Sooo ... the zombie apocalypse has actually been happening, but a cure has been found, and 75% of all zombies have been turned into very regular human beings once again - with the one slight problem that they still remember their zombie days, and while that's not at all relapse-prone, it still causes traumata. Thing is, not everybody in "society" feels very comfortable with the "cured" walking among us yet again, so they're pretty much treated like 2nd class citizens, often even by those who don't intend to ...

Senan (Sam Keeley) is one of the cured, and his sister-in-law Abbie (Ellen Page) has agreed to take him in - not knowing of course that he killed her husband when infected. That said, Senan is a good guy, ready to walk the straight and narrow, whatever it takes, and the only reason (other than the obvious practical one) he doesn't tell Abbie what he has done is that he's utterly ashamed and remorseful. He also works of a doctor (Paula Malcomson) who works on curing zombies - remember, there are still 25% who are infected.

Thing is, not everybody's a "model citizen" like Senan. There's Conor (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) for example, who has been a politician back in the day, but now he's reduced to be a cleaner as part of the re-integration program - and he's not happy about that, soon starts organizing protests, and what might deem as "terrorist attacks". For Senan, who wants to just leave his past behind, this holds little interest - but for Conor, Senan is a key part in the revolution of the cured ...

For the most part, zombie cinema and TV has just been (dystopian) escapist entertainment, but films as early as Night of the Living Dead (and some might argue King of the Zombies even) have shown that there's a political dimension to those tales as well - and The Cured is very good at spelling things out ... without actually spelling them out but telling a cool genre story that carries ideas about immigration, about parallel societies (if you want to call them that), about prejudice, and about just being a decent human being. And that's all made possible by great writing, a directorial effort that knows its way about genre filmmaking, and a very solid cast of course.

Worth a look for sure!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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