Daisy Ridley in First Look Teaser for ‘We Bury The Dead’ Zombie Thriller
by Alex Billington
October 1, 2025
Source: YouTube
“I can assure you – you have nothing to fear.” Vertical has unveiled a teaser trailer for a horror thriller film titled We Bury The Dead, made by genre filmmaker Zak Hilditch from Australia. This already premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival earlier in the year to superb reviews – though they’ve now scheduled it for release in January 2026 right after the New Year. Setting this up to be a chilling way to kick off 2026 with some unsettling cinema. After a catastrophic military disaster in Tasmania leaves many people gone from a disease, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. Ava searches for her missing husband among the dead, but what she finds is far more terrifying. Ava joins a “body retrieval unit,” but her search takes a chilling turn when the corpses she’s burying start showing signs of life. Starring Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Matt Whelan, Chloe Hurst, Kym Jackson, & Mark Coles Smith. It’s a refreshing new entry in the zombie subgenre, with reviews saying it delivers “a few bursts of genuine scares in the process and an awe-inducing sense of scale.” This is a great teaser! I’ve seen enough – I’m sold & will watch. Horror fans – do not miss it.
Here’s the first look teaser for Zak Hilditch’s horror film We Bury The Dead, from Vertical’s YouTube:
Via SXSW: “From acclaimed writer/director Zak Hilditch, We Bury The Dead is a gripping and emotional thriller set after a military experiment decimates the people of Tasmania. Daisy Ridley stars as Ava, a desperate woman who joins a “body retrieval unit” in the hopes of finding her husband alive. Ava’s search takes a chilling turn, however, when the corpses she’s burying start showing signs of life… As she journeys to the south of Tasmania in search of her husband, Ava is forced to confront the undead — and make peace with her own unfinished business.” We Bury The Dead is written and directed by American filmmaker Zak Hilditch, director of the films The Actress, Plum Role, The Toll, These Final Hours, 1922, Rattlesnake, plus other shorts. Produced by Kelvin Munro, Grant Sputore, Ross Dinerstein, Joshua Harris, Mark Fasano. This initially premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, and will next screen at the Sitges Film Festival. Vertical releases Hilditch’s We Bury The Dead in select US theaters starting January 2nd, 2026.
