Director: Carles Torrens
When a rabies-like outbreak tears through the world outside his door, one man's isolation ends the moment he's forced to step back into it.
What is Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End about?
Manel has been hiding out, riding out an infection that spreads through bite and blood and turns the infected violent and feral. His shelter can only hold for so long, and once it fails he has no choice but to go looking for a way forward. What he finds isn't safety so much as company: a handful of strangers, each with their own reasons for still being alive, who end up traveling together because splitting up is worse than the alternative. Director Carles Torrens sets the story in a Spain overrun rather than a single contained location, giving the film room to shift terrain and stakes as Manel's group pushes through hostile territory. The horror leans practical and grounded, more concerned with what a small group does under sustained threat than with any single jump scare.
Cast & crew
Francisco Ortiz carries the film as Manel, opposite José María Yázpik, Berta Vázquez, Marta Poveda, Iria del Río, Yuri Mykhaylychenko, Jesús Lloveras, and Ali Boulabiar as the traveling companions he picks up along the way, giving the group dynamic real texture as trust forms and frays under pressure.
Context & significance
Released in 2024 and directed by Carles Torrens, this Spanish sci-fi thriller runs 112 minutes and holds a 6.1 rating on IMDb. It arrives as part of a wider run of outbreak fiction but distinguishes itself by staying close to a small ensemble rather than widening out to a national-scale disaster narrative.
Where & how to watch
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the tension of Manel's journey comes through clearly for Farsi-speaking audiences. This page is open to browse without logging in; streaming the film itself requires a K-Time account, built with the Persian-speaking diaspora in mind.