Handling The Undead is a norwegian horror movie based on a swedish book by the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). It’s a very unusual zombie movie as it focuses very much on the grief and pain the families of dead ones goes through and then they struggle even more once their loved ones comes back to life. I think it was a great slow burner, I love those types of horror movies that take their time. But I have to say it would have been better if they speeded up the beginning a bit.

It’s out on rent right now and will most likely come on streaming later. I watched it on Apple TV+, it was like $12 there. I can recommend it, just note that it is slow and it’s not the usual zombie flix.

I’m norwegian and very rarely watch norwegian movies because I find them extremely boring. This on the other hand was interesting, mostly because of Renate Reinsve. She recently played the leading role in The Worst Person in the World, a movie I would highly recommend if you’re into drama movies. She is really one of our best actors at this point in time.

Trigger warning: It contains scenes of suicide attempts and a dead child coming back to life. There is also a few violent scenes but it wasn’t to bad in this part. There were no blood that I can remember which I found odd.