# S.O.Z: Soldiers or Zombies (2021)

> A drug lord's escape collides with a military experiment gone wrong, and the resulting zombie outbreak drags soldiers, police and cartel men into a fight for human survival.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/80452

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 31 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: horror, action, science fiction
- Created by: Nicolás Entel, Miguel Tejada-Flores
- Network: Prime Video
- Cast: Adria Morales, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Nery Arredondo, Horacio García Rojas, Fátima Molina
- TMDB rating: 5.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7636244/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: graphic
- Tone: grim, violent, propulsive, bleak, tense

## What critics say

Critics found the Spanish zombie-war series a derivative genre outing whose action set pieces outweigh its thin writing and uneven execution.

## Synopsis

S.O.Z.: Soldiers or Zombies is a Spanish-language zombie action thriller created by Nicolás Entel and Miguel Tejada-Flores for Prime Video. Drug lord Alonso Marroquín escapes from a Mexican prison hoping to vanish, but a secret military experiment goes wrong and infects an elite police unit that has been hunting him, unleashing a new kind of zombie. Officers, soldiers and cartel gunmen are forced into uneasy alliances as the infected converge on the criminal hideout. The engine of the series is a desperate scramble for survival, built from tense standoffs, gunfights and shifting loyalties between enemies who must cooperate. Told across a single eight-episode season of brisk, half-hour installments, it plays as one continuing battle rather than a case-of-the-week format. Its tone is grim, violent and propulsive, with a bleak, dread-filled atmosphere and a constant sense of betrayal. Set in contemporary Mexico, it sits alongside The Walking Dead and Kingdom for fans of outbreak horror, and alongside Money Heist for its Spanish-language crime energy.

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