One of the highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was Jeff Barnaby‘s zombie thriller Blood Quantum, which Shudder plans to release sometime in 2020.
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.
Joe Lipsett reviewed the film for us, 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.”
In this first clip, watch as dead fish return to life, foreshadowing the undead apocalypse.