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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live9pm, Sky MaxYet another spin-off from the zombie apocalypse franchise (six and counting), this one is set to be an, erm, “epic love story”, picking up five years after the conclusion of the original series. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira reprise their roles as Rick Grimes and Michonne Hawthorne, with Rick trying to escape the Civic Republic Military. Hollie Rich...[Read More]

Just about everything that can be done with the zombie genre has been done. Comedy, rom-com, action movies, drama, and even arthouse cinema have put a spotlight on the returned dead. We’ve even shows such as The Walking Dead place emphasis on the living, and how they cope with a world overrun by zombie hordes. But Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead, while hardly breaking the mold, does somethi...[Read More]

A zombie movie is wrapped in a gentle tale of mourning and love.The yearning to reverse death is baked into human nature, a longing to defeat evil, to set things right, to conquer mortality. In “Handling the Undead,” that desire is the fruit of great love. Who hasn’t, upon losing someone, wished desperately for just one more chance to see them, hold them, tell them how much they mean?“Handling the...[Read More]

Claim: The late children’s television host Fred Rogers’ personality will be adapted for a horror film called “Rogers” in which his character is a serial killer. On May 23, 2024, a Facebook post from the page YODA BBY ABY claimed that comedy actor Fred Armisen will s...[Read More]

It’s a big week for horror, with two recent theatrical releases coming home, one of the best slashers of the modern era hitting theaters, and a new Takashi Miike film coming to Netflix. Here’s all the new horror releasing May 27, 2024 – June 2, 2024! For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar. After scaring up $53 million at the worldwide box office, directo...[Read More]

From the Let The Right One In writer, this rethinks zombies and provides a dissection of life after loss and what it truly means. PLOT: 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? REVIEW: Zombies have had a prominent place in horror for nearly a century. ...[Read More]

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]