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The Prime Video top has been captured by a brand-new apocalyptic zombie movie. The zombie genre continues to be highly popular, with many TV shows and movies continuing the post-apocalyptic survival trend.

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End is one of the recently released zombie films, and it's become an instant streaming hit on Prime Video. The movie held its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival on Oct. 5, followed by a wide release on Prime Video on Oct. 31. It didn't take long for the film to become extremely successful, reaching No. 1 on the platform, per FlixPatrol, and ranking eighth on Reelgood's Top 10 movie charts for the week between Nov. 7 and 13 on all streaming platforms.

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The new zombie movie is in the Spanish language, and it has...

Stars: Francisco Ortiz, Marta Poveda, Yuri Mykhaylychenko, José María Yazpik | Written by Ángel Agudo | Directed by Carles Torrens

Spain has given us some masterful films about the walking dead over the years, including The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Tombs of the Blind Dead and its sequels, and more recently the Rec franchise. Now we have Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (Apocalypse Z: El Principio del Fin) based on the first book of novelist Manel Loureiro’s Apocalypse Z trilogy about a cat-loving lawyer’s struggle to survive a world overrun by zombies.

A year after losing his wife in a Christmas Eve car crash, Manel still hasn’t recovered mentally. He lives alone with his cat Lúculo and ignores the news broadcast on his television about a fast spreading pandemic, the Tsj Virus, that’s throwing the world into chaos.

His sister Belen and her husband are...

“Finisterrae” the film debut of the director of the electronic music festival “Sónar”, Sergio Caballero, was awarded with the top prize at the International Rotterdam Film Festival. The film, produced by the prolific and off-beat Luis Miñarro whose name is attached to award-winning films such as “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” and “La Mosquitera”. Interpreted by the unknown actors Pau Nubiola, Pavel Lukiyanoy, Santi Serra and Yuri Mykhaylychenko, this tells the story of two ghosts that fed up with travelling througt the shadowlands decide to make the “way of Santiago” till the end of the world called “Finisterrae” to once there begin a short life of earthly existence between the living. The experimental film was approached by filming and obtaining images first, and then creating the script afterwards, before finally adding the dialogues which remind us to another Spanish produced film by Luis Miñarro, “Aita” by José Maria de Orbe,...