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Horror, Thriller 95 min R
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After a catastrophic military disaster reanimates the dead, Ava searches for her missing husband amidst an increasingly hostile world.
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We Bury the Dead (2026) is a capable survival thriller that attempts to bring a more intimate, grounded perspective to the zombie subgenre. Set in the aftermath of a military accident in Tasmania, the film benefits from a strong central performance by Daisy Ridley, who effectively portrays the desperation and grief of a woman searching for her missing husband. The movie’s most interesting hook is the nature of its "undead"—reanimated corpses that are slow and docile at first but become increasingly aggressive the longer they stay "online." This, combined with the unnerving sound design—specifically the chilling, glass-like grinding of their teeth—creates some genuinely atmospheric moments. Director Zak Hilditch also manages to maintain an impressive sense of scale despite the film's more modest production. However, the film often feels like it's holding back. While the premise of a "body retrieval unit" is unique, the story eventually settles into familiar genre tropes that we've seen many times before. The pacing is somewhat sluggish for a 94-minute runtime, as the narrative leans heavily into marital drama and flashbacks that occasionally stall the momentum. It is a solid, well-m
Read the whole review on TMDB"We Bury The Dead" is truly compelling for the first half of the film but then loses its momentum. As the film begins, it crosses a spectrum of emotions from chilling, horrific to ultimately tragic. What's really disturbing about this film is that it's wholly believable, too. It's so well done. We get scenes of apocalyptic destruction in Tasmania, Australia. We see people emotionally broken and seeking answers as a result of the death of loved ones. Many come to help in the massive cleanup operation in the hope they can say "goodbye". You see a woman crying at the side of her dead son, while Australian soldiers look on and awkwardly try to console her. It's heart-wrenching stuff. Worse still, some people come back from the dead as zombie-like things who grow ever more violent the longer they are left in a reanimated state. Then we have the main character trying to find her husband, who was on a business trip to Tasmania. Her relationship with him, which is slowly revealed as the story unfolds, is complex, fraught and messy. In other words, wholly human. She is there to say goodbye not just to him but what her life with him represented. Backing all of this is excellent cinematograph
Read the whole review on TMDBFull review: https://movieswetextedabout.com/we-bury-the-dead-movie-review-daisy-ridley-delivers-a-masterclass-in-stoic-despair/ Rating: B- "We Bury The Dead ends up being a positive experience, where technical excellence and a sweeping central performance try to compensate for a script that loses its breath and coherence in the home stretch. Although it doesn't manage to keep the promise of its unique premise until the end, falling into conventions it sought to avoid, Zak Hilditch's film offers enough to deserve attention, especially for the way it treats horror as an extension of human pain. It's a visceral reminder that the true battle isn't against the monsters walking out there, but against the memories that refuse to let us go, proving that sometimes the only way to survive grief is to finally look it in the eye."
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