Director Jeff Barnaby has also edited and wrote the music for Blood Quantum
You know there are certain rules to be respected and appreciated, but you know that in the context of a horror film, those rules will not be, or else there wouldn’t be much of a film.
The brand new release BLOOD QUANTUM is your daily average zombie horror flick – and in the small Native American community of Red Crow, it isn’t the people that come back from the dead first, but the salmon in the water around the town, and then the dogs, of which the latter is shot by a local police officer, but comes back from the eternal to almost wreak even more havoc.
The same officer is having a bit of trouble with his son who has been picked up with a friend of his and are laying in their cell waiting to be picked up when a third male suddenly coughs up blood and starts to bite, or attempt to, anyone he can muster.
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This is just the start – and six months later, the community is now battling to survive and find like-minded individuals who might have done the same, holed up in a barricaded enclosure, whilst battering down a bridge nearby with a harvester mechanism to dice any unfortunate cadavers wandering aimlessly into their community with purpose….
Although like most zombie offerings there are lulls in the narrative to give an insight into the background of the characters, BLOOD QUANTUM does at least attempt to have depth in the film. Using a Native American community with all its spiritual history from the Old West is a contrast to the traditional locale of an island or a city – and it’s clear that the spirits of the Old World are determined to make their mark again to remind the survivors of how life used t to be.
Horror fans will have no trouble getting into this film, especially those weaned on the classic George A. Romero DEAD films and Fulci films like ZOMBIE FLESH-EATERS and CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD. The make-up and gore FX are very effective (and yep, a chainsaw comes into the fore at one point in the film).
Director, Jeff Barnaby, who also edited and wrote the music for the film, has concocted a reasonable, stylish horror film with some great atmospheric cinematography.
