WINTERTIDE FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

December 8, 2023

By Erik Piepenburg

Beth (Niamh Carolan) spends her days — or is it nights? — patrolling her small Canadian town where sunlight no longer exists and where zombielike humans called strays wander the snow-covered streets. To fight malaise, townspeople are supposed to take happy pills, but Beth has stopped doing so, apparently immune to whatever is causing her neighbors to turn rabid. As she increasingly has nightmares about a pustule-covered version of herself who turns people into strays, Beth starts to wonder if she may be the affliction’s cause — and cure.

Much like “Shifted,” another recent Canadian gem, John Barnard’s film is an intimate and eerie study in pandemic-era isolation and its long tentacles. A horror-science fiction hybrid that would make David Cronenberg proud, this film works its magic in slow burn style, buoyed by Barnard and Carrie-May Siggins’s finely-tuned and humane script, and Markus Henkel’s cinematography that makes Winnipeg, where the movie was filmed, look like a haunted Arctic.

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