Blackfoot Nation Films has created a new Indigenous Canadian Horror-Comedy Anthology series “Tales from the Rez” which breathes life into popular Blackfoot urban legends. Each episode is introduced by crusty Uncle Randolf (Charles Duck Chief) an Elder with one foot in the living world and the other in the spirit world. Each episode blends humour and spine-chilling suspense to offer a twist on age-old tales. The initial season takes place in the traditional territories of the Blackfoot confederacy also known as Southern Alberta, Treaty 7. The series started streaming on APTNlumi on 20October2023.
In “Something in the Water” Uncle Randolf really outdoes himself sitting in a bubble bath in an old washtub smoking his cig, picking his ear and complaining he has no privacy to wash his ass. Yes it matches well with the name of the episode as the man is certainly something in the water!
Savannah the teen is off with her friends to party at the river. Her younger sister TT says to Savannah before she departs that their grandmother had said the river has a spirit and we should respect it. Partying with weed and beer and throwing a beer can in the river, peeing in the river are disrespectful of the spirits and they are angry. Will an offering of tobacco have an effect?
Aside from the outlandish Uncle Randolf there is only horror in “Something in the Water” but creativity and the unusual abound.
You can see the season trailer here https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=6852471304796321
You can stream at the APTN website https://www.aptn.ca/
Written and Directed by Trevor Solway.
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