Director Kerry Prior
Staring Chris Wylde, David Anders, Louise Griffiths & Jacy King
Rated MA
score 6/6

The night after his funeral, Bart, a soldier killed in Iraq gets up out of his grave and seeks out his best friend Joey. At dawn Bart’s body falls to the floor, only to reawaken the following dusk. He and his buddy decide that he is a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.

The Revenant is a disturbing, hilarious and yet brilliant movie. This takes the whole concept of the best friend or boyfriend coming back from the dead and seems to turn things on its head turning it into what can be best described as a vigilante blood fuelled splatter fest. What was interesting is that according to the film’s writer and director D. Kerry Prior states on the commentary track that he had abandoned the whole concept of “Hollywood vampiric” lore in favour of what was set out in Dom Augustine Calmet’s ‘Treatise on Vampires and Revenants’. Yes it is true that I am not a big fan of most ‘horror movies’ but The Revenant really did not come across as a pure “Horror movie” it cross the boundaries between a buddy movie, comedy, action and of course horror.
Both David Anders and Chris Wylde gave brilliant performances and had a brilliant onscreen chemistry.