{"id":112060,"date":"2020-04-28T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=112060"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:11:25","slug":"blood-quantum-surprise-release-for-shudder-zombie-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/blood-quantum-surprise-release-for-shudder-zombie-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Quantum: Surprise release for Shudder zombie thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shudder has announced that is has rerouted from its planned spring release for the acclaimed Canadian Indigenous zombie thriller <em><strong>Blood Quantum\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and has said it is excited to spontaneously launch the movie at a moment in history where it could not be more significant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew the film was important and timely when we acquired it last year, but given recent events,\u00a0<strong><i>Blood Quantum<\/i>\u2019s<\/strong> themes of isolation, fear of contagion, and humanity struggling with the ramifications of a global virus have only grown more relevant,\u201d said Shudder General Manager Craig Engler. \u201cWhen a theatrical release became untenable due to the real-world pandemic, we decided to accelerate the launch of Barnaby\u2019s film so it would reach the biggest audience possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em><strong>Blood Quantum <\/strong><\/em>the dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi\u2019gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are immune to the zombie plague.<\/p>\n<p>The film stars\u00a0Michael Greyeyes (<em><strong>Fear The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em>), Kiowa Gordon (<em><strong>The Twilight Saga<\/strong><\/em>), Olivia Scriven (<em><strong>Degrassi: Next Class &amp; The Next Generation<\/strong><\/em>), William Belleau (<em><strong>Frontier<\/strong><\/em>), Devery Jacobs (<em><strong>American Gods<\/strong><\/em>) and is written, directed and edited by Jeff Barnaby, a First Nations filmmaker born on the Mi\u2019gmaq reserve.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lvt-KHsOd0M\" width=\"375\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Blood Quantum will roll-out on all Shudder platforms as of Midnight EST on 28 April and is expected to fully propagate by midday. Read our review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/blood-quantum-review-indigenous-zombie-thriller-brings-guts-and-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Nations director Jeff Barnaby\u2019s timely TIFF selection is available now in the US, UK &#038; Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":112061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[6804],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Blood-Quantum.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127374,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112060\/revisions\/127374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}