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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Blood Quantum
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Executive Producers
Adrian Love Tim Ringuette Nate Bolotin Ryan Shoup Noah Segal Todd Brown Gabe Scarpelli John Christou
Lighting
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Hélèna Laliberté Jean-François Lachapelle Leah Marie Lawrence Michael Scherer Maxime Laurin Marie France Denoncourt Jean Frenette Felix Famelart Nicolas Couture Yan Lecomte Jesse Provencher Sébastien Rouleau Alexandre Cadieux Stéphane Julien Francis Limoges Erick Meslier Matt Simard Mich Todorovic Eric Paul-Hus Christine Cleary Naomi Frenette
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Alternative Titles
Kwantum krwi, Rouge Quantum, 블러드 퀀텀, Rouge quantum, Племенска крв, 血量子, Чистота крови, Quantum de sangre, 血疫, Кръвен квант, Horror Sangrento
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Premiere
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Canada18A
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Netherlands16
05 Oct 2019
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South Korea
Busan International Film Festival
06 Oct 2019
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Spain18
Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival
19 Oct 2019
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USA
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
08 Nov 2019
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Sweden15
Stockholm International Film Festival
23 Nov 2019
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Italy
Torino Film Festival
07 Dec 2019
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Poland
Splat!FilmFest Horror Film Festival
Digital
27 Apr 2020
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USANR
28 Apr 2020
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Canada18A
11 Dec 2020
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JapanR15+
02 Dec 2021
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Brazil18
Physical
07 Jul 2020
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Canada18A
24 Sep 2020
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Germany18
Releases by Country
Brazil
02 Dec 2021
- Digital18 Cinema Virtual
Canada
05 Sep 2019
- Premiere18A Toronto International Film Festival
28 Apr 2020
- Digital18A
07 Jul 2020
- Physical18A
Germany
24 Sep 2020
- Physical18
Italy
23 Nov 2019
- Premiere Torino Film Festival
Japan
11 Dec 2020
- DigitalR15+
Netherlands
05 Sep 2019
- Premiere16
Poland
07 Dec 2019
- Premiere Splat!FilmFest Horror Film Festival
South Korea
05 Oct 2019
- Premiere Busan International Film Festival
Spain
06 Oct 2019
- Premiere18 Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival
Sweden
08 Nov 2019
- Premiere15 Stockholm International Film Festival
USA
19 Oct 2019
- Premiere Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
27 Apr 2020
- DigitalNR
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What separates this from the rest of the endless current zombie wave isn't the anti-colonialist subtext or that it's the work of indigenous filmmakers, although both of those things are certainly admirable. More importantly it confidently rides a line between the usual Walking Dead-style bleakness and actual satire, with a ton of terrific gore and some real honest-to-God humor instead of camp or silliness. A very good splatter film.
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As George Romero first discovered — and hordes of other filmmakers have since refined — zombies are a fun and effective vehicle for addressing the most intractable anxieties of the modern world; even bone-deep social ills have a funny way of seeming more digestible when explored through a story about people rabidly eating each other’s entrails. A scattershot but clear-eyed bit of midnight madness that renders colonialism as a literal plague, Jeff Barnaby’s “Blood Quantum” may bite off more human flesh than it can chew, but this hopeful modern howl against the indignities suffered by Canada’s indigenous population (the Mi’gMaq in particular) is still a credit to its genre. 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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I love how this movie opens... immediately setting up the perfect fog drenched lived in atmos for a movie like this to breathe.
Plenty of sociopolitical subtext and a premise I found to be quite inspired, Blood Quantum features some great performances, wonderful cinematography, top notch/tastefully done gore, and a score (especially towards the end) that really stuck to my bones—sounding like it actually came from an 80’s horror movie instead of the usual carpenter wannabe pulsating synth score that’s festering in so many movies now.
Sure there’s some familiar tropes here as far as zombie films go, but there’s a meaningful weight behind this besides the usual ‘humans are the real monsters’ drop that undercuts genre films such as these. Loses…
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Rock solid premise (providing an underseen racial context to the extinction anxieties of the zombie genre) and Barnaby has good compositional instincts. It looks good and a lot of the gore is stellar. But this needed 7 more drafts on that screenplay, way too many cliché surfaces to really sink into or, honestly, even feel it.
Edit: have upped my rating slightly on rewatch, was able to get over the slight disappointment I had at TIFF that this was more of a derivative Walking Dead familial melodrama than the full-blown, angry Day of the Dead on a native reserve I was hoping for but I've watched a lot of really shitty new release horror recently and revisiting this it was honestly refreshing to watch something that wasn't a vague, droning "Trauma" A24 thing and just simply a competently-made splatter film with very few pretensions of being more than that.
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The questions that arise when engaging in genre cinema are about which rules to follow and which rules to break. Which subgenres, which homages, which responses, which new grounds to explore? Entering into genre cinema with the intention of asserting a political identity, a cultural identity, a national identity, adds further questions - what will be said if I break this rule? What does it mean for the political or cultural content if I reference this other film? What are the implications of combining these?
Blood Quantium makes explicit its intention to address issues of race, nation, and violence, taking its title from a controversial policy of determining one's race via the amount of "native blood" one has and using…
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This one snuck up on me...
In a landscape where a new zombie pandemic flick is a dull dime a dozen, Jeff Barnaby’s take on the undead is fresh, relevant and GORY AS FUCK.
Really enjoyed the places this one went.
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Presented in lush and vivid animation is the image of a pregnant Indigenous woman tied to the earth. Her fetus growing in its waters, with bright green vein-like strands connecting them. There’s animation, Indigenous imagery, like this a few times throughout Jeff Barnaby’s second feature film, but the distant lights of a town is a reminder of sacred land lost.
Blood Quantum is a Canadian feature set in and around the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow in 1981. The title refers to, as the press notes state, the colonial policy of “determining indigeneity based on the percentage of your indigenous heritage.” If you have anything less than 50% of Indigenous blood quantum, you cannot call yourself Indigenous. It’s a…
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By my lights, Blood Quantum has a lot of potential but said potential is mostly wasted.
Sure, I appreciate the clear sociopolitical subtext and the unique take on the zombie genre. And I'm always down for increased representation for marginalized people. (Though not all representation is equal - e.g., nuanced and positive representation contra representation that reifies harmful controlling images, stereotypes, etc.)
Something that I've made a point to regularly mention in my professional work throughout the years:
📢 This is a nation erected on stolen land.📢
The past is always saddled to the present, and Blood Quantum is a painful reminder of the reverberating ravages colonialist oppression has on Natives and their land, even when subtly communicated.
All that…
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Kind of disappointed by how bare this was. Blood Quantum has an amazing premise, a good cast, some incredible gore and surprising moments of brutality. But the plot is like three “previously on” recaps spliced together, without a larger narrative or strong characters to glue the good aspects into a cohesive whole. There’s an emphasis on group/family drama, which is standard for the subgenre, but without the meat to make the drama land or for the audience to get invested.
But this is still an enjoyable and well-made zombie film. The First Nation representation feels authentic, grounded, and creates an intimate sense of community that isn’t always found in the small bands and compounds of the genre. The opening act…
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🌜Daily Horror Hunt #27 (Sept. 2020)🌛
[30] Watch a horror you missed from 2019.Went into this totally blind, and WOW, what an awesome lil' surprise! Blood Quantum lays out an incredibly unique, Indigenous Native perspective that I've never seen touched upon in horror before. Colonialism vibes once again rear their ugly head for a group of people who've already seen their fair share of genocidal bullshit, a hardened tribe facing the same fear of extinction but now with an undead twist. Struggling between revenge for past sins, or forgiveness for the sake of humanity as a whole. White people are the diseased blanket, and really, can you blame some folks for wanting to toss it on the fire...
And…
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