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“Horry County Museum to host Halloween screening and discussion of Blood Quantum”
Celebrate Halloween with a different kind of zombie film. In partnership with the South Carolina Commission for Community Advancement and Engagement and the Native American Film & Video Festival of the Southeast, the Horry County Museum will host a screening and discussion of the film Blood Quantum on October 31st at 1 PM. Blood Quantum combines intense horror with a powerful Indigenous perspective, using the zombie genre to explore colonialism, sovereignty, intergenerational trauma, cultural survival, and the meaning of identity. Set in an alternate 1981, a zombie plague spreads across the world, but the Indigenous residents of the fictional Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow are mysteriously immune. As surrounding communities collapse, tribal leaders must protect their people while confronting difficult questions about survival, sanctuary, identity, and the legacy of colonization. This film is rated R for language, violence and gore and is not suitable for all audiences.
The film will be followed by a community conversation focused on tribal sovereignty, cultural survival, and the ongoing fight against erasure. Using the film’s apocalypse metaphor as a starting point, the discussion will explore how Indigenous communities have already endured historic efforts to remove, assimilate, redefine, and erase Native peoples, cultures, governments, and identities, and how tribal communities continue to resist those forces today.
The conversation will also examine the idea that, for many Indigenous communities, “the apocalypse” is not simply a fictional future event, but a useful metaphor for generations of colonization, displacement, cultural suppression, and attacks on sovereignty. The discussion will center on how Native communities continue to rebuild, preserve culture, exercise sovereignty, and ensure that their histories and identities remain visible for future generations.
This event will be held at the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, S.C. This program is free and open to the public, no reservations or tickets required. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. For more information about our programs, visit the museum website at Click for Details.
Celebrate Halloween with a different kind of zombie film. In partnership with the South Carolina Commission for Community Advancement and Engagement and the Native American Film & Video Festival of the Southeast, the Horry County Museum will host a screening and discussion of the film Blood Quantum on October 31st at 1 PM. Blood Quantum combines intense horror with a powerful Indigenous perspective, using the zombie genre to explore colonialism, sovereignty, intergenerational trauma, cultural survival, and the meaning of identity. Set in an alternate 1981, a zombie plague spreads across the world, but the Indigenous residents of the fictional Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow are mysteriously immune. As surrounding communities collapse, tribal leaders must protect their people while confronting difficult questions about survival, sanctuary, identity, and the legacy of colonization. This film is rated R for language, violence and gore and is not suitable for all audiences.
The film will be followed by a community conversation focused on tribal sovereignty, cultural survival, and the ongoing fight against erasure. Using the film’s apocalypse metaphor as a starting point, the discussion will explore how Indigenous communities have already endured historic efforts to remove, assimilate, redefine, and erase Native peoples, cultures, governments, and identities, and how tribal communities continue to resist those forces today.
The conversation will also examine the idea that, for many Indigenous communities, “the apocalypse” is not simply a fictional future event, but a useful metaphor for generations of colonization, displacement, cultural suppression, and attacks on sovereignty. The discussion will center on how Native communities continue to rebuild, preserve culture, exercise sovereignty, and ensure that their histories and identities remain visible for future generations.
This event will be held at the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, S.C. This program is free and open to the public, no reservations or tickets required. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. For more information about our programs, visit the museum website at Click for Details.
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October 31, 2026
1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Horry County Museum
805 Main Street
Conway, SC 29526
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The Horry County Museum was established in 1979 and opened its doors to the public in 1981. The Museum focuses on the history, pre-history, and natural history of Horry County, S.C., and educates the public about these subjects through exhibits, outreach programs, and events. In 2009, the Museum opened the L. W. Paul Living History Farm. The Farm is a re-creation of life on a one horse family farm between the years of 1900-1955. Visitors to the farm can experience what life was like in a farm community during those years and attend quarterly events at the Farm. In 2014, the Museum moved into the renovated 1905 Burroughs School. The school is on the National Register of Historic Places. The move includes increased exhibits, a freshwater aquarium featured on Animal Planet’s hit reality show “Tanked”, and a 600 seat auditorium that hosts public presentations and programs.
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