You can leave the island. But the island doesn’t leave you
The Walking Dead 2: Dead City (2025) continues the grim and gripping saga of survival in the undead apocalypse, pushing the iconic franchise into even darker, more dangerous territory. This sequel to the 2023 spin-off Dead City reunites fan-favorites Negan and Maggie, but this time, the ruins of Manhattan are only the beginning.
Months after the explosive events of the first Dead City, the island is quieter—too quiet. The walkers have grown strangely dormant, clustering around one specific sector of the city where no one dares to go. Whispers speak of a new threat: not just a leader, but a collective—a hive-mind of infected survivors calling themselves The Choir, who believe the virus is evolution, and they are its voice.
Maggie, still searching for her son Hershel—who may or may not be among the Choir—must team up with a reluctant and increasingly unhinged Negan, whose past crimes now haunt him in literal and undead ways. Their fragile alliance is tested as they descend into underground tunnels, collapsed skyscrapers, and bio-contaminated safe zones, pursued not only by walkers, but by enemies who still bleed.
As the line between monster and man continues to blur, Dead City 2 explores the psychological toll of survival: What happens when you’ve outlived hope? When every choice is a betrayal? And when the only way to save the people you love… is to become the thing you once feared?
Visually brutal and emotionally raw, the film blends claustrophobic horror with pulse-pounding urban warfare—bringing new mutations, moral choices, and impossible sacrifices to a world where the dead still walk, and the living must outrun them—and themselves.
