Apocalypse Z: New World, released in Spain as Apocalipsis Z: Nuevo Mundo, is a 2026 Spanish zombie action film directed by Carles Torrens, written by Ángel Agudo, and based on the novels by Manel Loureiro. It runs 119 minutes, premiered at the Sitges Film Festival, and arrived on Prime Video on 30 October 2026. It is a sequel to Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End from 2024, though it follows an entirely new protagonist and functions as a standalone.

This was.

Something.

It existed.

I. Um.

Let me come at this from a different direction, because I genuinely struggled to assemble a coherent thought about this film on first attempt.

You guys ever watch Shaun of the Dead? That is a good movie. Genuinely, properly good, sitting at around ninety-two percent with critics and deserving all of it.

World War Z? Also better than this. Not close.

Go and watch one of those instead. Do not do this to yourself.

Now, having done some reading afterwards to establish whether the problem was in fact me, I can report that reviews on this are genuinely divided, which I did not expect.

There is a contingent who found it stylish, tense and pulse-pounding, and who praised the look of it. One called it polished and effective nearly all the way through. Several reviewers noted the production values are perfectly solid.

But the other half of the room was saying precisely what I was feeling while watching. The words that recur across those reviews are unmemorable, generic, and lacking personality or depth of its own.

And one reviewer articulated the problem better than I managed in my own notes, writing that this is a zombie movie that wants to be bigger and ends up feeling much smaller. That is the entire film in a single sentence, and I wish I had got there first.

Another, on Letterboxd, wrote that one of their biggest flaws is that they will watch almost any zombie movie, before concluding, well, this ain’t it. That one landed.

Some context I did not have going in, and which makes the whole thing stranger. The first film, Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, was the most watched international original film in Prime Video’s entire history until Your Fault overtook it. So this is not a small release that slipped out. This is a sequel to a genuine streaming phenomenon, from Nostromo Pictures, with a Sitges premiere behind it.