Native Horror Double Feature presented by Rez Film Club
Directed by
SHOWTIMES
Movies start 6-8 minutes after listed showtime
Sun 10/12:
3:00pm - Slash/Back
5:30pm - Blood Quantum
RELEASE DATE
10/12/25
RATING
18+
RUN TIME
Rez Film Club is presented by the Native Circle Advisory Board at Circle Cinema and proudly sponsored by the Flint Family Foundation and Cherokee Film.
3:00pm: “Slash/Back”
5:30pm: “Blood Quantum”
Rez Film Club celebrates Native voices on film, and it wouldn’t be October without some horror flicks! Join us for a FREE afternoon with two frightful Native horror films plus a costume contest, trivia, prizes, and more in-between the features! First up at 3:00pm is the coming-of-age shapeshifting alien horror “Slash/Back.” Costume contest follows in the lobby at 4:30pm, then wrap the day with “Blood Quantum” where the Mi’kmaq Red Crow res is strangely immune to a zombie plague.
All admission is free, first come first serve with one free regular popcorn with each ticket.
About the films:
Slash/Back – 1h24min, not rated but recommended for 13+, English
The feature debut from Nyla Innuksuk (Inuit) was originally released in 2022 and a Grand Jury Award nominee at SXSW that year. Set in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, a sleepy hamlet nestled in the majestic mountains of Baffin Island in the Arctic Ocean, SLASH/BACK opens as the village wakes up to a typical summer day. No School, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her ragtag friends, the usual summer is suddenly not in the cards when they discover an alien invasion threatening their hometown. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives but, using makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge, they show the aliens you don't f*** with the girls from Pang.
Blood Quantum – 1h38min, horror, not rated but recommended for 18+, English & Mi’kmaq
Directed by the late Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq, 1976-2022) and originally released in 2019, “Blood Quantum” debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival to great acclaim, with Variety praising the film about a “tribal reservation is beset by zombies in a horror opus.” The dead are coming back to life outside. But in the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, the indigenous inhabitants are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the tribal sheriff, must protect his son's pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees and reserve riffraff from the hordes of walking white corpses.
