By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’s a more dramatically oriented story of the deceased returning to life.
Neon has announced that HANDLING THE UNDEAD will open exclusively at New York City’s IFC Center on May 31, and then expand to select cities June 7. Directed by Thea Hvistendahl and scripted by LET THE RIGHT ONE IN’s John Ajvide Lindqvist in collaboration with Hvistendahl, it stars Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Bahar Pars and Inesa Dauksta. The synopsis: “On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car accident; an elderly woman gets the love of her life back the same day she has buried her; a grandfather rescues his grandchild from the gravesite in a desperate attempt to get his daughter out of her depression. HANDLING THE UNDEAD is a drama with elements of horror about three families, a story about grief and loss, but also about hope and understanding of what we can’t comprehend or control.”
