Reviews

Okay, I tried to like this. I really did. When the synopsis is to inflict pain on someone to gather the "chemicals" in the brain, you would think that the people could think of creative ways to cause pain without breaking a leg, or disfiguring yourself via burning. I mean come on, really? Getting your fingernail ripped off hurts incredibly bad, and they do this to give them the extra "pain boost", so why not do that only? You have 20 of them for pete's sake, and they grow back! I felt sad watching this, as the bad person gathering these people must have chosen from a group of people that rode the short bus to school and only for getting off on watching them hurt each other. Yet at no time was any of that mentioned, just camera's to make sure they do what they are supposed to do. Dreadful acting, pathetic attempts at hysterics, just plain awful. If you see this on Netflix just ignore it. You'll wish you had...

If you went into They Came Back with ideas of zombies eating brains, apocalyptic cities in ruin, or gore/violence, you picked the wrong movie. Though you could rightly say this is a zombie movie, it would have to be stressed these zombies are not like traditional ones. I don't want to give anything away, and I'll try not to spoil this, but I will say this movie goes more into the emotional aspect of the "what if" scenario the dead do come back to life. Not the shuffling type, but exactly the same way they were before they passed away. Several family units are explored, and their attempt to reintegrate their loved one back into the land of the living, and this allows the director to shed more light on the message he appears to be sending. Of which, I am not sure. At first I thought end-of-days thoughts, such as a pseudo-biblical theme, and to be honest he may very well be going for that. However, the ending doesn't seem to make that scenario valid, so I'm still open as to this movies meaning. All in all, it was enjoyable.

If you want to add real drama, lives playing out much closer to what would actually happen should a zombie apocalypse occur, than this is your movie. Great plot, great movie, good drama for a change in a zombie flick.

+caution spoiler+ This is a tale of several people, all living in an apartment building, and what would happen should the zombie apocalypse happen. Of course, nobody is armed to the teeth, how to incapacitate a zombie isn't known so it has to be trial and error (ending in someone's demise, of course). It's about desperation, trying to survive with what you may have in a strangers apartment, and what most movies leave out: food. There is the token heroic sacrifice scene, which in this movie made it a 10.