Zombie movies arguably have saturated the horror landscape in the years since the late George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead debuted, but films like Maggie, Zombieland, and Warm Bodies have shown what directors can do with zombies by taking off-kilter approaches to the material — whether those approaches are dramatic or comedic.
One other thing worth noting about Cargo is that it is the latest in a long line of zombie movies to break from genre norms over the course of the last decade.
Cargo seems to nestle comfortably into that concept by offering up a personal story about a father trying to keep his daughter alive, and hopefully, it will become one of the horror movies to watch out for this year.