Special Report: Ancestral Beasts (2026)

Writer-director Tim Riedel joins Mike for Ancestral Beasts (2026), a Red River Métis horror feature in which Elyse (Morgan Holmstrom) retreats to a remote family cabin after her mother's death and finds something in the woods that feeds on everything she won't face. Riedel traces the film back to his mother's Sixties Scoop childhood and her later borderline personality disorder diagnosis — the…