We Bury the Dead review: An acoustic cover of 28 Years Later

January isn’t quite as much of a movie wasteland as it was 20 years ago. January 2026, for example, sees the mid-month release of a highly anticipated28 Years Later sequel, and later in the month, there’s a new Sam Raimi thriller starring Rachel McAdams. But when the first Friday in January falls especially early in the month, as it does this year, that weekend remains relatively barren. It’s only appropriate, then, that one of the very few new movies releasing on Jan. 2 is We Bury the Dead, a horror drama that plays a bit like an acoustic cover of a 28 Days Later-style zombie-sociology thriller.