HANDLING THE UNDEAD

HÅNDTERING AV UDØDE

By Thea HVISTENDAHL

NEON - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Drama - Completed 2024

A character driven horror/drama, the film deals with fundamental emotions around grief and mortality and the battle of accepting what we cannot control.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2024
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Drama, Horror
    • Countries
    • NORWAY
    • Languages
    • NORWEGIAN
    • Budget
    • 3 - 5 M$
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Thea HVISTENDAHL
    • Writer(s)
    • John AJVIDE LINDQVIST, Thea HVISTENDAHL
    • Producer(s)
    • Kristin EMBLEM, Guri NEBY
    • Synopsis
    • On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town. TVs, lightbulbs, and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over. But the strange event has awoken the newly deceased from death. HANDLING THE UNDEAD weaves together three families through their loss: Mahler (72) and his daughter, Anna, mourn the too early passing of his grandson; Tora (86) says her final goodbye to her wife at the funeral home; and a family of four face a life without a wife and mother.