Handling the Undead

Name: Handling the Undead
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Horror
Released: May 31, 2024
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars, Bente Børsum, Bjørn Sundquist, Inesa Dauksta

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Neon | Release Date: May 31, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars, Bente Børsum, Bjørn Sundquist, Inesa Dauksta, Jan Hrynkiewicz, Kian Hansen, Olga Damani, Renate Reinsve

Summary: On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car accident; an elderly woman gets the love of her lifeOn a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car accident; an elderly woman gets the love of her life back the same day she has buried her; a grandfather rescues his grandchild from the gravesite in a desperate attempt to get his daughter out of her depression. … Expand

Director: Thea Hvistendahl

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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The Playlist Charles Barfield

Jan 26, 2024

The devastatingly bleak story of Handling the Undead is a wrenching but beautiful exploration of grief and human connection in the face of something horrific. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 21, 2024

A zombie film unlike any other, focused less on mayhem than on grief, loss, and the quiet, tragic terror begat by the dead’s return. Read full review

David Rooney

Jan 21, 2024

The strong cast and distinctive approach to a widely trafficked subgenre make it a soulful rumination on loss. Read full review

Screen Rant Graeme Guttmann

Feb 2, 2024

Handling the Under is not an effective horror movie, but its zombie-drama formula allows for a portrait of pain that settles in and stays like an infection. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Katie Rife

May 31, 2024

Thanks to all this brittle emotion, Hvistendahl’s film is absorbing, even captivating at times. But it moves at a pace that can be charitably described as “measured.” Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Jan 24, 2024

It works in parts, as a study of the ache and irrationality of grief, asking its characters how much they’re willing to accept and deny in order to see their loved ones again. But the first-time director Thea Hvistendahl’s patience-insisting slow burn can be testing, like watching a block of ice slowly melt, a story told in the smallest of drips, some of which sink in deeper than others. Read full review

Mary Siroky

Jan 30, 2024

Unfortunately, the 99-minute run time on Norwegian zombie drama Handling the Undead feels infinitely longer, and lands more as a meditation on grief than an intriguing entry into zombie cinema. Read full review

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