Scare-a-Thon 2021 - Day 11: World War Z (2013)

  Tyler told me yesterday that he doesn't consider "fast zombies" to be real zombies.  It's Romero or nothing, as far as he's concerned.  So now we know who's going to survive a zombie apocalypse.  

Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is reinstated to his previous position of investigator for the United Nations after a mysterious plague breaks out, infecting most of the world, and turning the bitten into raging zombies.  He travels across the ravaged world, looking for a source, a patient zero, that will help them find a cure.

This bears almost no resemblance to the book it's based on and that's okay.   It also hits a little differently when you're watching it from inside a pandemic that has killed over 4.5 million people worldwide as of now.  These zombies just try to bite you, not spam your Facebook with stupid anti-vaccine articles written by Russian spambots.  I guess that's an idea for the sequel.

It's not a great zombie movie.  It owes a lot to Contagion and Outbreak more than 28 Days Later.  If that's your thing, give it a shot.  I couldn't find it streaming anywhere but my phone says it's currently on Paramount+.  I got it on disc from Netflix.