The horror film focuses on a group of women who go on a wilderness retreat with a therapist, only to discover they are being stalked by … something. In real life, the set of the indie film would occasionally be visited by a persistent grizzly bear when the production was filming near the Canyon Creek Ice Caves in Kananaskis in the fall of 2021. The crew attempted to ward it off by honking air and car horns to no avail.
Still, there is a certain irony to it. Brady and her cinematographer, Jaryl Lim, have a knack for making the natural splendour of Kananaskis look both beautiful and somewhat menacing, hence the title of the film. Dark Nature centres on a group of women who are all suffering from some form of trauma and hope the retreat acts as therapy to help them confront their pasts.
“I started thinking ‘How could I make this story with this character horrific from the beginning?’ ” Brady says. “So I started thinking about domestic abuse being a sort of horror. That’s why I started the movie with the scene that starts it. OK, that’s the horror. I’m not going to tease out her abuse or what happened, let’s just get right into what happened and the fallout.”
The Metis filmmaker spent her early childhood near Edmonton before moving to Calgary at the age of six. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before receiving her Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia’s film program in New York City. Dark Nature is her first feature film, although she was involved in several short films and directed episodes of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s Secret History of the Wild West upon returning to Calgary.
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