You have to admire anyone willing to sit down and make a zombie movie . Over the past 20 years or so, the zombie genre has been done in so many ways, by so many different people, with such varied results, you’d think we’ve seen it all. The Walking Dead , Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Zombieland , World War Z , just zombies after zombies, and then, guess what? More zombies.

So, to actually make and release a new zombie movie now, there’s got to be a new spin. Something that makes you stand apart from the rest. And, for writer-director Zak Hilditch, it appears he has that. His new film, We Bury the Dead, opens on January 2, 2026, and besides having Star Wars icon Daisy Ridley in the lead role—already a strong start—he’s envisioned a world where zombies exist, but they aren

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