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The returned of They Came Back

Also called: They Came Back, The Returned
FilmUndeadShambles2000 to 2009

Robin Campillo's film has the recently dead of a French town return and the council plan how to house and reintegrate them. The returned can carry out rote tasks but not think spontaneously. It premiered at Venice in 2004 and was the basis of the later television series.12

Battle it
First appeared
2004
Released 2004
Source work
Les Revenants (2004)
Robin Campillo
Made in
France
What causes it
Never explained
No cause is given.
How you become one
Everyone who died in the previous ten years walks out of the cemeteries.
How it moves
Shambles
They wander, especially at night.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • the army gasses them into a permanent coma

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2004

Released 2004

field notes

What the sources say

1

About 70 million return across France, 13,000 of them in the film's town12

2

They behave as if severely concussed: disoriented, sleepless, able to do routine tasks but not to solve new problems12

3

The town houses them and puts former professionals into menial jobs12

4

At the end they gather in tunnels; after being gassed, their bodies are laid on their graves and fade away12

5

Shot in Tours during the 2003 heatwave12

6

The source of the television series Les Revenants12

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

The returned of They Came Back about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. They Came Back - Wikipedia
  2. The Returned (French TV series) - Wikipedia

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