The Return

Name: The Return
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: November 10, 2006
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 38
Cast: Sam Shepard, Sarah Michelle Gellar

2006

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Rogue Pictures | Release Date: November 10, 2006 | PG-13

Starring: Sam Shepard, Sarah Michelle Gellar

Summary: Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Joanna Mills, a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. (Rogue Pictures)

Director: Asif Kapadia

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 85 min

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Keith Phipps

It's more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present. Read full review

Sam Adams

As for Gellar, she seems game but glum, treading water in a role that represses her comic talents and leaves her little to do but suffer in silence. Read full review

Gregory Kirshling

Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Forgettable PG-13 pic will particularly strike fans of harder-edged recent horror pix as much ado about not much. Read full review

Ty Burr

As B-level suspensers go, though, The Return isn't actively awful -- just slow and cursed with a lead who acts with her t-shirt. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Since Adam Sussman's script is as lazy as Asif Kapadia's direction is disjointed, nothing ever makes sense, even after the anticlimatic explanation is revealed. Read full review

Peter Hartlaub

At the heart of The Return is a murder that even the most bumbling homicide investigator could have solved in about 12 seconds. Read full review

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RogerSmith97

Feb 27, 2011

What A Great Psychological Thriller!!
The Whole Cast Is Great, The Music Is Very Good, And The Plot Is Very Fun To Follow!
Sarah Michelle Gellar Show's Us She CAN Act! :)

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TomW.

Nov 10, 2006

I was actually suprised because this movie really scared me. I did not know that it would be so terrifying and jolting. I was very impressed by the acting and would advise you to put it near the top of your much watch list. Good, Clean, almost-R fun. Not just another teen thriller. A I was actually suprised because this movie really scared me. I did not know that it would be so terrifying and jolting. I was very impressed by the acting and would advise you to put it near the top of your much watch list. Good, Clean, almost-R fun. Not just another teen thriller. A overall impressing horror film, leaving a serious imprint on the director's carrer.… Expand

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[Anonymous]

Nov 10, 2006

Has EVERYTHING a horror movie should have. Great music, great plot, great acting, great characters, great suspence, great twits. Literally I could not have asked for more. I promise you will walk out with the same bone chilling joy that i did. The satisfaction after the conclusion is very Has EVERYTHING a horror movie should have. Great music, great plot, great acting, great characters, great suspence, great twits. Literally I could not have asked for more. I promise you will walk out with the same bone chilling joy that i did. The satisfaction after the conclusion is very strong and very obvious amoung the audience.… Expand

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PeterS.

Nov 10, 2006

A promising beginning hour and a twisted movie in all. Shows potential to have a horror genre impact but instead falls short with a predictable and meaningless ending. Still, in general, a spooky and well made horror movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar is better than thing that she was in The A promising beginning hour and a twisted movie in all. Shows potential to have a horror genre impact but instead falls short with a predictable and meaningless ending. Still, in general, a spooky and well made horror movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar is better than thing that she was in The Grudge and The Grudge 2.… Expand

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Riren

Mar 6, 2007

The first half is like a rejected draft of a Silent Hill movie, while the second is a disappointingly illogical explanation for the first. Even the soundtrack wants more action out of the characters than they are willing to provide, and the acting is far too dull for all the shadows and The first half is like a rejected draft of a Silent Hill movie, while the second is a disappointingly illogical explanation for the first. Even the soundtrack wants more action out of the characters than they are willing to provide, and the acting is far too dull for all the shadows and shaky camera tricks to hide. The lack of thrills and content isn't made up for by the languishing suspense and bursts of ill-fitting violence. The Return is only recommended to horror/thriller lovers who want another odd plot to unravel in their spare time.… Expand

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FitriAmirrol

Nov 19, 2010

The Return is aimless, muddled and honestly lacking of any kind of scare or suspense. On top of that, the twist is too hard to grasp, not to mention uninspired and it regrettably features one of the most demented and forgettable performances by horror queen Gellar. Youâ

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