Director: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell
Grandma has been kidnapped, rent is overdue, and the going rate for a favor from the undead is whatever spare cash three broke friends can scrape together. "We Are Zombies" takes the shuffling horror staple and turns it into cheap labor, black-market pets, and a punchline machine.
What is We Are Zombies about?
In an unnamed city, a viral outbreak did not turn the infected into flesh-eating monsters but into the living-impaired: slow, mostly harmless zombies who now shuffle through daily life as an underclass exploited for odd jobs and cheap entertainment. Freddy, Maximilian, and Chuck run a small side hustle wrangling and selling zombies to whoever will pay, until their own grandmother is snatched by a shady operation with much bigger ambitions for the undead workforce. To get her back, the trio has to go up against small-time hustlers and a corporation looking to monetize the living-impaired on an industrial scale, all while barely holding their own crumbling finances together. The film treats its premise less as a metaphor to be taken seriously and more as an excuse for escalating absurdity.
Cast & crew
Alexandre Nachi, Derek Johns, and Megan Peta Hill play the three friends whose money troubles kick off the plot, trading rapid-fire banter that keeps the tone closer to a heist comedy than straight horror. Clare Coulter appears as the kidnapped grandmother whose rescue drives the group into increasingly reckless territory. The film comes from director trio François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, previously known for genre mashups that lean into practical effects and dark comic timing.
Context & significance
"We Are Zombies" arrived in 2024 as a lean, 80-minute genre entry that leans hard into its low-fantasy premise of zombies as a marginalized labor class rather than a existential threat. Its Canadian-French production roots show in its scrappy, DIY visual style, closer to the directors' earlier splatter-comedy work than to big-budget zombie franchises, and the short runtime keeps the joke-to-scene ratio high throughout.
Where & how to watch
"We Are Zombies" is available on K-Time with a free account login, on a service built around a Farsi-language interface for Persian-speaking audiences. This title includes Persian dubbing; no Persian subtitle track is currently attached.