10 Great Zombie Horror Movies With A Lone Protagonist

With the fast-moving zombies of World War Z, the eerie silence of A Quiet Place, and the Parisian setting of Ratatouille, 2018's The Night Eats the World is quite the combination.

This French-language movie is about Sam, a young musician who awakes one day to find that his beloved city has been overrun with smelly, vicious monsters. There's a joke to be made about Paris in there somewhere, but we're better than that.

Sam barricades himself in an apartment building and tries to survive not only against the undead, but also his slowly-spiralling mental health. He battles loneliness, depression, and suicidal thoughts while cooped up, as he waits for a rescue that may never come.

The young man's only companions are a woman named Sarah (who joins him right at the end of the film), and an elderly, zombified man that Sam keeps caged up. He's called Alfred.

While the zombies might be the obvious villain of this movie, it's isolation that we should be most afraid of. The Night Eats the World is an allegory for those on the fringes of society, and what happens to their psyche when abandonment leads to hopelessness.