Episode 216: Handling the Undead

I had been looking forward to this one, to be fair. Handling the Undead (2024) based on a novel by John Linqvist who brought us Let the Right One In, a clever and modern take on the vampire story. Scandi, arty, modern, starring Anders Lie from one of our favourites The Night Eats the World about the dead coming back. It had the right ingredients but this was not a zombie movie. It was a treatise on grief, told through three depressing, slow stories all linked to an unexplained event when the dead return in a small Scandinavian town. Pace-wise, it makes Maggie look like Snyder's Dawn 2004.

We have an old woman who is mourning her recently deceased lover, a family who's mother just died in a car crash, and an old man and his daughter mourning a grandson and son. So three different scenarios, with three different stages of grief, about dead of different ages, mourned by different groups.

Slow. Depressing. A zombie movie inasmuch as they are dead and they come back from the dead. That is about it.