The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
BLOOD QUANTUM
The term "blood quantum" refers to a colonial blood measurement
system that is used to determine an individual's Indigenous status, and
is criticized as a tool of control and erasure of Indigenous peoples.
The words take on even more provocative implications as the title of
Jeff Barnaby's sophomore feature, which grimly depicts an apocalyptic
scenario where in an isolated "Mi'gmaq" community discover they are the
only humans immune to a zombie plague. As the citizens of surrounding
cities flee to the "Mi'gmaq" reserve in search of refuge from the
outbreak, the community must reckon with whether to let the outsiders in
- and thus risk not just the extinction of their tribe but of humanity,
period. The severe and scathing portrait of post-colonial Indigenous
life and culture that Barnaby previously captured in the acclaimed
Rhymes for Young Ghouls here deftly collides with the iconography and
violent hyperbole typical of the zombie genre. The Undead are
spectacularly and gruesomely ...
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