The Revenant

The Revenant

2009 "What could be worse than having your best friend die?"
The Revenant
The Revenant

The Revenant

6.3 | 1h50m | R | en | Horror

A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.

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6.3 | 1h50m | R | en | Horror , Comedy , War | More Info
Released: September. 26,2009 | Released Producted By: Putrefactory Limited , Wanko Toys Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.therevenantmovie.com/
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A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.

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Cast

Chris Wylde , David Anders , Louise Griffiths

Director

Sandra Lee Gimpel

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Putrefactory Limited , Wanko Toys

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Ole Sandbaek Joergensen Strange, funny, weird, crazy, cult and a whole lot more are the words I could put on this, but above all something very different from what I have seen before.This is a bit too long, almost two hours, had it been a shorter one, then it might have held the standard all the way, but there was too much fuzz in the middle and towards the end.It is a strange movie, fun and weird, but all in all I think you have to be in the right mood and the right company to fully appreciate this one. One wrote that she saw it at Toronto After Dark film festival and I can only image that to be the right audience and the right place to show it :)
GL84 Killed in Iraq, a former soldier returns to his hometown alive but desperately needing blood to survive, and when his buddy decides to have him kill vagrants around town to do so, they find themselves in increasingly desperate situations to try to survive.This turned out to be quite an impressive if mildly flawed effort with a lot to like about it. One of the film's strongest points is the delicate area of how it deals with the guy's condition, bestowing traits of vampires and zombies onto him yet never stating whether he is one or the other and contains traits that cancel out whether he is one or another. It's a great strategy that pays off quite well as this creates such an endearing creature that the resultant scenes of them hunting people down are a lot funnier than expected and generate some really good, genuine laughs from their bumbling and stumbling around, which is nice to see. That said, it's far too long for it's own good, coming in a good twenty-minutes over it's allotted time for such a goofy, non-horror-specific premise since it adapts an action-movie feeling more than once instead of horror during the middle, and it's quite distracting overall. Otherwise, this is quite enjoyable.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, a sex scene and drug use.
Banshee_Boardwalk "The Revenant" sets itself apart from other horror comedies because it introduces a new-hold on a minute before I go on I would just like to mention something. I brought up the fact that this movie is a "horror comedy" does anyone remember when movies just fit into one category? Now we have rom-coms and dramedies starring Brangelina and Bennifer. Yeah even names get combined (or at least on the E! Channel). Someone even had the genius to combine a cheeseburger and a donut into a single food item. As humanity evolves it seems so does every thing around it. Oh right the movie I was going to review-sorry for trailing off there. David Anders plays Bart an undead soldier who is brought back to life where he spends the film lamenting over what he has become. Just kidding he decides to become a vigilante with his stoner pal Joey played by Chris Wylde. You may recognize David Anders from his stint on "Heroes" and you may not recognize Chris Wylde at all, although I do recall him being in a few DiGiorno Pizza commercials in the early 2000's.I found that the film got really entertaining once it became like a Boondock Saints clone but with a zombie guy? Or is he a vampire? Yeah when I mentioned at the beginning that this movie sets itself apart from other horror comedies it is because it introduces a ghoulish being called a revenant. Revenants (Not to be confused with Replicants from the 1982 movie Blade Runner) are essentially a hybrid of a zombie and a vampire. More tendencies of vampire exist than a zombie, with a revenant being of normal intellect while also having immunity from most vampire weaknesses. Decapitation turns out to be the only fatality to a revenant. The story goes through some thrilling turns as Bart becomes an undead crime fighter while also having to reveal that he is still alive to his mourning girlfriend Janet and her friend Matty. Matty is a nurse who also practices some sort of aura meditation thing. She is one of my favorite aspects of the entire movie and sadly she is under-used. The concept begins with a great amount of excitement and energy but sadly it falters towards the end.Overall if you enjoy movies that have a supernatural element in them then you will like this. Since zombies and vampires and David Anders are the biggest things in Hollywood now then this movie is 3 for 3 so it's good but not great. There is some real good chemistry that exists between the characters giving you a feeling that their is more to the complex relationships. There is also some really outstanding conflicts that occur that our heroes must face. If only the second half is as good as the first I would say that it is a perfect film-instead it is AVERAGE at the best. It is a definite RENT though.
scottmannen1 This definitely turned out to be a non-typical vampire movie. While this one starts out very funny the story suddenly becomes very serious and dark. The acting was decent enough and the story was mediocre at best. I guess the bottom line is that for a vampire film fan like myself I found the movie entertaining and a good way to kill a few hours. THe movie is a bit long and at times the story seemed to drag on in certain areas. The film goes from being funny to being dead serious. It mixes in vampire lore mixed with some zombie plague. The real challenge I found with this movie is discovering where the heck did the vampire disease start from and how? Its evident that the protagonist gets infected at the very beginning of the movie, but what is the story of those who infected him and why hadn't the disease spread further in Afganistan where the initial infection takes place? Decent movie!