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Handling the Undead, 2024.Written and Directed by Thea Hvistendahl.Starring Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquist, Bahar Pars, Jan Hrynkiewicz, Dennis Østby Ruud, Bente Børsum, Olga Damani, Inesa Dauksta, and Kian Hansen. SYNOPSIS: 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. W...[Read More]

In the pilot of Six Feet Under, the patriarch of a family funeral home business dies and his subsequently attended to by his son. All the undertaker’s embellishments that have become routine for the younger mortician—the embalming, the cossetting, the dressing of the corpses—are suddenly harrowing and inhumane. The disguises one puts on death to soothe the bereaved become perverse and transparent ...[Read More]

[embedded content] While the title of the new film Handling the Undead might present itself as yet another zombie horror fest, that would only partly be correct – which is a good thing. Actually, it’s the best thing. Director and co-writer Thea Hvistendahl uses the zombie genre not for visceral thrills but for a meditation on grief and letting go. This is a drama through and through. It’s the quie...[Read More]