The Inhuman (2021)

Original title

L'Inhumain

Directed by

Jason Brennan

Genre

thriller, horror

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

18A

Rating

3.2 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A troubled neurosurgeon returns to his childhood home after his father dies. He confronts a wendigo from Algonquin legend, which represents his own inner demons.

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What happens

The Inhuman (French: L'Inhumain) is a Canadian psychological thriller film, directed by Jason Brennan and released in 2021. Based on the Algonquin legend of the wendigo, the film stars Samian as Mathieu, a successful but troubled neurosurgeon whose life is falling apart, who confronts a wendigo when he returns to his childhood home of Kitigan Zibi for the first time in decades following his father's death. The cast also includes Véronique Beaudet, Jeanne Roux-Côté, Sonia Vigneault, Julie Barbeau, Creed Commando, Phil Macho Commando, Andrew Dewache, Karl Farah, Lili Gagnon, Louis Gallant, Caroline Gelinas, Chloé Germentier, Richard Jutras, Neil Kroetsch, Pierre-Michel Le Breton, Brittany LeBorgne and Angela McIlroy-Wagar. According to Brennan, the film was meant to explore the idea, present in some but not all versions of wendigo mythology, that the wendigo is not so much a supernatural being as a personification of a person's own inner demons. The film premiered on October 31, 2021, at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, before going into commercial release in April 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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