Movie

The Return

1980 · 86 min

A hazy, low-key small-town mystery that drifts between quiet romance and eerie alien dread, feeling like a half-remembered dream.

Overview: Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, earnest and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Mystery, memory, isolation, obsession
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
memory
isolation
obsession
fate
Places: small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild