The Cured [Sub: Eng]
A disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. The once-infected zombies are discriminated against by society and their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government interference.
18 January 1983, Dublin, Ireland
22 April 1984
21 February 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1977, Dublin, Ireland
1970, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1967, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1948, Dublin, Ireland
May 12, 2018
Suspenseful and thought-provoking, The Cured is a serious, engaged horror movie. More upsetting than scary, it ratchets up the tension unsettlingly. There's life in zombies yet.March 16, 2018
The feelings are right, and that's very much the main thing.February 23, 2018
The Cured is going to be a genre film to beat in 2018.May 11, 2018
My tolerance for zombie acting and zombie drama in the style of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is never all that high, and the tropes are a bit familiar here.May 14, 2018
The gory details of this imagined world are just too specific to have any resonance. We're left with a solemn yet pulpy horror flick.March 21, 2018
At its best, it has the provocative cunning of a "Black Mirror" episode. Unfortunately, "The Cured" becomes less cerebral and more predictably action-oriented in its third act .March 08, 2018
Debut director David Freyne has obviously seen entirely too many George Romero movies for his own good.May 12, 2018
Tense, creepy and layered with historical parallels, this could be the horror film of the year.May 09, 2018
Though it doesn't quite achieve its potential, The Cured is troubling as any exploration of such subjects should be. It is also timely and humane.March 01, 2018
"The Cured" drops the politics to become a straight-up zombie flick not nearly as intriguing, though no doubt better for box office.May 10, 2018
Struggles to move beyond genre clichés.March 05, 2018
It's not that writer-director David Freyne is incapable of finesse - "The Cured" has long and affecting passages marked more by sadness and melancholy than horror - but he seems to have misjudged the overtone here.