News We Bury the Dead We Bury the Dead Trailer Sees Daisy Ridley Face a Dark Future (and Zombies) Sorry about your zombie problem, Tasmania. By Molly Templeton | Published on October 3, 2025 Screenshot: Vertical Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Vertical Everyone has their own take on what makes zombies extra scary. Maybe they go fast; maybe they seem clever. Maybe there are just so goddamn many of them. But the premise of We Bury the Dead somehow tweaks me more than a lot of other zombie tales: You put a whole bunch of military whatnot among the dead, and I get doubly tense. Soldiers and zombies? How fast can I run the other direction? The synopsis released with the trailer for the film says very little, but an early Variety review notes that this zombie catastrophe begins after “the United States accidentally deploys an experimental weapon of mass destruction off Australia’s southern coast. The large-scale EMP has caused up to half a million people to drop dead by shutting down their brains — only for reasons unknown, some of them come ‘back online,’ devoid of any personality, but with their base instincts intact.” Terrifying concept? Terrifying concept. (Also, by “southern coast,” they apparently mean Tasmania, which I really thought would be relatively safe after the end of the world. Oopsie.) In the trailer, you can see a woman insisting that those who have come back online are no threat. You can also see that she’s absolutely lying. Daisy Ridley (The Force Awakens) stars as a woman searching for her missing husband—and hoping to find him alive. She finds a lot of other things in the course of this trailer, and none of them are nice. I don’t exactly expect a happy ending here, but I hope she gets some closure. We Bury the Dead is written and directed by Zak Hilditch, whose previous films include the Netflix movies Rattlesnake and 1922. Along with Ridley, it stars Brenton Thwaites (Titans’ Dick Grayson) and Mark Coles Smith (Apple Cider Vinegar). It’s in theaters January 6, 2026.[end-mark] The post <i>We Bury the Dead</i> Trailer Sees Daisy Ridley Face a Dark Future (and Zombies) appeared first on Reactor.