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The Returned (2013 film)

FilmInfected, still aliveA virus2010 to today

This film imagines the aftermath of a zombie plague in which the infected can live normally as long as their medication lasts. A doctor and her infected husband go on the run when stocks run low. Reviewers described it as social commentary and a subversion of the genre.1

Battle it
First appeared
2013
Released 2013
Source work
The Returned (2013)
Manuel Carballo
Made in
Spain, Canada
What causes it
A virus
A zombie plague that killed an estimated 100 million people in the 1980s.
Intelligence
Clever
Weak spots
  • a daily dose of medicine holds the infection off

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2013

Released 2013

field notes

What the sources say

1

The returned are infected people kept human by a daily injection1

2

Missing a single dose causes rapid, irreversible decline into a feral zombie1

3

The medicine can be extracted only from dead feral zombies, so supplies are always at risk1

4

The returned face discrimination, violent protests and quarantine camps1

5

A Spanish-Canadian co-production that premiered at Sitges1

Sources

  1. The Returned (2013 film) - Wikipedia

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