2004 · horror · drama · supernatural
The Returned
Directed by Robin Campillo1h 42m2004
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Our read: The Returned (2004) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · drama · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
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