{"id":38637,"date":"2025-03-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38637"},"modified":"2025-03-30T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T16:30:01","slug":"the-returned-2013-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38637","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Returned&#8221; (2013) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z033025zview_thereturned.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Returned <\/i>(2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Manuel Carballo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Hatem Khraiche<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Emily Hampshire, Kris Holden-Ried<\/strong><strong>, Shawn Doyle, Claudia Bassols, Barry Flatman, Paul Anthony <\/strong>and <strong>Olunike Adeliyi<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Neither Zombies Nor Humans<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty years ago a zombie virus killed nearly 100 million people around the world.\u00a0 A cure was discovered that held back the transformation to zombie if administered soon after the infection.\u00a0 A daily dose of the medicine was required to remain healthy.\u00a0 If even one dose was missed the person would soon become sick and transform into a zombie.\u00a0 For a missed dose there was no cure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The infected people who survived thanks to the cure are called <em>The Returned<\/em>.\u00a0 They are required to carry documentation that identifies them as such.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lately there have been rumors that countries are running short on the medicine required for the cure.\u00a0 This is creating panic and heightened tensions throughout the world.\u00a0 There has always been a group of people who think <em>The Returned<\/em> shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to live because of the dangers they present if they miss even a single does of the cure.\u00a0 These activists are using the rumors to step up their attacks on people identified as a <em>Returned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kate (Hampshire) is a doctor who fears the rumor of a shortage of the cure is true.\u00a0 Kate has been buying vials of the cure from the black market.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not for her.\u00a0 Kate&#8217;s husband, Alex is infected.\u00a0 If there is a shortage of the cure, they have stockpiled enough for about a month.\u00a0 But what then?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then word comes out that the rumors of a cure shortage are true.\u00a0 Madness and chaos reign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Returned<\/em> is NOT your typical zombie flick. There is more psychological fear of what might happen then terror of a zombie trying to eat you.\u00a0 (Although that is a worry as well.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a nice twist that I didn&#8217;t see coming.\u00a0 There is also a final scene that has a different tone (which I liked) that could have set up a sequel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>The Returned <\/i>(2013) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z033025zview_thereturned2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Returned (2013) Director: Manuel Carballo Screenplay: Hatem Khraiche Stars: Emily Hampshire, Kris Holden-Ried, Shawn Doyle, Claudia Bassols, Barry Flatman,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38638,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38637\/revisions\/38638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}