Handling the Undead
Summary
In Oslo , a high up - pitched plangency disrupts the power , turns radio stations to static , and sets off car alarms . in brief after , the recently deceased paying back to life , their gist beating just fast enough to keep them live despite the fact their oxygen levels are well below normal . Not much more information is give about this event inHandling the Undeadand what happens after is n’t exactly what you ’d expect from a living dead flick . Instead , the film that unfurls at a languid yard turns out to be a rumination on grief and the ways it can destroy masses from the inside out .
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address the Dead is a horror whodunit motion picture directed by Thea Hvistendahl and was released in 2024 . Three families ' lives are upend once more when lie with ones return from the dead and back into their sprightliness - but those who have returned are n’t quite themselves .
Centered on three families , handle the Undeadis expansive in compass . Anna , played byThe Worst Person in the Worldbreakout Renate Reinsve , and her father are grieving the dying of Anna ’s young son Elias . David ( Anders Danielsen Lie , another whizz fromWorst Person ) and his married woman , Eva ( Bahar Pars ) are exit for a night out , their reluctant girl Flora go away to babysit Kian . last , an senior char named Elisabet , played by Olga Damani in a about - still theatrical role , is eat up her partner .
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Handling The Undead Is A Different Kind Of Zombie Movie
These three groups of the great unwashed will be impact by what ’s to come , butHandling the Undeadtakes its fourth dimension to get there . Its pacing is downright glacial for a good chunk of the film ’s first quarter , but shortly enough , the dead look . Elisabet ’s all in collaborator turns up in their kitchen . Anna ’s Church Father digs up Elias ' casket after hearing him bump against the buried woods . Eva wakes up on the operating mesa after a direful accident left her dead . These zombie are n’t hungry for flesh , though ( at least at first ) .
The zombies linger like apparitions . Elisabet gives her lover a tender bath . Anna , after her father saves her from an attempted suicide , cradles Elias in his bed . David sits next to Eva in the hospital room . No one is sure what is going on , but around the city , graves are dug up and sirens cue us that our trio are n’t the only ones experiencing this strange phenomenon .
treat the Undeadis more concerned with loss than it is with chunks of chassis and panicking gang . The zombie are walk reminders of the grief that Anna , Elisabet , and David already carry with them , the desire to have that person back , even for one second , so that everything feel normal . But remembering wo n’t serve — they are distorted and disfigured by time .
Renate Reinsve in Handling the Undead.
deal the Undeadis more concerned with going than it is with chunks of flesh and panicking bunch .
Handling The Undead Is All Dread, Little Horror
These distortions , manifesting as physical putrefaction , are an unsettling sight . The make-up and essence squad sells the undead repugnance with eerie effectiveness . The glazed - over eye of Elisabet ’s lover are unmoving even as they trip the light fantastic together . Eva ’s face , damage from the accident and the rot that is begin to set in , is an unsettling film of decline in quality . It ’s all quite distressful , even if it does not crescendo to true brat .
When the ferocity and flesh - feeding do begin , Handling the Undeadremains a muted affair . The film ’s most disturbing moment has nothing to do with snake god - on - human force at all . Instead , there ’s a prolonged sense of dread bubbling just beneath the surface — that it does n’t boil over feel like the point . Like grief , like the undead , this apprehension is there as a monitor , a placeholder for what ’s been lost . deal the Underis not aneffective revulsion movie , but its living dead - drama formula allows for a portraiture of pain that settles in and stay like an infection .
Handling the Undeadpremiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in the World Dramatic Competition department .
Bahar Pars in Handling the Undead.
Renate Reinsve in Handling the Undead.
Olga Damani in Handling the Undead.
