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Undead redcoats of Betaal

TVUndead2010 to today

Betaal is an Indian Netflix series in which a tunnelling operation releases a battalion of undead colonial soldiers. It ties the zombie to the history of British rule in India. Reviewers liked the idea more than the execution.1

Battle it
First appeared
2020
Released 2020
Source work
Betaal (2020)
Patrick Graham (Netflix, Blumhouse, Red Chillies)
Made in
India
What causes it
Never explained
The series page gives no mechanism; a tunnelling operation unleashes them.

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2020

Released 2020

field notes

What the sources say

1

They are East India Company soldiers from the 1857 rebellion, led by a British lieutenant colonel1

2

A paramilitary squad clearing land for development sets them free1

3

A four-episode Hindi-language series1

4

A scholar reads the outbreak as a critique of unregulated capitalism1

5

Reviews were generally negative1

Sources

  1. Betaal - Wikipedia

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