If you like The Walking Dead, then you may also like a 2013 movie called The Returned. Its set in a POST-zombie-apocalypse world, which does not seem to have suffered too much apocalypse, largely in thanks to the development of a suppressor drug which controls the virus and prevents its mutation effects for turning the infected into undead monsters. However, the effects are only temporary, and a strict regime of injections must be administered... but there is panic when it is announced that the materials to make the suppressor drug are running low, and soon there will be no more injections for ANY of the Returned. This incites fear and prejudice in the uninfected (think akin to the 80s mentality when AIDS was killing people, only worse), some of whom allow their bigotry escalate into violence. Even among the infected, there develops a dangerous competition over who can obtain and who si more entitled to the last remaining vials of the drug. While the governments labs scramble to develop a permanent cure, martial law in invoked and the Returned are ordered to surrender themselves to controlled facilities where they will be under quarantine, which may or may not be the safe precautionary haven the government promises it to be. What I liked about this movie is it hardly had any zombies. I think there was ONE. It was more about the living - both the uninfected, and the Returned. If you like Lost Girl, it may interest you to know Kris Holden-Reid plays the male protagonist, who is also one of the Returned. His girlfriend, Emily Hampshire, strongly resembled/reminded me of Emma Stone, so that was a bonus for me. (Jeez, whats with all the Emilys lately? Theres my Emma Stone, Emily Kinney from TWD, and now this Hampshire babe who could play Stones [twin?] sister!) The ending... well... how do I describe it without ruining it? Lets just say, I would have went another direction. But, despite my initial disappointment over the turnout of events, a very small hint of vindication followed. I appreciated how it is a movie which FINALLY portrayed a world with a control and/or cure, and not just the same old tired formula of, the world as we know it gone to shit, run, hide, dont get bit, dont get scratched, sleep with one eye open, scavenge for food & supplies, fear the survivors as well as the undead, and always aim for the head, all amidst a gratuitous gore-fest of blood and guts. So, check out this movie. Its quite good. Especially for a zombie movie.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:27:50 +0000
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