Hair of the Bear

You can watch Hair of the Bear online on iFILM — a Canadian thriller that drops anxious 16-year-old Tori at the edge of nowhere. Her mother drives her to a cabin on the remote Manitoba-U.S. border, where her French-Canadian grandfather still lives by his own rules.

School was never the plan; survival wasn't either, and that's the point. Adjusting to her grandfather's woodsman ways is hard enough before Tori realizes someone else is out there, watching the cabin. Malia Baker and Roy Dupuis carry the two-hander at the center — a scared teenager and a man who trusts the forest more than people.

Directors James McLellan and Alexandre Trudeau keep the cast small and the location tighter still, betting on tension over spectacle — and the bet mostly pays off. Fans of grounded backwoods survival thrillers like Backcountry will find a lot to like here. Ninety-two minutes, one location, no easy way out: Hair of the Bear is streaming now on iFILM.