Retired UN advisor Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) knows a warzone when he sees one - he just wasn't expecting it on home soil. But when the Philly traffic jam he's sitting in is overrun by military, it quickly becomes clear they are under attack... from zombies. Scrambling to get his wife and girls to safety, Gerry makes it to New Jersey, where they are extracted by the Deputy Secretary General and taken to an offshore safe zone. There Gerry learns that a global pandemic of zombies has wiped out billions of lives and that, in exchange for the ongoing protection of his family, he must travel to Asia to find the source of the virus no matter what the cost.
Based on the 2006 novel by Max Brooks, World War Z is a brilliantly switched-on zombie thriller from Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster. Filmed across Europe over two years, the film was plagued by reshoot rumour-mongering but you wouldn't know it from watching this polished box office smash (it made more than $530 million).
Injecting fresh blood back into a stagnating zombie sub-genre, the film is cleverly cast, hauntingly scored and feverishly tense, delivering blockbuster satisfaction from the first bite.
World War Z is a Film programme that first aired in 2013 and has been classified a 15 certificate.
