Trickster
2020
Original language: English
- sci-fi & fantasy
- drama
The story
An Indigenous teen struggles to support his dysfunctional family as myth, magic, and monsters slowly infiltrate his life.
What it’s like
Rain-soaked Northwest Coast light, grey skies over dark evergreen forest and small-town streets, with the sea and mountains always close. The palette runs cool and damp, warmed only by kitchen lamps and the glow of a phone screen, so the everyday scenes feel heavy and close while the mythic ones open into shadowed woods. The score and sound design lean on low drones and hushed ambient textures that swell when something uncanny stirs, and the quiet between them carries real weight. The tone mixes raw family drama with folklore, unsettling and sometimes funny, with a steady undertow of dread. Its pace is unhurried, built around everyday strain and small moments of tenderness, with the supernatural arriving in gradual creeps rather than sudden shocks. Violence is present and can be sharp when it comes, and there is some horror and fear, along with substance use and domestic harm, but no gore for its own sake. A young man's struggle to hold his family together is the emotional spine. It suits viewers who want atmospheric, character-driven Indigenous mythology for a late evening, and those who enjoy coming-of-age stories shaded with the uncanny.
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