"Using words such as contemplative and mournful to describe a film that includes its fair share of gnarly head-smashing has become something of a cliche, so much so that last month's meta-comedy Anaconda reboot had its characters joke that these days, even a film about a giant snake needs intergenerational trauma to work. But Hilditch mercifully avoids drowning his film in drab self-seriousness."
"We Bury the Dead, which was part funded by the Adelaide film festival before premiering at SXSW, is less focused on death toll and more on the toll left on those who've lost someone, in this iteration as the result of a US government blunder. In a turn of events that doesn't seem awfully far-fetched given the clown show that is Trump's military, a catastrophic accident involving a weapon of mass destruction kills around half a million people in Tasmania."
Zak Hilditch directs We Bury the Dead, a zombie survival thriller that centers on grief and the human cost of a catastrophic US military accident in Tasmania. The plot follows Ava (Daisy Ridley) who joins volunteers to retrieve and identify bodies after a weapon of mass destruction kills around half a million people. The film balances mournful themes with genre elements and contains less explicit carnage than typical zombie pictures. Funding included support from the Adelaide Film Festival and the film premiered at SXSW. The tone avoids excessive self-seriousness while commenting on political and military incompetence.
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