6 Zombie Movies With a Lone Protagonist

Sometimes you just have to face the hordes alone

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Here is a list of movies that deal with the zombie apocalypse but focus on a single person going it alone. Where loneliness is just as much of an antagonist as the zombies.

Two caveats:

I don’t want to deal with the definitions of the undead vs the infected vs brain-eating emaciated zombie vampires. If it walks like a zombie, groans like a zombie, and stinks like a zombie, it’s a zombie, okay?

There are very few movies with a person entirely alone the whole time. Variety of conflict comes from meeting other survivors. So, in this article, I am looking at protagonists who are effectively alone for a large chunk of the runtime.

1. Cargo

Cargo (2017)

Technically, the protagonist is never alone, as he is carrying a baby across Australia in the grip of a zombie apocalypse. But it is a lonely journey where he must find a safe haven for his precious cargo.

2. The Night Eats the World