Daisy Ridley’s New Zombie Movie Sets Hulu Streaming Release Date

A 2026 zombie film starring Daisy Ridley finally has a Hulu streaming release date set for next month. The R-rated movie is a slow-burning horror that follows a young woman as she joins the military in the hope of finding her husband on a zombie-infested island.

We Bury the Dead debuts on streaming in May

We Bury the Dead will premiere on Hulu on Friday, May 8, 2026, per the streamer’s schedule.

Australian filmmaker Zak Hilditch wrote and directed the film. Kelvin Munro, Grant Sputore, Ross Dinerstein, Joshua Harris, and Mark Fasano served as the producers.

The film takes place in the aftermath of a U.S. military experiment that goes wrong. After they accidentally detonate a weapon, the people on a nearby island become brain-dead. Slowly, some of the brain-dead people regain their motor function and turn deadly, killing anyone in sight. Meanwhile, a physiotherapist named Ava joins the military’s body retrieval unit to find her missing husband, Mitch, who was on a business trip near the affected area.

Interestingly, Hilditch began writing the script as a story of grief. “We Bury the Dead started as an exploration of grief, following the death of my mother, dealing with the trauma of that and finding a way to move through it,” the director told ABC. “I never in a million years thought that, by the end of writing the screenplay, I would have infused it with zombies. But this notion of unfinished business wouldn’t leave me alone,” he added.

We Bury the Dead’s cast includes Daisy Ridley as Ava, Brenton Thwaites as Clay, Mark Coles Smith as Riley, Matt Whelan as Mitch, and Kym Jackson as Lt. Wilkie, among others.

The film premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival. It was followed by a limited theatrical release in the United States earlier this year on January 2, 2026, by Vertical (formerly Vertical Entertainment). Subsequently, Umbrella Entertainment released the film in Australia and New Zealand a month later, on February 5.

Upon its release, the reviews were pretty divisive. Currently, on Rotten Tomatoes, the critic approval rating is an impressive 88%, while users gave it an average rating of 46%. Meanwhile, the critic score on Metacritic is 61, and the user score is 5.1. Commercially, the film went on to earn $3.8 million globally (via Box Office Mojo). However, there is very little official information about its budget.

Source: Comingsoon.net