The Number One Horror Movie On Netflix Is A Zombie Epic Worth Revisiting: “Watching this movie again is traumatic”
Zombie movies used to be big. While the subgenre has slowed to an undead crawl in recent years, relegated to both streamers and cable television series, there used to be a time when cinema’s zombies sought after both brains and cash. Now they’re back, and they’re taking over Netflix.
Marc Foster’s World War Z, adapted from Max Brook’s 2006 novel of the same name, was among the last of the blockbuster undead. This week, it’s the number-one horror film on Netflix.
In Forster’s Film, Brad Pitt’s “U.N. employee races against time and fate as he travels the world trying to stop the spread of a deadly zombie pandemic.” While the film had a notoriously troubled production, including considerable reshoots in its final act amid a ballooning budget, there’s no denying the sheer legacy of the zombie epic. These undead were fast, the scale was huge, and a plethora of A-list talent had to contend with their growing numbers. That scene of the undead scaling the wall in Jerusalem is firmly burned into my mind in the best way.
Suppositionally, some international bans on zombie movies (yes, that’s real) likely killed the sequel from the get, though fans have been dying to revisit this mid-aughts gem. Check out what they’re saying below.
Are you a fan of World War Z? Should zombies writ large make a comeback? What was the most incredulous stunt Brad Pitt pulled in the movie (spoiler: it’s surviving that plane crash). Let me know over on Twitter @ChadisCollins.
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