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The book revolves around the unexplained reanimation of thousands of recently deceased people in Stockholm. The plot focuses on the reactions of society and the many conflicts that arise between Swedish authorities and the relatives of the undead; the horror is less in the uncanny animation of corpses but in the realities of grief, loss and our ...
Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times wrote:. It's a good thing Lindqvist is such a lively, observant writer because, despite the relative paucity of evil, the themes of his fiction can be mighty grim: his characters spend an inordinate amount of time negotiating with the Reaper, in his various forms.
Handling the Undead (Hanteringen av odöda) was published in 2005 and involved the rising of the dead as zombies, referred to as the "re-living", in the Stockholm area. In 2006, he released his third book, Pappersväggar (Paper Walls, published in English as Let the Old Dreams Die), a collection of short stories.
Whether that’s preferable to the void of death is the question underpinning “Handling the Undead” for … ‘Handling the Undead’ Review: A Zombie Drama With a Beating Heart Under Rotting ...
Thea Hvistendahl’s atmospheric slow-burn “Handling the Undead” took top honors at this year’s Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), claiming the festival’s H.R. Giger ...
Norwegian director Thea Hvistendahl’s zombie movie “Handling the Undead,” premiering at Sundance and to be released in the U.S. by Neon, sees the reunion of Renate Reinsve and Anders ...
Handling the Undead is a 2024 Norwegian horror mystery film, directed by Thea Hvistendahl from a screenplay by Hvistendahl and John Ajvide Lindqvist, based upon the novel of the same name by Lindqvist. It stars Renate Reinsve, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars and Inesa Dauksta.
Hvistendahl began directing short films and commercials in the early 2010s. [3] In 2017, she participated in the Berlinale Talents Short Form Station program to develop her short film Children of Satan, which was released in 2019.