Blood Quantum (2019) KILL COUNT

Zoran Gvojic

Mike Cygan

Blood Quantum (2019) KILL COUNT is the two hundred and forty first video of James A. Janisse's series, The Kill Count

## Overview

In 1981, on the Red Crow Indian Reservation in Quebec, Canada, fisherman Gisigu catches a number of salmon, and observes that they continue to move after being gutted. Elsewhere that morning, Gisigu's son, indigenous sheriff Traylor, responds to a call about a dying dog that belongs to his ex-wife, nurse Joss. Traylor euthanizes the dog by gunshot. He goes to visit Joss, and learns that their son Joseph has been arrested for vandalism in a nearby town and is in jail with his half-brother Lysol. Traylor then visits Gisigu, who shows him the gutted yet moving salmon. Joss's dead dog reanimates in the trunk of Traylor's police car, and Traylor shoots it. Gisigu and Traylor set the dog and the fish on fire.

Traylor and Joss head into town to free Joseph from jail. Traylor, Joseph, Lysol, and police officer Shamu encounter an ill, violent man in the jail who bites Joseph on the arm. Joseph goes to a hospital, where his white, pregnant girlfriend Charlie is waiting. That night, Traylor responds to a call from a indigenous man named Shooker. Traylor enters Shooker's house and is attacked and bitten by Shooker's white girlfriend, whom Traylor beats with the butt of a shotgun. Traylor and Shooker head to a bridge where Joss, Joseph and Charlie have found themselves after having escaped the hospital in an ambulance.

Six months later, the outbreak of flesh-eating "zeds" has become widespread, and the Red Crow Reservation has been turned into a fortified compound. Its residents have learned that indigenous people cannot be infected by the "zed" plague, though white people can. Lysol has become increasingly aggressive towards Joseph and others' tendency to bring outsiders—such as a man and his young daughter, the latter of whom was bitten by an infected person, as well as a girl named Lilith, who hides the fact that she has also been infected—to the compound.

That night, at Lysol's shelter away from the compound, Joseph finds a now-zombified Lilith chewing on the severed penis of Lysol. Joseph and Lysol drive back to the compound with Lilith in restraints. Lysol stabs Joseph with a knife, and lets Lilith loose inside the compound. Traylor and Gisigu, who went on a mission to eliminate zombies at a gas station with fellow tribesman Bumper, return to the compound to find it overrun with zombies. They learn that Joss, Joseph, Charlie, and eight other survivors are trapped in the basement of the compound. In the process of rescuing them, Traylor is eaten alive by zombies.

Joss, Joseph and Charlie escape with Gisigu and Bumper. While Gisigu and Joseph enter a church to stop two associates of Lysol from murdering a group of survivors, Lysol finds Joss, Charlie and Bumper. Lysol kills Bumper and Joss shoots Lysol, but not before Lysol is able to unleash a zombie from the trunk of a car. The zombie bites Charlie, and Joseph arrives and kills the zombie. Joseph and Gisigu lead a wounded Lysol away from the scene, and Joseph stabs Lysol. Gisigu lets off a gunshot into the air, alerting zombies to the location where Lysol is; the zombies proceed to eat Lysol alive.

Joseph, Charlie and Joss set out into a large body of water on a boat. Gisigu, armed with a sword, stays behind on land to fight off the zombies. On the boat, Charlie gives birth to a baby girl. Charlie, succumbing to her bite wound, asks Joseph to kill her before she transforms into a zombie, and he mournfully shoots her in the head.

## Deaths

### Counted Deaths

* Guy in Jail - Died, turned into zombie - 18 mins in
* Guy in Hospital - Killed by zombie - 25 mins in
* Baby - Born a zombie? Eaten by zombie mom? - 27 mins in
* Shooker's Girlfriend - Zombified, head bashed in w/ gun - 28 mins in
* Ambulance Driver - Zombified, shot in the head by Joss - 30 mins in
* Hospital Employee - Zombified, head chainsawed in half wow - 31 mins in
* Kyra - Zombified, axe to the head offscreen - 38 mins in
* 11 Zombies - Shot, shredded, or otherwise killed - 42-43 mins in
* Kyra's Father - Slit wrists, zombified, killed again offscreen - 45 mins in
* Lilith - Zombified! - 59 mins in (Seen As Zombie)
* 6 Zombies - Killed by Traylor & Bumper - 1 hr 1-3 mins in
* 8 Zombies - Killed by Gisigu w/ sword - 1 hr 4 mins in
* Refugee - Killed by zombie behind door - 1 hr 8 mins in
* 9 Victims Behind Walls - Seen killed by zombies - 1 hr 10 mins in
* Legless Zombie - Stabbed in head w/ sword - 1 hr 11 mins in
* 2 Zombies - Stabbed w/ sword - 1 hr 12 mins in
* 2 Refugees - Killed by zombies - 1 hr 13 mins in
* 2 Zombies - Run over by Bumper - 1 hr 14 mins in
* Police Chief Traylor - Disemboweled and eaten by zombies - 1 hr 14 mins in
* Doris - Killed by psycho killer zombie offscreen - 1 hr 16 mins in
* Headless Corpse - Seen headless & dragged by James - 1 hr 18 mins in
* Moon - Sword to the side of the face - 1 hr 19 mins in
* Trunk Zombie - Decapitated w/ machete - 1 hr 22 mins in
* Lysol - Disemboweled and eaten by zombies - 1 hr 25 mins in
* 3 Dead Bodies - Who knows? Probably zombies! - 1 hr 27 mins in (Seen Dead)
* 12 (?) Zombies - Chopped up w/ sword by Gisigu - 1 hr 27-28 mins in
* Charlie - Shot in head - 1 hr 33 mins in

### Non-Counted Deaths

* Gisigu - Fate ultimately unknown.
* Bumper - Stabbed through the back by Lysol, possibly bled out.
* Shooker - Fate ultimately unknown

## Trivia

* This is the first Shudder Original Covered on the Kill Count.
* This is also the first Canadian movie covered on the Kill Count.