Cargo

Cargo (2017) is an Australian horror drama you can watch online on iFILM, with Martin Freeman in the lead. A pandemic has turned the outback into hunting ground. Andy gets bitten. The clock reads 48 hours.

What follows is not a fight for survival but a race to hand off an infant daughter before the infection finishes the job. Andy treks across scorched bushland with the baby strapped to his back, far from any help, and falls in with a young Indigenous girl who reads the country far better than he ever could. Directors Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling expanded their own short film, and the result bends the zombie genre into a quiet story about fatherhood and what a person leaves behind.

Forget screaming crowds and frantic chases. This is mostly a road, a child, and a countdown. Veteran Australian actor David Gulpilil appears in support. Stream Cargo (2017) online on iFILM.