They Came Back (2004)

Original title

Les Revenants

Directed by

Robin Campillo

Genre

horror film, zombie film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

12

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 125 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small French town, thousands of deceased people suddenly return, physically unchanged. They try to resume their former lives, but their presence unsettles the living and raises questions about memory and grief.

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What happens

They Came Back (French: Les Revenants), known in the UK as The Returned, is a 2004 French horror drama film directed by Robin Campillo in his directorial debut. The film was screened at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest in Germany, the Venice Film Festival in Italy, and the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. Unlike the typical zombie film, in which the physically deformed undead compulsively feed on or otherwise harm the human population, the physically normal undead in They Came Back seek only to reintegrate themselves into the everyday life of the small French town where they formerly lived, or so it seems. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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