…. From a Welcome New Perspective
"Horror's become more inclusive in recent years, a welcome shift for a genre that has historically favored white-centric stories. Blood Quantum, which just hit Shudder, is a pretty typical zombie movie except for one big difference: it's set on a First Nations reserve and is told from the POV of Indigenous people.
Writer, director, editor, and composer Jeff Barnaby, who was born on a Mi'gmaq reserve in Quebec, has one previous film under his belt (the drama Rhymes for Young Ghouls, which is also set on a First Nations reserve), but Blood Quantum—which screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness series last year—has serious breakout potential, especially now that it's on Shudder. Its ominous first act shows us the very beginning of the zombie outbreak, as fish, dogs, and eventually people who should be dead start snapping back to life…"
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