NOT another streaming Movie - We Bury the Dead

After the fun Send Help last Friday, it was gonna be hard to see another good picture, back-to-back.

However We Bury the Dead, was a damn fine effort.

Actually from 2024, the zombie/survival/horror/thriller film finally got released in Australia & New Zealand last week.

Written and directed by Zak Hilditch, We Bury the Dead had its world premiere in November at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival. While getting released  in North America in January.

Starring English star Daisy Ridley, Mark Coles Smith, & Brenton Thwaites. 

The plot centers on a woman desperate to find her missing husband and follows her journey as she takes on grief and the undead.

After the United States accidentally detonates an experimental weapon off the Eastern coast of Tasmania, the city of Hobart is destroyed, and victims on the island not caught in the immediate blast are rendered brain dead. 

Soon it is found that some of the brain dead are regaining motor function, becoming undead, with some of them becoming violent. American physiotherapist Ava Newman (Ridley), whose husband Mitch was on a business trip in Woodbridge, volunteers as part of an Australian military effort to retrieve and dispose of the bodies of the population. 

Ava is assigned to the northern part of the island, far from Woodbridge, retrieving bodies and alerting soldiers to kill any undead who wake up.

It's an interesting concept. I was hooked and loved the 90 minute run time. Meaning the film just gets right to the point, real quick!

Filming began in February, 2024 in Albany, Western Australia. Alongside, Ridley, Coles Smith & Thwaites, Kym Jackson, Matt Whelan and Deanna Cooney joined the cast, as Lt. Wilkie, Mitch and Bianca respectively.

Filming wrapped the next month. So I really wonder why this was held for release for so long.

Either way this was a fun Tuesday night at the cinema. I also really try and support as many Aussie films as possible.

Enjoyable, original (even in a world of The Last of Us and The Walking Dead/multiple spin-offs) and beautifully shot.

In the current climate of world instability, imagine if something liked this did happen in Tassie?

I hope 2026 continues to give solid films. Hopefully next up, Wuthering Heights. More new music from Charli XCX, yes please!

 

We Bury the Dead, gets a solid 3.5 Stars.