One of this year’s must-see horror films is Jeff Barnaby‘s zombie thriller Blood Quantum, which is releasing in Canada later this month before Shudder infects audiences later this spring.
In Blood Quantum, the dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its indigenous inhabitants who are immune to the zombie plague. Amid the chaos, a tribal sheriff must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees, and reserve riff-raff from the hordes of walking white corpses.
Shudder has released a blood-soaked red band trailer and it sure looks like one of the better zombie films in recent years.
Joe Lipsett reviewed the film for us out of the TIFF World Premiere, writing that “Blood Quantum serves both as a reasonably entertaining zombie film, but more importantly, as a vital socio-political critique of real historical events in Canada.”
Directed and written by Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, the film stars Michael Greyeyes (“Fear The Walking Dead”), Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (On the Farm) and Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant).