If you are sick of zombies and pandemics, please do not let that stop you from watching The Cured! In an audaciously nuanced feature film directorial debut, David Freyne creates a world set in Ireland where zombies can be cured, but they remember

| Jun 12, 2024

A zombie apocalypse film that’s more interested in exploring the human brain than it is in eating it, The Cured is a good Friday flick for those who like their horror served with a side of psychoanalysis.

| Oct 3, 2022

It breathes fresh life into the decaying, cliché-crowded zombie genre with its eye-opening realism whilst using the "cured" zombies as a metaphor to explore themes of guilt and forgiveness.

| Jun 10, 2021

A dead-serious zombie tale admirably more interested in character psychology than gore.

| Nov 13, 2020

The Cured is a gritty take on the genre that fits nicely into the new type of storytelling that these stories need to embrace in a post-Romero world.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Jul 30, 2020

Writer/director David Freyne has not just reinvigorated the genre, but has employed it to explore society's ills at a level not seen since the heyday of George Romero. It's that good.

| Mar 23, 2020

The Cured accelerates conversations around horror films being the loudest megaphone for the masses (a mirror to society) but isn't all that interesting as a pure zombie movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2019

'The Cured' is thought-provoking, well-executed and brings something new and refreshing to the zombie sub-genre.

| Original Score: 4.5 | Aug 15, 2019

You'd think the zombie movie might have run out of ideas by now. But in compelling and ambitious stories like The Cured, the genre only seems to get smarter.

| Apr 16, 2019

Page, also credited as a producer, is largely pushed to the sidelines, but the shifting power dynamics between Keeley and a menacing Vaughan-Lawlor effectively elevate the material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2018

David Freyne has created a social drama crafted within a genre film.

| Nov 8, 2018

Although the film always plays bigger than it is, Freyne continually keeps the conflict on an intimate level by keeping his focus on Senan, Abigail and Connor's whose differences with each other are articulated so intelligently and distinctly.

| Oct 22, 2018

Similar to like-minded BBC series In The Flesh(...), The Cured is most interested in exploring how social cohesion is threatened when disparate people and divergent beliefs are put in a pressure cooker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2018

The gory details of this imagined world are just too specific to have any resonance. We're left with a solemn yet pulpy horror flick.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2018

Tense, creepy and layered with historical parallels, this could be the horror film of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2018

Suspenseful and thought-provoking, The Cured is a serious, engaged horror movie. More upsetting than scary, it ratchets up the tension unsettlingly. There's life in zombies yet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2018

My tolerance for zombie acting and zombie drama in the style of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is never all that high, and the tropes are a bit familiar here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 11, 2018

Struggles to move beyond genre clichs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2018

Though it doesn't quite achieve its potential, The Cured is troubling as any exploration of such subjects should be. It is also timely and humane.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2018

The brainchild of Irish writer-director David Freyne, this powerful and provocative post-zombie flick offers a fresh take on the genre, making it a must-see for genre fans.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2018