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Eidul Azha, by its nature, has elements of flesh and blood as part of the festivities. This year, however, Fahad Mustafa and Mehwish Hayat are taking that up several notches with their latest movie Zombeid.

The trailer for the film — which claims to be Pakistan’s first zombie thriller — dropped on Monday, showing a mix of guts, gore and some good old Pakistani humour.

From what we can decipher, the movie is set in Karachi, with Mustafa shown as a mixed martial artist and Hayat as his romantic interest. A virus outbreak starts at the venue of one of Mustafa’s cage matches — on the night before Eid no less — with Hayat in attendance.

The pair along with a number of hapless civilians must then try to survive until help is sent by authorities who initially refuse to believe any of it is even real — there’s a scene where a visibly annoyed cop hears about it and exclaims “Zumbees? Everyone’s up for a joke on Chand Raat”.

The government does get involved later and what follows can only be described as a mashup of some classic 80s action movies.

Mustafa, dressed in a sleeveless tank top with a bandana tied around his head — looking oddly like Sylvester Stallone in First Blood — punches, kicks and otherwise battles white-eyed brain-eaters.

There’s a scene where he looks at Hayat and repeats Arnold Schwarzenegger’s iconic line from the 1984 sci-fi thriller The Terminator — you know the line. In another scene, he can be seen leaping off a roof like Bruce Willis in everyone’s favourite 80s holiday movie Die Hard — but, y’know, with zombies.

The film doesn’t appear to be for the squeamish or the weak of heart, but for anyone who can handle the graphic violence, it will hit theatres globally in just over a couple of weeks on the first day of Eid.