Sundance 40: Thea Hvistendahl on her bold zombie film “Handling the Undead”
When you watch “Handling the Undead” you have to deconstruct your way of viewing the film. The film involves dead people and it touches on tropes of zombie films, but it’s not necessarily about the “zombies,” it’s about the loved ones and their relationship with these beings. It’s about the left behind, and how we […]
Sundance 40 Review: “Handling the Undead” feasts on existentialism in this unconventional horror drama
“Handling the Undead,” directed by Thea Hvistendahl, mainly follows a trio of isolated vignettes. Anna (Renate Reinsve) and her father, Mahler (Bjørn Sundquist), mourn the loss of her young son. Anna’s grief is distant and angry, while her father’s is desperate and emotional. When visiting the boy’s grave, Mahler begins to hear a knocking from […]