The London Australian Film Society and the Foundation for Australian and New Zealand Arts (FANZA) present the 2nd annual ANZ Film Festival at Finsbury Park Picturehouse, on the weekend between Australia Day and Waitangi Day.
We round out our Saturday line-up with a special preview (and London premiere!) of Zak Hilditch’s dystopian zombie thriller, WE BURY THE DEAD. Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stars as a woman desperately searching for her husband in the aftermath of a catastrophic military experiment in Hobart, Tasmania. Hoping to find him alive, she joins a “body retrieval unit”, but her search takes a chilling turn when the corpses she’s burying start showing signs of life.
Written and directed by Zak Hilditch (These Final Hours, 1922), this gripping thriller features a stellar supporting cast, including Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Matt Whelan (Narcos) and Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin).
Screened ahead of its digital release from Signature Entertainment, this might be your only chance to catch it on the big screen in London.
Australian and New Zealand snacks, sweets & gifts will be on sale, and a raffle will take place before the screening.
With thanks to Signature Entertainment.
REVIEWS
“Doing something new with zombies has to be a little challenging, but Hilditch, who wrote and directed, manages it…What We Bury the Dead
does really well is remind us that the zombies were once-alive. They are someone’s mother, child, husband.”
Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com
“We Bury the Dead
is most haunting when it gestures at a world dazed with trauma and explores a path to personal closure through collective efforts.”
Natalia Winkelman, New York Times
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