BLOOD QUANTUM (full review at Screen Realm)

Blood Quantum is an Indigenous Canadian horror movie and the second feature from Mi’gmaq director Jeff Barnaby, following up his 2013 debut Rhymes For Young Ghouls. It screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (T.I.F.F.) in 2019 and is currently streaming on Shudder in the U.S.

Blood Quantum is set on the Red Crow Reservation in 1981 and opens with local police chief Traylor (Michael Greyeyes), doing his rounds, as weird things start to happen. When Traylor is called back to the police station to bail out his son, Joseph (Forrest Goodluck), and his friend Lysol / Alan (Kiowa Gordon) it becomes increasingly apparent that the zombie apocalypse is unfolding around them. In an interesting twist to the established zombie rules, it transpires the Indigenous population are immune to zombie infection. So as the zombie threat starts to take hold, the First Nations people establish Red Crow Reservation as a safe haven and start to take in survivors from the general populace, who are not immune. Of course, it’s not all plain sailing for the Indigenous population, as they are still as vulnerable as anybody else to being torn apart by a zombie horde. But it does give them an advantage.

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IMDB: Blood Quantum