If you’ve been watching Channel 4 recently, you’re sure to have at least spotted the advert, if not watched the intriguing and sinister French zombie drama, The Returned.
The French series is in fact inspired by the 2004 cult hit feature film Les Revenants and Arrow Films will be releasing Robin Campillo’s original feature on UK DVD from Monday 22nd July 2013 – now re-titled The Returned.
The recently dead return to life and seem content merely to go back to their former lives, but their return causes a myriad of complications.
Isham and Véronique have their trepidations, but they’re generally happy, at first, to see their little boy Sylvain, and the town’s elderly mayor welcomes home his wife, Martha . But Rachel, a government health official, cannot bring herself to visit her newly returned husband, Mathieu, at the ad-hoc shelter where the government houses the “zombies” like refugees.
Eventually, she relents, and Mathieu returns home, but the living find that their loved ones are not exactly as they remember them.
Studies soon reveal that the dead suffer from a form of aphasia. They cannot create new memories, and they cannot be trusted to perform any but the most menial tasks. Perhaps sensing the discomfort they cause the living, the dead gather together at night, and seem to be formulating some kind of secret plan.
THE RETURNED is out on DVD Monday 22nd July 2013, courtesy of Arrow Films
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