I'll try to review this without any histrionics about whether or not it's a zombie film, and how I could possibly have enjoyed it after seeing the excellent In the flesh. Enjoy it though I did, it was something a little different, and as someone that is now bored to tears by zombie films, talk about a genre that's been done to death (no pun intended!) this was a slightly different slant. The story was good, the acting was rugged, and the characters each had reasonable motives for their behaviours.

It isn't a movie I'd go back to watch a second time, but as a one of it held my interest well, clearly not big budget, but they made the most of the resources on hand.

Pretty good. 7/10

THE CURED is a dour, gloomy zombie drama from Ireland that obviously doesn't really want to be a horror movie but rather a realistic character study. The film is set in a post-zombie outbreak world, in which zombies have been 'cured' and are now human again (ridiculous, I know). The film explores how such former zombies are integrated into society and people's homes, or not as it transpires. This kind of thing is slightly novel but was done much better in the likes of THE RETURNED, the French TV series. Ellen Page distracts with her Irish accent while the film plays the usual hand of having the government/military the villains and fails to make any of the characters interesting or likeable, merely self-centred.

An interesting story overall and some neat ideas woven into it. Unfortunately cliche does take over and poor decisions (to say the least) of the main characters make this annoying to borderline unwatchable at times. It's a shame because it does look like you have a good cast, but even they struggle to make their choices seem believable.

Ellen Page has some gravitas to what she is doing, but even she falls victim to doing exactly what you predict any (wrong) thing the others are going to do too. By the way a man of the law showing up completely without any backup should really not be a thing anymore. This is beyond insulting to the viewer and ridiculous at best ...