WEEK IN WOMEN: Ngozi Onwurah’s WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME to Blu-ray – Brandy McDonnell reports

Nigerian-born British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah’s trailblazing 1995 sci-fi feature Welcome II the Terrordome has been restored and will be released in on October 6, 2026, on Blu-ray via The Criterion Collection.

The first theatrically distributed British feature by a Black woman, the dystopian science fiction film furiously evokes a near future in which Black people are segregated within a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering violence and anger threaten to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s murder.

Named after an incendiary single by Public Enemy, the film, written and directed by Onwurah, uses its rap soundtrack to both comment on and drive its narrative, part of a sensibility in which American, British and African cultures collide and the past, present and future collapse.

In her prescient sci-fi feature, Onwurah builds a visionary, Afrofuturist cosmology that connects the history of slavery to modern-day systemic racial brutality. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN