Blood Quantum

    Blood Quantum
    2019

    Synopsis

    The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

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    Cast

    • Michael GreyeyesTraylor
    • Elle-Máijá TailfeathersJoss
    • Forrest GoodluckJoseph
    • Kiowa GordonLysol
    • Olivia ScrivenCharlie
    • Stonehorse Lone GoemanGisigu
    • Brandon OakesBumper
    • William BelleauShooker
    • Devery JacobsJames
    • Gary FarmerMoon

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Consequence

      A lot of people are going to judge the film based on its success as a horror movie, and others will judge it as a political statement. Not that I think there’s a deficiency in any part of its personality, but I also think the panache with which it is both of those things and more — without looking to the history of genre or the future of civil rights for permission to say some pretty bold stuff — is why the film is a success.
    • 75

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      It is as much a gusty dissection of colonialism as it is a gut-spilling splatter-thon.
    • 75

      Original-Cin

      Blood Quantum is not short on social, and cultural observations, but neither does it scrimp on zombies gorging on lengthy intestines.
    • 70

      Slashfilm

      Blood Quantum makes some important points, gives us stuff to care about and then drenches it all in audacious gore. And isn’t that exactly what we want from our zombie movies?
    • 63

      RogerEbert.com

      I found myself admiring Barnaby’s editing and production skills—“Blood Quantum” looks great—but he’s not quite yet there in directing performances or writing dialogue. Everything here feels a bit too first draft or first take when the characters aren’t fighting off growling zombies.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      Unfortunately, the film emulates many of its genre brethren’s inability to convert a promising start into a solid second act. . . . though a haunting finale almost redeems the flabby midsection.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      Barnaby’s colonialist take on the formula is far from subtle, and at times a little too bluntly on the nose, but he’s a film-maker with both something to say and the skillset to say it in a distinctive way, offering up an initially engaging alternative to mere guts and shock tactics.
    • 58

      IndieWire

      It may not be a great zombie movie, but it’s a uniquely powerful reminder of why zombie movies are great.

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