New On DVD: The Returned

New this week from Phase 4 Films is The Returned, directed by Manuel Carballo and starring Kris Holden-Ried, Emily Hampshire, and Shawn Doyle.

"In a post-zombie world, the infected live normal lives by taking a valuable retroviral drug every 24 hours. However, with supplies of the drug quickly running out, those who have returned are being targeted by violent anti-zombie protesters. Kate and her Returned husband Alex decide to flee the city, but with the zombie population rising, the government closing in on them, and their supply running out, they become more and more desperate as they search for a way for Alex to survive."

The Returned is available now on DVD and Amazon Instant Video.

Filmax Returns With 'The Returned'

Spain-based Filmax Entertainment, makers of [Rec] and Beyond Re-Animator, will be adding a zombie film film to their filmography with The Returned, to be directed by Manuel Carballo.

Variety reports "Carballo's third feature, "The Returned" centers on a woman who works in a hospital's special unit where patients need daily vaccines to prevent the development of a terrible virus."

 Manuel Carballo's previous work includes Exorcismus (aka La posesion de Emma Evans) and The Last of the Just.

The Returned will be an English language production.