Daisy Ridley Zombie Thriller 'We Bury the Dead'

Daisy Ridley headlines Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the Dead, a post-apocalyptic zombie thriller that premiered at SXSW 2025 and currently holds an 89% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film follows Ava, who joins a body-retrieval unit after a catastrophic American military experiment in Tasmania and searches for her missing husband as corpses rise and grow increasingly violent. Co-stars include Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith and Matt Whelan, and Hilditch—whose credits include Netflix’s 1922—directed. A teaser emphasizes a grief-driven tone and pulse-pounding horror sequences. The film opens in Australia and New Zealand on October 9, 2025, and will be released in U.S. theaters on January 2, 2026 via Vertical Entertainment.