This week we revisit The Returned, a 2013 Spanish-Canadian zombie thriller directed by Manuel Carballo and starring Emily Hampshire and Kris Holden-Ried, about a physician and her infected husband go on the run to avoid angry demonstrators when a rare and difficult to obtain medicine that requires daily doses to stave off the effects of a zombie infection runs low.
We talk about why The Returned is probably the most realistic zombie movie, how the writers drew from real world public health crises including the history of HIV and AIDS to craft a believable world in which some of the population carries the zombie virus, the difference between zombie movies and movies that have zombies in them, and much more.
Check out the video version here:
https://youtu.be/2arEl6_HjCk
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