Bodies that refuse to stay buried drive the tension in "We Bury the," a 2026 horror-thriller set in the aftermath of a military catastrophe.
What is We Bury the about?
Following a disastrous military operation, the dead do not simply lie still — they rise, and officials rush to calm public fear by insisting the reanimated are slow and harmless. That reassurance offers a sliver of hope to families desperate for any sign their loved ones might still be reachable. Ava is one of them, pushing past checkpoints into a sealed quarantine zone to search for her missing husband. What she finds inside contradicts every official statement: the risen grow faster, angrier, and far more dangerous with each hour that passes, turning her search into a race against a threat the authorities refuse to name honestly. Director Zak Hilditch frames the outbreak less as a monster movie and more as a story about institutional denial colliding with one person's refusal to stop looking, with the quarantine zone itself becoming the film's central pressure point.
About the cast
Daisy Ridley leads as Ava, carrying the film's emotional core through a landscape that keeps offering false comfort, with Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith, and Matt Whelan filling out a cast caught between military reassurance and the escalating truth on the ground.
Context & significance
A co-production between Australia and the United States, the film arrives in 2026 as part of a wave of outbreak thrillers that use official misinformation as the real threat, with the quarantine setting doubling as a comment on how crises get managed and mismanaged in public.
Watching We Bury the on Ktime
"We Bury the" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, giving Persian-speaking viewers a native-language option; log into a K-Time account to stream, while the title page itself can be read without signing in.