We Bury the Dead
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- Directed by
- Zak Hilditch
- Written by
- Zak Hilditch
- Produced by
- Mark Fasano, Ford Corbett, Nathan Klingher, Grant Sputore, Kelvin Munro, Ross M. Dinerstein, Jade van der Lei, Anna-Nora Bernstein, Lee Broda, Laurel Charnetsky, Mario de La Guardia, Jatin Desai, Nicholas Erickson, Sean Fannan, Nick Farnell, Kristen Figeroid, Greg Friedman, Ryan Friscia, Ari Harrison, Jeff Harrison, Zak Hilditch, Phil Hunt, D.J. Jiang, Nelson Khoury, Ari Novak, Joey Suquet, Emily Thomas, Joshua Harris, Jessica Rae
Why it’s HorroRated
This is a zombie film more interested in grief than gore, and Hilditch keeps the focus on what it means to search for someone without knowing what you hope to find. Ridley carries it with a raw, stubborn performance, and the unresolved cracks in Ava's marriage give the journey real weight. It plays more like a melancholy road movie than a scare machine. An original and unsettling film.
Synopsis
Zak Hilditch's We Bury the Dead (2026) stars Daisy Ridley as Ava, who volunteers for a body-recovery team after a military accident wipes out thousands of people in Tasmania. Her real goal is to reach the hotel where her husband, Mitch, was attending a conference, and when the dead start coming back to life she teams up with Clay (Brenton Thwaites) to cross the disaster zone. It premiered at SXSW in 2025 and opened in North America in January 2026.
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Streaming in the US changes often. Listings from JustWatch via TMDB, checked November 10, 2026.See every option
Quick facts
- Release date
- January 1, 2026
- Runtime
- 1 hour 35 mins
- Country
- Australia, United States of America
- Language
- English
- Content rating
- R
- Entry type
- Movie
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