| | | The Past Never Dies. It Kills.
Features: DVD
Sarah Michelle Gellar (The Grudge) stars in this shocking, non-stop supernatural thriller unlike anything you've ever experienced before. Joanna Mills (Gellar) is haunted by increasingly terrifying visions where she can see and feel the brutal murder of a woman she's never met. With her life spiraling out-of-control, she follows the relentless nightmares to an eerie small town in Texas - a place where secrets can't be buried, a spirit seeks vengeance, and the horrific murder from Joanna's visions may just be her own.
"...emphasis on subtle atmospherics rather than cheap scares..." Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
"...haunting...the violence of the past bleeds into the present." Keith Phipps, The Onion A.V. Club
"The minimalist style keeps the suspense warm." Kyle Smith, New York Post
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 10, 2006THE RETURN stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a seemingly normal young woman who becomes ensnared in the world of the supernatural when she begins having nightmares about a 25-year-old murder.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 9/9/2008 |
| Running Time: 86 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 62028676 | | UPC: 00025192867620 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 5 of 10
Sarah Michelle Gellar finds herself experiencing visions related to another woman's unsolved murder years earlier in supernatural drama "The Return." Time-killer chiller reps an undistinguished U.S. debut for U.K. helmer Asif Kapadia, though the undernourished script may be most at fault. Forgettable PG-13 pic will particularly strike fans of harder-edged recent horror pix as much ado about not much...With its bleak settings and drained color palette, "The Return" is more self-consciously somber than the script's logic gaps, uninspired character writing and general familiarity can justify...Aussie TV star O'Brien has presence, though the pic doesn't do much with it (and doesn't bother changing his character's appearance at all for 15-years-earlier flashbacks). - Dennis Harvey
Reel.com 6 of 10
Asif Kapadia's The Return is a visually sumptuous but emotionally stillborn thriller that may be a bit too modest for its own good. It's the kind of film that would have worked well as the bottom half of a double bill in the 1940s - the story is slight but intriguing, and though the movie doesn't make much sense, it has style to burn and a few truly scary moments. Unfortunately, the concept of the B-theatrical feature has been more or less dead for over 50 years now, and The Return feels anticlimactic in the age of more ambitious recent horror releases like The Descent and Hostel...subtlety isn't always a virtue in a thriller, and Kapadia's low-key approach gives way to lethargy in the movie's final third. - Jim Hemphill
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