Hvistendahl treats the audience with respect, her and Lindqvist’s reworking of the latter’s source material respectful, intelligent, and overflowing in empathy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2024

Composer Peter Raeburn’s beautifully sad soundtrack along with Pål Ulvik Rokseth’s cinematography contribute to creating a tragic mood that’s hard to let go of after the film’s sad conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2024

The cooking comparison for Handling the Undead would be a sauce that’s broken, its elements having separated. There’s a genuine sense of lived-in sadness here, but this would-be elegy doesn't offer quite enough mesmeric insights to justify its somberness.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 6, 2024

“Handling the Undead” also eschews any of the practical questions, but with a more humanist intent: to lean single-mindedly into its characters’ emotions — and also its eerie mythical resonance.

| May 31, 2024

Hvistendahl’s film is absorbing, even captivating at times. But it moves at a pace that can be charitably described as “measured.” (The uncharitable word is “sluggish.”)

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 31, 2024

It’s an incredibly somber film, one washed in hues of blue and green, and it gets under your skin, making you question how you would react if you could have more time with a lost loved one, even if you knew immediately there would be a cost.

| Feb 1, 2024

There’s a sense of sadness and dread that haunts every frame; the rolling fog that those left behind know all too well.

| Jan 29, 2024

For how committed it is to convincing the audience of the profundity of a rudimentary point, the film’s measured pacing comes to feel like a kind of torture.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2024

The film’s strength lies in its narrative, seamlessly connecting three distinct family dynamics linked by the common thread of loss.

| Jan 25, 2024

The lugubrious pace can be a little too sluggish at times but Hvistendahl handles the last act’s descent into slightly more expected horror well...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2024

A zombie film unlike any other, focused less on mayhem than on grief, loss, and the quiet, tragic terror begat by the dead’s return.

| Jan 22, 2024

An unexpectedly poignant lament.

| Jan 21, 2024

A living-dead nightmare with a brain and a heart and, most importantly and inedibly, a soul.

| Jan 21, 2024