World War Z (2006)

Brooks formats his global zombie apocalypse as an official oral history, mimicking the clinical detachment of United Nations interviewers and military debriefs. The comedy arises from devastating bureaucratic absurdity: celebrity panic bunkers, snake-oil pharmaceutical cures and catastrophic military blunders caused by peacetime posturing. But the surrounding apocalypse is terrifying, bleak and viscerally gory, from claustrophobic subterranean tunnel fighting to cannibalism and the total collapse of civilisation. The political satire only sharpens the horror.