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With the lack of a trailer or really any information, I had no idea what to expect from this film, especially the tonality. The worry I have when watching a new Canadian film is that it will be as the majority are; slow, cheap, and morbid. But, I'm thankful to say Blood Quantum is a step above the average morbid Canadian film, and it even manages to get an important and overlooked message across amidst all the blood and gore.

The performances are all around very good, and to my satisfaction felt like honest portrayals of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. And the fact that a movie like this exists, featuring a majority-Indigenous cast in a bloody, gory zombie film, is very exciting for the ever growing presence of Indigenous peoples in cinema.

This film also offered a ton of blood and gore, which starts I'd say not even 10 minutes into the film. No time is wasted getting to all of the gory fun stuff, but it doesn't forget about its characters, managing to create relationships which I became invested in. I would say I think the handling of some critical moments of emotion could have been handled with a little more power, but with that said, the tone of this film is fairly lighthearted at times despite its core message (this is not to say the film is lighthearted). And I should also add, the gore effects are all awesome. Lots of practical work done, and so much of it is very creative and inventive. I had a blast during these scenes, and there are more than enough of them.

I could go on about the minimal, but very good musical score, which builds a tension of eeriness, and at times reminds you that this is in fact an indigenous film. The cinematography is also very good for a Canadian production, with most of the lighting and blocking feeling very expensive and consistent. Some aerial shots even reminded me of the intro to Kubrick's 'The Shining' in which a camera hauntingly looms over the Torrance car.

I enjoyed this film, and it offers a lot of quality effects, passion, and entertainment to be had. Not to mention it manages to leave us with an important, optimistic look towards the future relationship between the Indigenous peoples of Canada and the non-indigenous (English) peoples of Canada, a message that needs to be in the minds of every Canadian today and so forth.

If you get the chance to see this film, do see it, and pay for a ticket if you have the option, because there's no telling how much box office success a film like this will attain, and it deserves more than it may very well get.

7/10

I think this little non pretentious zombie B-Movie is quite good if you're a fan of the genre. Originally main actors are most Native Americans and their acting is quite decent. Also, some great scenes with lots of gore. On the other hand the script is not original but who cares, overall the movie is quite decent for fans that love movies like Planet Terror or Resident Evil. So, if you're a, fan, enjoy this one. If you're not, do not expect The Schindler's list here.

The first act of this movie is amazing. It had me thinking that we were in cult classic territory. And then the brakes were applied, hard... the entire second act was an exercise in boredom with some preachiness sprinkled in for seasoning.

The third act opens with a bang and I'm thinking, we're back, redemption time... alas it was not to be, like a microcosm of acts 1 and 2, the brakes are applied and we slow everything down once more and the film meanders to a nonsensical ending.

This is a shame because the potential is clearly there... but every time momentum is built the creators opted to let things simmer down. Now maybe this would have been acceptable if the writing, characters, etc... could stand on their own, but they can't. Characters and story are very poorly developed and you aren't going to end up caring about any of them.

Something that I did enjoy was that our de facto protagonist didn't adhere to the collected, calm, and cool Indian stoic stereotype. It's clear early on that the guy is a wreck and it makes him quite likeable. So kudos for that.

In the end it's worth a watch... when it's good, it's great. Just a shame that the creative team couldn't hit that note consistently.

"Just like the dog. Just like the fish." The dead are coming back to life in Jeff Barnaby's socially aware zombie flick, Blood Quantum. As an impressive ode to the legacy of George A. Romero, Barnaby has given us a tale of the end of the world-where only indigenous peoples are spared as the world burns in chaos.

Six months after the apocalypse, those who have survived now reside on Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, where they have regrouped and implemented new rules to live by. Along with mostly indigenous people, a small handful of non-indigenous survivors have escaped the dead for now.

Joseph (Forrest Goodluck) and Lysol-yes that was the character's name well before Covid introduced surreal anecdotes regarding disinfectants, (Kiowa Gordon) are two brothers who have arrived at fundamentally different understanding as to why the dead keep coming back to life.

The relationship between the two brothers is in constant flux as they try to grasp the fact that their father; town sheriff (Michael Greyeyes) was never around for his first born, Lysol, but was seemingly always present for Joseph, to dire consequence for the two brothers.

Just as the community of survivors comes to find practicality in their new reality a war is waged and a final battle begins, pinning the walking dead and humans alike of one belief system against people of a different view. In the third and final act the depravity of men becomes worse than what Mother Earth has unleash.

With a little tightening of the wrench, Blood Quantum could compete with the best of 'em. It is an entertaining zombie film; those of us who love the genre will especially dig it. The movie's message is spelled out clearly and it plays out well as the metaphor that all of our decisions will come back and haunt us. Had the dialog used a little fine tuning, Blood Quantum could soar.

This movie is definitely not for everyone. Here zombie fans get what they ask for. This movie ticks the boxes & doesn't mess around. It packs a punch and hits its mark. Unlike so many other movies which try to target a broader audience, by adding drama, comedy, meaningfulness and other crap, thus diluting the zombie experience, this movie stays true to the genre and is therefore intended mainly for pure zombie aficionados.

(I gave it a 7 which is a very high score - an 8 would be in Romero territory, but I think it truly deserves it because: the genre is still alive and well, and with its limited resources it achieved a lot...)

This movie really got me excited in the first 30 mins it was roaring along from the opening shot of the fish to the attack in the cabin then it suddenly just became really boring, the dialogue was utterly atrocious and the dark cinematography did not help.

It has a new concept and some good gore scenes but sadly that is not enough to sustain a whole movie these days - Very disappointing!

I only watched this because I signed up to a cheap trial of Shudder and have been working my way through their titles out of boredom...

I reached this title, read the description and thought 'meh, sounds ok' and clicked play.

I was expecting something low budget, low quality and low entertainment but what I got was a pretty decent zombie survival movie. It is (as far as I know) low budget but some of the performances were good enough to keep me engaged and the grandad was in my opinion very cool.

It's a movie I'd happily sit through again.

The downside is that the plot seems to be a bit... random. One minute you have a group of people pulling together and then - not so much. I won't say more because it is entertaining and is worth a viewing but it's a solid midrange movie to pass a couple of hours with.

This movie circles around a Native American community that happen to be immune for the zombie virus. First the best part of the movie, the camera work is outstanding, it really is. Now the bad news, at times there is action, but most time is filled with talking, in the middle of the movie there are 3 scenes with only talking, the scenes combined that take up 30 minutes and is hard to endure. The story, well, that has been done a 1000 times, nothing new. The action, half of the action scenes are sadly out of camera. The acting, well, the cast proof that that is not their strongest point, but it not so bad as many B movies.

This movie is not for everyone, so if you want to leave the theater (something you might wish you'd be able to do right now, Quarantine and all), do so and don't blame the movie if it doesn't do you, as you'd wish it'd do you. Don't get me wrong, the movie has quite a lot of flaws, but it also has some neat and interesting ideas overall.

The mixing of native americans and immunity and other stuff really elevate this to a degree. The constant uses of cliches drag it back down many times too though. The beginning though is ripe and rich with tensions and suspense. And then it does something unexpected, time wise ... which I thought a good movie. Unfortunately this new setting does not last long and the ticking time bomb goes off as expected ... Samurai swords (cool) and unnecessary sacrifices included ...

Few indigenous fellas r immune to a virus which turns people into bloodthirsty zombies but they r threatened by the large no of outsiders seeking refuge in their reserved colonies. The film has some impressive gory kills, moves at a steady pace but the darkly shot (mostly night time scenes) makes it troublesome. Wud have been ok if it were a vampire flick but zombies needs to b shown in broad daylight. Ther is a disturbing scene where an infected mother eats her baby, it is copied from David Cronenberg's Rabid.

This film cud have been another Stakeland but somehow this one will be forgotten soon cos it ain't that great.

This was a unique and a bit emotional zombie flick. I wasn't expecting much but the ending was kind of a gut punch similar to the ending to train to busan. But overall it as pretty good, we need more fun and original zombies flicks now days.

The biggest problem wit the movie is that it is not scary. Undead need to be scary. The special effects are decent. The acting is above average for an amazon movie. The camera work is very good. But the writing is incoherent, the flow too uneven. They tried to present a big chunk of the world when a smaller piece would have sufficed the story. Walking Dead is scarier than this. Entertainment value is low.

I really enjoyed this one, and I'm not a huge fan of Zombie movies. But, I really liked the Native American setting and wherever they filmed it had a strong, desolate, kind of isolated feeling which really added to the doom filled atmosphere.

The actors were mostly Natives too, you could tell by their names. That gave the film kind of a unique setting where you had a genuine feel for the people.

The writing I felt was particularly sharp. I really liked some of the clever lines and the dry, subdued humour, it worked really well especially in such a grim film.

The suspense was extremely well done too, building the dread and relentless fear quite effectively as time went on. I really liked some of the quirky characters too which I feel due to the excellent writing and acting really came across as very believable.

Towards the end of the movie I kind of questioned the motives of why a certain guy did what he did, especially after the writers and the actor did such a good job of building this complex character and some true sympathy for him. I found that rather strange that they took the story in that direction, although I can see how they wanted to plot to go.

Also, for me personally, the one critique that I would have is that when you have such a powerful and relentlessly grim film like this, I think then you really have to 'Pay Off' the audience to some extent with the ending due to putting them through so much throughout the movie. And, without giving anything specific away, I really feel that with all that the characters and the audience went through, they could easily have made the ending a lot less grim. Just for me, I think at that point, the audience could have used a bit more of an uplifting ending and I feel that they just went a tad overboard with some negative happenings, that honestly just were not really necessary.

But yes, overall an extremely well made and very effective, very scary Zombie movie that has very sharp writing and acting and is far above average for a film of this type.

I wanted to like this film. I really did. But I either didn't get the film, or the film was really bad. I know, the zombie film theme is done to death (pardon the pun) and this film certainly brings a breath of fresh air to the genre by mixing Indian elements to it, but that's about it. I see nothing else unique about this zombie film compared to many others. And I have very low standards when it comes to zombie films. Usually like most of them. Somehow, this film didn't do it for me.

Would I watch it again? No. Would I make my friends watch it? Hello no!

I just watched it, I thought it started strong but got confused at the end. I loved seeing Natives on screen. The story was a bit all over the place for me, and I felt like the conflict in the movie wasnt as strong. The baby scene at the beginning was deadly, I thought that would set the tone but the rest felt weak. Way to go for the natives being immune tho,

This film really lost traction after the second act. Being a zombie movie it looked like it was heading towards an exciting and thrilling joy ride, but after that time jump things got so boring. The pacing, characters and story did nothing for me. When the third act picked up, I had already lost interest.

Blood Quantum (2019) is a Shudder original I recently watched. The storyline involves a zombie outbreak where Native Americans on a reservation seem to be immune. They build a self sufficient compound and save survivors as they find them; however, it's unpredictable how the non-immune people can survive long term.

This movie is directed by Jeff Barnaby (Rhymes for Young Ghouls) and stars Michael Greyeyes (Wild Indians), Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Bloodlands), Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), Gary Farmer (The Score) and Olivia Scriven (The Yard).

The storyline for this while initially sounding cliche has some fun and unique elements. The nuances of the town are well established and the sheriff is absolutely awesome. There are some greats sets and settings the film takes place in. They also do a great job of establishing the new world after the zombie outbreak. The kill scenes are excellent and contain some great gore and use of various killing methods.

Overall this is a well done horror flick with enough unique elements and circumstances to keep you locked in. It's always fun to see a different zombie genre picture. I'd score this a solid 7/10 and strongly recommend it.

This movie was awesome for a low budget movie 4 mil!. 10 times better then Fear the walking dead! The Actors was really convincing Michael Greyeyes he is really talented and is underrated he deserves to be In bigger movies! But this movie was good allot off blood and good made Zombies...

They really needed to decide with this movie if it was meant to be a social commentary piece or al all out horror movie instead of trying to do both and failing miserably. The film plods along leaving the viewer confused and unengaged. If they are trying to say something they need to make you care which they don't. This film is a huge waste of time.

Taking a cue from George Romero's social commentary-laced zombie classics, Blood Quantum is a decent riff on the zombie apocalypse on a native American reservation. Not sure what the heck the title means as it has no relevance to the movie.

Prepare yourself for an uncomfortable ride. I'd place Blood Quantum in the same category as His House, two films released in 2020 that deal with real world and social issues within the horror genre. On one level this is a standard zombie flick, all the anticipated guts, blood and gore are included. What separates this movie from the zombie trope is the story of the First Nation people being unexpectedly immune from the zombie virus. What follows is an uncomfortable form of social cleansing as political differences grow between survivors of the zombie apocalypse.