John Ajvide Lindqvist, together with the film’s director, Thea Hvistendahl, have written the script for ‘Rest in Peace’, a drama in which the dead return from their graves and come to meet their families. Imagine the confusion of the living
A hot summer day in Oslo, capital of Norway. The dead begin to mysteriously awaken from their graves. Three families will be thrown into chaos when their loved ones return home. What do they want, for what purpose have they returned to the world of the living?
This is the chilling premise of Rest in peaceeven more terrifying than other generic zombie films and slightly reminiscent of the plot of the 2012 French series Les Revenantsin which the dead came back to life without being aware of their own nature.
One of the main attractions of the film is to once again enjoy Renate Reinsve on the big screen, the breakout star of one of the best films of 2021, The worst person in the world. Reinsve precisely took home one of the big prizes at Cannes that year, the Best Actress award. Now with Rest in peaceoffers us a completely different, more dramatic and terrifying record.
In general, Rest in peacez has been well received by international and national critics, although, for example, in Guardian They warn that “the director’s slowness can be a testlike seeing a story told in small drips, some of which stick more than others.”
Slowness when telling a story is, sometimes, the only way to tell it. For example, in this sense, the medium deadline welcome this slowness as a virtue and not as a defect: “In the panorama of zombie cinema, a genre full of predictability, it emerges not as a full-fledged horror film, but as a unique, slow-burning filmdominated by drama and avoiding easy scares.
In screendaily They also mention this slowness as a positive: “Slow-burning terror enhanced by an amplified sound design and a disturbing soundtrack.” In short, all this to say that although it is a ‘zombie’ movie, we cannot compare it with series like The Walking Dead. Rest in peace It is more auteur cinema than genre cinema, and it is a film that, according to the comments, is a horror film, yes, but a slow one.
He next June 19 you will be able to enjoy Rest in peace and its particular terrifying proposal exclusively in cinemas throughout Spain.
