Playing in select theatres beginning June 7th (please check local listings)
I’m not entirely sure if Judgment Day has come in Thea Hvistendahl‘s genuinely creepy film, Handling the Undead. Unlike other zombie films where they’re treated as the villain or just creatures of happenstance, here, they don’t attack the living. Instead, they simply linger. They exist in the last place they knew as peaceful.
John Ajvide Lindqvist‘s 2005 novel may offer some explanation. When considering he wrote Let the Right One In, and I really loved the cinematic adaptation of this work, I had high hopes going in. What’s presented isn’t too different in style, but as for that origin story, we’re left in the dark for why it started. The few people who are asking questions are perplexed and this story doesn’t really dive into it. Shame on me for not reading this book, but after watching this film, I’ll be picking up a copy to get answers to some lingering questions I have.