A father's love for his daughter collides with a world overrun by the undead in Resident Dead, a 2026 horror-thriller from director Ryan Ebert.
What is Resident Dead about?
Somewhere past the edge of a quarantine line, a man has kept his daughter alive since the outbreak turned her into something he refuses to give up on. When a stranger offers a cure in exchange for one delivery, he agrees without asking too many questions. The package rides in the passenger seat like a third traveler, sealed and silent, while packs of the infected close in from every direction. The rules are simple and unforgiving: reach the destination, do not open the box, and do not fail. Each new stretch of road strips away another layer of certainty about who actually benefits if he succeeds. Resident Dead leans on that tension between a father's desperation and a plan built by people he has never met, letting the horror-thriller mechanics of chases and close calls carry a story that is really about how far a parent will go before asking what he is carrying.
About the cast
John Wells anchors the film as the father driving toward a cure he may never see delivered, with Thandiwe McMillan, Hamid-Reza Benjamin Thompson, Jarod Brock, Isabel Ramirez, Sai Piña, Chase Breithoff, and Rob Eubanks filling out the survivors and strangers he meets along the way.
Context & significance
Resident Dead is a United States production released in 2026, arriving in a crowded lane of post-outbreak thrillers that trade large-scale devastation for a single, ticking errand. Ryan Ebert directs the film with an emphasis on momentum: fewer stationary sieges, more forward motion, and a cargo that matters more than the horde chasing it.
Watching Resident Dead on Ktime
Resident Dead streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the father's cross-country delivery in Farsi or with the original English track subtitled. A free K-Time account is all that is needed to start watching; the film's page itself is open to browse before signing in.