That’s right, folks: it may be a horror comedy, but it’s still going to get under your skin – especially during the age of Covid-19. Shaun and his best friend team up to save his mum and girlfriend (plus his girlfriend’s irritating roommates) from a hoard of flesh-eating zombies, but they also have to work hard to avoid becoming infected themselves.

Sure, there are plenty of LOL moments, but there’s a few scenes near the end which are guaranteed to make even the stoniest-hearted among you cry actual tears.

Viral

In a cattle-ranching town in Brazil’s countryside, adolescents panic when they are threatened by the outbreak of an epidemic, a contagious infection transmitted by kissing. In a contemporary and dark plot, the series portrays the desires of digitally connected youth within a physical reality filled with fear and mistrust.

The Platform

The Platform (which we have already written about extensively) focuses on a collection of prisoners in a stacked prison where the only food available to inmates is the leftovers of those people above them.

Of course, this doesn’t bode well for prisoners in the lower levels: some starve to death, some brutally attack their fellow inmates in order to get their hands on the food they so desperately need, and some partake in a little (un)healthy cannibalism.

Does this sound a little like the panic-buying situation down your local supermarket yet? Because it does to us.

Pandemic horror films: 17 scary movies that hit a little too close to home right now