Overview
- Daisy Ridley stars as Ava, who enters a military-controlled quarantine zone to search for her missing husband after a catastrophic weapons disaster.
- Written and directed by Zak Hilditch, the film runs 95 minutes and features Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith, and Matt Whelan.
- The Motion Picture Association rates the Vertical release R for strong violent content, brief drug use, language, and gore.
- The film’s undead are depicted as evolving into faster and more coordinated threats as official containment messaging reads as control.
- In a Collider interview, Ridley described the fast-charging zombies as genuinely frightening despite choreography, reflecting the movie’s physical intensity.