They Came Back

They Came Back
Directed byRobin Campillo
Written byRobin Campillo
Brigitte Tijou
Produced byCaroline Benjo
Carole Scotta
StarringGéraldine Pailhas
Jonathan Zaccaï
Frédéric Pierrot
CinematographyJeanne Lapoirie
Edited byRobin Campillo
Music byJocelyn Pook
Martin Wheeler
Distributed byHaut et Court
Release dates
  • 4 September 2004 (2004-09-04) (Venice)
  • 27 October 2004 (2004-10-27) (France)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

They Came Back (French: Les Revenants), known in the UK as The Returned, is a 2004 French horror drama film directed by Robin Campillo in his directorial debut.[1] The film was screened at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest in Germany, the Venice Film Festival in Italy, and the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada.

Unlike the typical zombie film, in which the physically deformed undead compulsively feed on or otherwise harm the human population, the physically normal undead in They Came Back seek only to reintegrate themselves into the everyday life of the small French town where they formerly lived, or so it seems.[2]

  1. ^ "They Came Back". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-24.
  2. ^ Gonzalez, Ed (2005). "They Came Back". Slant Magazine.