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Handling the Undead

2024 · 98 min

A slow, suffocating meditation on loss, where the horror lies in the quiet, decaying presence of loved ones who return wrong.

Directed by: Thea Hvistendahl
Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars

Overview: 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?

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Directed by: Thea Hvistendahl
Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
death
family
isolation
trauma
Places: big city
single country house
hospital
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex none

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Horror	7
Humour	0
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	9
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: horror, drama, mystery
Directed by: Thea Hvistendahl
Written by: Thea Hvistendahl, John Ajvide Lindqvist
Starring: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars, Bjørn Sundquist, Denise Trankalis, Bente Børsum, Jan Hrynkiewicz, Olga Damani
Music: Peter Raeburn
Cinematography: Pål Ulvik Rokseth
Runtime: 98 min
Country: Greece, Norway, Sweden
Languages: Norwegian, Swedish

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