYPERBOREAN
(Canada, 95 min, 2024)
From the director of Cult Hero (Nevermore 2023), a seasoned crisis manager navigates a PR disaster when a whiskey magnate summons his dysfunctional family to sample his legacy product: casks of Scotch aged 170 years, recovered from a ghost ship in the Canadian Arctic. Now, everyone’s caught in a plot involving triple homicide, Arctic ice mummies, and intergalactic moonshine.
Director Biography - Jesse Thomas Cook
Jesse Thomas Cook is the director of award-winning genre films Cult Hero, Monster Brawl, Septic Man and The Hexecutioners. His 14 horror films have been showcased at some of the top genre fests in the world, including Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, SITGES and FrightFest. In 2018, Blood in the Snow Film Festival bestowed him with their Vanguard Award for his contributions to Canadian genre cinema. His last film, Cult Hero was nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards.
- Year2024
- Runtime95 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorJesse Thomas Cook
- ScreenwriterTony Burgess
- ProducerSamuel Scott
- CastLiv Collins, Tony Burgess, Ry Barrett, Jess Vano, Jonathan Craig, Justin Bott