I’m a big fan of the zombie genre, so when this short film popped up on my X feed, I was intrigued. The poster simply described it as the best short film he’d seen in years, so I hit play.
Three and a half minutes later, I was stunned by what I’d seen, not least because it wasn’t produced by a giant Hollywood studio, but generated by AI. In fact, the person who posted it on X is the CEO of an AI video production company and was so impressed that he’s trying to track down the person responsible for creating it. From what I can gather, it was first posted on the Chinese video hosting site, Bilibili, and the film clearly shows that it was created using Google’s Nano Banana AI image generation and other tools. It’s not pretending to be anything other than AI, which is very refreshing. In fact, it reminded me of the 2014 trailer for the Dead Island 2 video game and could well have been inspired by it.


