The Taxi Dead
2020 · 15m
Directed by Simon Lahm
Genres: action, horror, thriller
Paul tries to survive a zombie apocalypse in Bavaria alongside taxi driver Karl, fighting off attacks while racing to reach his waiting girlfriend.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Zombie apocalypse in Bavaria with a taxi driver—sure, fine, except it's *competent* genre exercise, which means it's exactly the kind of thing everyone else would pick and I'd rather watch paint dry in a Bavarian basement.
A formally sound thriller that understands its place in the zombie lineage, though it neither interrogates nor elevates the tradition—solid craft in service of familiar momentum.
The decision to anchor the whole thing through the taxi driver's perspective—that working-class witness to chaos, stuck in his vehicle, radio crackling—is what transforms a standard survival premise into something that actually breathes.