Movie Review: We Bury the Dead


The new movie “We Bury the Dead”, has a logline on IMDB that reads: “After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. Ava searches for her missing husband, but what she finds is far more terrifying.”

This movie will likely rank as one of the most boring and innocuous zombie movies of all time. Yes, this is yet another zombie movie; however, this one has an amazingly low count of violent zombie scenes or any zombie scenes, after a woman, Ava, played by Daisy Ridley, arrives in New Zealand, the site of this military accident, and tries to find her husband Mitch, played by Matt Whelan with the help of another man, Clay, played by Brenton Thwaites.

The rest of this film is nothing more than an unexpectedly long and boring trek with Ava and Clay through New Zealand to travel 300 miles south to the site of the resort where Ava’s husband was staying. The majority of the victims of this military accident are dead, but a small percentage of the victims become alive and, for reasons unknown, cause only very minor incidents as Clay and Ava travel south. I remember wondering at the time, is this a zombie movie or a travelogue of New Zealand? Also, this movie is so boring it was hard to believe this could ever be considered an action movie, or even a drama.

The high Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this bad movie are 84%, which is as crazy as this bad zombie movie. The audience rating is a more accurate 49%. Before it’s too late, the producer should change the title from “We Bury the Dead” to “We Bury this Movie”. This one is a huge miss and receives a 10% rating.