It’s a must to admire anybody keen to take a seat down and make a zombie movie. Over the previous 20 years or so, the zombie style has been carried out in so some ways, by so many alternative folks, with such different outcomes, you’d suppose we’ve seen all of it. The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Useless, 28 Days Later, Zombieland, World Struggle Z, simply zombies after zombies, after which, guess what? Extra zombies.
So, to truly make and launch a brand new zombie film now, there’s received to be a brand new spin. One thing that makes you stand aside from the remaining. And, for writer-director Zak Hilditch, it seems he has that. His new movie, We Bury the Useless, opens on January 2, 2026, and moreover having Star Wars icon Daisy Ridley within the lead function—already a powerful begin—he’s envisioned a world the place zombies exist, however they aren’t what we’re used to.
We noticed a teaser trailer for the movie a few weeks bacokay, however now, right here’s an extended, extra revealing, and action-packed take a look at We Bury the Useless.
So, a number of issues to say right here. Probably the most putting factor is that, on this world, whereas an enormous catastrophe did appear to wipe out most people on Earth, most of them are literally simply useless. Nevertheless, the few that aren’t useless, the few that return from the useless, the zombies, achieve this for a cause. The trailer says they’ve unfinished enterprise. The press launch says, “the useless don’t simply rise—they hunt.” And, because the hunt goes on, the creatures get sooner and extra harmful.
We like that. It’s simply sufficient of a twist to present you one thing new within the zombie style but additionally maintain all these basic zombie tropes intact. Add to that the extra emotional core of the story of a girl looking for her husband, and, nicely, this could be a stable solution to ring in 2026.
Co-starring Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean 5), We Bury the Useless opens January 2.
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