US EditionMovie Review: Daisy Ridley Holds Onto Hope in the Zombie Thriller ‘We Bury the Dead’
Daisy Ridley plays Ava, who joins a body retrieval unit in Tasmania after a U.S. military experiment kills many and causes the dead to hunt the living.
- Friday, Vertical releases We Bury the Dead in theaters as an R-rated film starring Daisy Ridley as Ava Newman, who searches Tasmania for husband Mitch after a disaster killing 500,000 people.
- The film shows a U.S. military test called 'the pulse' failing and creating quarantine zones in Tasmania, where some dead begin 'coming back' and hunt the living.
- Ava Newman joins the Body Retrieval Unit and heads into the forbidden south to search for Mitch in Woodridge, teaming with volunteer Clay.
- Critics judge the film more as a character study than a conventional zombie thriller, awarding Two and a half stars out of four and noting a finale that acts as a bizarre setup.
- The film frames its BRU procedural and zombie metaphor as a fresh angle, with Zak Hilditch relying on Steve Annis's stark visuals and Chris Clark and Duncan Campbell's unsettling soundscape.
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‘We Bury the Dead’ review: Ridley stars in zombie drama with fading pulse
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Interview: Daisy Ridley & Brenton Thwaites on the Zombie Drama of 'We Bury the Dead'
In the chaotic world of zombie cinema, We Bury the Dead dares to turn down the volume. Written and directed by Zak Hilditch (These Final Hours), the survival thriller trades the usual cacophony of screeching hordes for a chilling, meditative quiet. Set in the aftermath of a catastrophic military experiment in Tasmania, the film follows Ava Newman (Daisy Ridley), a desperate woman who joins a “body retrieval unit” to find her missing husband. But…
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