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The Living and the Dead

The Living and the Dead (2007)

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80

Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1

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60

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 826

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First-time feature filmmaker Kristijan Milic teams with writer Josip Mlakic for this screen adaptation of Mlakic's popular novel following two tales of 20th century bloodshed in Bosnia. Alternating between warfare in 1943 and 1993, Milic and Mlakic's dark war drama highlights the haunting sameness of both battles by following a squadron of HVO (Bosnian Croat) soldiers as they walk the same path and face the same treachery that their Domobran (defenders of the Croat Independent State) forefathers

Unrated,

Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense

Simon Rumley

Mar 25, 2008

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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (1) | DVD (3)

The Living and the Dead is not an easy movie to sit through, and its darkness may be a little mannered, but it's an elegant construction with real emotions buried deep inside.

October 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Salon.com
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This is a truly haunted movie.

October 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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A bizarre psychological study of degeneration and dependency, The Living and the Dead is a horror movie only in the most literal sense.

October 24, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Times
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This is great filmmaking in the sense that overplayed virtuoso guitar shredding is great music -- which is to say, not at all.

October 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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A striking study of madness that skirts horror territory.

June 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety
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...has elements of horror, as the plethora of knives and hypodermic needles point to, but this is a unique entry for those who like thought-provoking concepts served up with their grue.

March 31, 2008
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Part neo-gothic horror, part empathetic schizoid freak-out, The Living and the Dead suggests an unlikely cross between Spider and Requiem for a Dream.

October 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
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A devious and admirably twisted little mind-bender of a genre flick.

April 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinematical
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So genuinely horrific and unrelentingly sad and grim, many people will not have the stomach for it.

July 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment (1)
Film Threat

[F]ans of small horror stories and British indies with a dark side will certainly be entertained, though cross-over appeal to non-horror fans will probably be limited.

April 26, 2006 Full Review Source: european-films.net
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Audience Reviews for The Living and the Dead

The Living and the Dead is an annoying psychological thriller. I did like one part though, and that was the setting. The house in the movie really fits the atmosphere of the movie well. Other than that there is nothing I like about it. The character James was way over the top. Constantly screaming, jumping, and running. I guess the filmmaker needed to make him as annoying as possible, in order to offset the extreme dullness of the rest of the movie.
June 15, 2011
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Melvin White

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Disturbing, Dark, Depressing, Amazing.
May 9, 2012
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