However, their indoor missions result in high casualties and reveal their corrupt nature, straining Juan's relationship with his daughter, Camila.

With the increasing number of zombies, the group takes refuge on rooftops, relying on Vladi's solo food retrieval missions.

Desperate for safety, the dwindling group, consisting of Juan, Lazaro, Primo, Vladi, and Camila (who have become romantically involved), decides to head for the mountains.

They find temporary safety in a parking garage suggested by a middle-aged man with a harpoon gun mounted on his truck, who hints at a religious solution but is accidentally killed by Lazaro.

Sheltering in the parking garage, Lazaro devises a plan to construct a flotation mechanism using oil drums and attach them to a convertible.

Their goal is to drive through a group of zombies and reach the beach, where they plan to float to Florida in hopes of finding safety.

The site's critics consensus reads, "Filled with wild splatter slapstick, Juan of the Dead also deftly uses its zombie premise as an undead Trojan horse for insightful political commentary.