The Return (2006)
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Sam Shepard, Kate Beahan, Adam Scott
Screenwriter: Adam Sussman
Producer: Aaron Ryder, Jeffrey Silver
Composer: Dario Marinelli
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 27, 2007
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Snap Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
- Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
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Reviews
Built from spare parts left over by American remakes of Japanese copies of "Ringu", "The Return" is at least two steps removed from the first generation copy.
Too polished to be truly creepy, The Return has more than enough atmosphere to keep you watching - but nowhere near enough mystery.
The Return is a slow burn that's often way too slow, feeling stretched to meet a running time that's still under 90 minutes.
a low point in the on-going battle to scare U.S. teens from their allowances
Austerely directed but shamelessly dry, uneventful and derivative.
[The Return] isn't creepy enough to really work properly and there's an over-reliance on sudden soundtrack noises in place of actual scares.
It proves what many people have been suspecting for a while now: SMG is a scream queen for audiences who don't like horror movies.
Adam Sussman’s script is so thin you can see right through it.
She gulps a hell of a lot, her cardigan sleeves are pulled down over her hands and her forehead’s slightly furrowed (not too much, mind, it could make her look old). It can only mean one thing: Sarah Michelle Gellar is acting.
If you are expecting anything new or profound to be added to the Rocky recipe then guess again - there is nothing fresh or original here, simply a wellconstructed and engagingly-performed film that will tick all the right boxes for Rocky fans.
A large step backwards for a promising director and far from the return we’d been hoping for.
[The Return is] more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present.
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