This chapter analyses Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die (2019) as a deliberate attempt to reconfigure the zombie trope. Rather than the frenzied attackers seen in films like 28 Days Later (2002) and World War Z (2013), Jarmusch revisits the slow, shambling figures of George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead (1968), a choice that both returns to the genre’s roots and subverts its current conventions. The director doesn’t blame the monsters for the apocalypse. Instead, he uses the zombie as a metaphor for our inert response to climate change, with no heroes to save the day. The film’s slow cinema aesthetic, coupled with its reflexive commentary, directly challenges Hollywood’s action-focused approach to apocalyptic narratives. By presenting a catastrophe that unfolds in slow motion and is met with a lack of urgency, The Dead Don’t Die becomes Jarmusch’s angriest film to date, effectively critiquing our “doomsday fatigue” and highlighting the zombie’s continued potential for adaptation as an empty vessel capable of reflecting our most pressing concerns and fears.