Who doesn’t love a good zombie movie? If I knew anyone who didn’t, we wouldn’t stay friends for very long. Zombies have been a staple of movies for many years, and they won’t stop like an army of the undead.
A new movie due out, We Bury the Dead, is from director Zak Hilditch and stars Daisy Ridley. Pretty much every type of zombie has been done ‘to death’, but We Bury the Dead has an original take, apparently.
In Hilditch’s new movie, there are still flashes of humanity in some of the zombies, like brief moments of clarity from a dementia patient. This means it makes shooting them in the head a little more conflicting.
The movie stars Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith, Matt Whelan, David Genat, Kym Jackon and Chloe Hurst. The story of We Bury the Dead is:
Ava, a desperate woman whose husband is missing in the aftermath of a catastrophic military experiment, joins a “body retrieval unit,” but her search takes a chilling turn when the corpses she’s burying start showing signs of life.
Hilditch is writing and directing. He is known for 1922 and Rattlesnake. I have seen both and remember them being pretty good, not great, but not terrible.
According to reports, the zombies coming back to life are not a given. Some do, some don’t and the longer they are ‘alive’ the more dangerous they become. Hilditch, and sound designer, Duncan Campbell, have been working on the sound effects.
They have designed “an ominous and nerve-shredding” sound of teeth chattering with some of the zombies. What, like the end of World War Z?
We Bury the Dead will be out soon, I can’t say when as it’s seeking US distribution.
