Jeff Barnaby's eagerly awaited zombie flick piles on the insane gore effects, and the rage. The haven here isn't an indoor mall but a remote Mi'kmaq community, the undead bug (let's call it politicovirus allegoridae) affects settlers only, and the plot hinges on how to deal with white survivors from the city—with a measure of compassion in the case of Traylor (Michael Greyeyes), much less so for the young hothead Lysol (Kiowa Gordon). As with his Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Barnaby shows an impressive eye (and ear—hello, Waylon Jennings!) for pulpy comic-book style and excess, and the film even resolves into a couple of animated sequences. As such, what it lacks in tension, which is a lot, it gains in nerve and panache.

Georgia Straight, September 2019