[Director Robin Campillo's] camera seems to deliberately circle around death, examining it from every angle.
They Came Back (2004)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:5
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.5/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 30, 1999 Limited
Synopsis: A welcome original entry into the vast canon of zombie films, THEY CAME BACK offers a humorous poke at the conventions of the genre. Set in a quiet French town, the local residents are in for a... A welcome original entry into the vast canon of zombie films, THEY CAME BACK offers a humorous poke at the conventions of the genre. Set in a quiet French town, the local residents are in for a shock when the dead come crawling back to life. But they needn't fear, as these undead non-ghouls simply want to come home and resume their lives from whence they left off. As the issue begins to attract attention from outside the village, a huge problem evolves as no one can decide what to do with this convergence of the walking dead. Amusing at first, director Robin Campillo delicately allows a disturbing undercurrent to develop as the film progresses, resulting in a memorable movie with themes that echo the Brit zombie hit SHAUN OF THE DEAD. [More]
Starring: Geraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frederic Pierrot, Catherine Samie
Starring: Geraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frederic Pierrot, Catherine Samie, Marie Matheron
Director: Robin Campillo
Director: Robin Campillo
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Reviews for They Came Back
...this film's engagingly original premise allows for some probing social exploration but ultimately fails to draw any real conclusions.
a kind of aborted film that's mostly about how paranoid people are, and not the mind-f*** that it really ought to have been
A creative and intelligent recycling of the dead returning for non-horror purposes, but it runs into pacing problems toward the middle.
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