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8	''Blood Quantum'' is a Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Creator/MichaelGreyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Creator/ForrestGoodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Olivia Scriven]], Creator/KawennahereDeveryJacobs and Creator/GaryFarmer.
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10	Set in 1981, the movie concerns a zombie outbreak near the Red Crow Reservation, where Traylor (Michael Greyeyes) is the police chief. The Native population discovers they are immune to the virus, and begin fighting back against the zombies and taking in survivors.
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12	The movie premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness category and was later given a release in Canadian theatres with a limited theatrical release in the United States prior to the film being released on the Shudder streaming service.
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14	Trailers can be seen [[https://youtu.be/GxWrPr3XQjc here]] and [[https://youtu.be/Lvt-KHsOd0M here]].
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16	!!Tropes Associated With Blood Quantum Include:
17	* AmicableExes: Traylor and Joss are divorced but get along great.
18	* AssholeVictim: Lysol.
19	* BastardBastard: Traylor's illegitimate son Lysol is an absolute monster.
20	* TheBigGuy: Bumper is a burly man who carries a large axe as his favorite weapon and is one of the group's main fighters. When someone asks who has "the most meat on them", everyone looks at Bumper.
21	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lysol is defeated and Joseph, Charlie and Joss escape a horde of zombies by boat. But the reservation is overrun, Traylor and many other survivors are dead (with the fates of the rest of the survivors being unknown) and Joseph is forced to kill Charlie (who just gave birth) after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
22	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:In the end, Joseph sadly shoots Charlie in the head after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
23	* ChainsawGood: A favorite weapon against the zombies, including a very memorable shot where a zombie attacking Traylor is killed with a chainsaw through the back of its head.
24	* ConstructionVehicleRampage: A variant occurs when Bumper and Moon block the bridge leading to the reservation with a giant snowblower. The zombies mindlessly try to charge through it and are shredded apart.
25	* DeathOfAChild: One woman infected with the zombie virus (Shooker's girlfriend) is seen eating the fetus she had just given birth to.
26	* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Traylor, the main character and leader of the survivors, dies at the beginning of the third act. Emphasis then shifts to Joseph and the grandfather, and their efforts to defeat Lysol and save the remaining survivors.]]
27	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
28	** The movie was meant as an allegory for the 1981 raids on the Restigouche Reservation by Canadian police. Jeff Barnaby has cited the documentary ''Incident at Restigouche'' as a major inspiration.
29	** Then there is the scene where a white survivor is chastised for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt#Biological_warfare_involving_smallpox attempting to bring a plague-infected blanket into the camp.]]
30	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Joseph might not be the ''most'' responsible teen, but he's a lot more well-adjusted than his half-brother Lysol.
31	* FreudianExcuse: Lysol's mother died soon after his birth, and Traylor basically abandoned him, something Lysol is quick to bring up.
32	* GateGuardian: Lysol and James guard the main entrance to the post-apocalyptic compound and are rather unpleasant toward arriving refugees.
33	* GenderBlenderName: Joseph's girlfriend is named "Charlie".
34	* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: ZigZagged. Joseph's girlfriend Charlie is planning on getting an abortion early in the movie, and Joseph is hesitantly supportive, but it never happens because of the chaos caused at the hospital by the zombie outbreak. [[spoiler:She later gives birth before dying.]]
35	* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Lysol, by way of the infected girl being brought into the camp.]]
36	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Traylor sacrifices himself so the others can escape.]]
37	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Lysol is proof that the natives, while immune to the virus, are just as susceptible to cruelty and savagery as anyone else.
38	* TheImmune: All native people are immune to the zombie virus. Due to this, native Canadians on a reservation fight off the zombies and aid the survivors.
39	* JerkassHasAPoint: Lysol's hostility towards white people is cruel and unpleasant, but he's not ''wrong'' when he says an infection among them could end up killing everybody.
40	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Lysol. He absolutely hates white people and expresses it to the refuges and those protecting him. Right when it looks like Joseph saved him from his zombified girlfriend though, he proceeds to stab Joseph and has his own forces deposit said girlfriend into the camp, killing and zombifying numerous refugees, [[spoiler:while also killing his father Traylor.]]
41	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Unlike Lysol and Moon, it's unclear whether James gets killed for participating in the murders of the white refugees and unleashing the zombie in the reservation]].
42	* KillItWithFire: One of the only safe ways to dispose of the dead.
43	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Traylor's father Gisigu prefers a katana.
44	-->"You don't need to reload a sword."
45	* LastStand: As Joseph, Charlie, and Joss are leading the surviving refugees to the boat, Joseph's grandfather Gisigu decides to remain behind to hold the Zeds off, saying he won't abandon their land again. As the others flee, Gisigu can be seen holding off the Zeds on his own with his {{katana\|sAreJustBetter}}. While he makes clear he doesn't expect to be making it out of this alive, he's last seen standing triumphant over the Zeds holding a decapitated head.
46	* MalignedMixedMarriage: They're not married, but Charlie and Joseph having a child together is looked upon with trepidation by some because Charlie is white and therefore vulnerable to the zombie virus.
47	* NotUsingTheZWord: The word "zombie" is never spoken aloud. The most common slang used for the virus/infected is "Zed".
48	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Alan aka "Lysol", Traylor's oldest son.
49	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This zombie virus infects salmon and dogs, too, and seems to be spread by water. Also, indigenous people are immune to infection.
50	* RetiredBadass: Traylor's katana-wielding, WWII veteran father, Gisigu, is one of the most competent zombie killers in the movie.
51	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Lysol is left to be torn apart by zombies when the others escape.]]
52	* TimeSkip: At the end of the first act, we jump six months into the future where society is at the brink and the Reservation seems like it could be the last safe place for the uninfected.
53	* WastelandElder: Gisigu is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran and First Nations fisherman who is about to become a great-grandfather and is the first person to notice signs of the ZombieApocalypse. He becomes his son's right-hand man in running a besieged encampment of reservation inhabitants (who are immune to zombification but are still at risk of being EatenAlive) and Caucasian refugees.
54	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Joss, Charlie, and Joseph escape via the boat, but the fate of the rest of the survivors is left unknown.]]
55	* WouldntHurtAChild: Bumper is in charge of executing infected refugees, but can't bring himself to kill a little girl who has been bitten by a zombie. Traylor does it for him.

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