The Cured on DVD – The DVDfever Review

The Cured

The Cured has an interesting premise in that, after a zombie outbreak, someone managed to cure a number of them, so they can rejoin the rest of society… but are they REALLY cured? What do you think?! After all, why else would they make such a film?

75% are deemed fine, including Abbie’s (Ellen Page) brother-in-law, Senan (Sam Keeley), but there’s still an issue with the other 25% (for those who missed maths class), known as the Resistant, but either way, in this world, you can still be part of the undead AND a productive member of society as they’ll give you a job.

The virus which infected this lot is known as the Maze virus and, coincidentally, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor stars as one of the lead zombies, Conor, and he also took the lead in Maze, about the break-out from that prison. Michael Schofield eat your heart out… or let this lot do it for you.


Ellen Page is a bit scared about her career.


There are many decent zombie movies out there, but this is not one of them. It relies all too often on ridiculous jump-scares, such as when someone is attacked by a zombie that’s going deadly-fast, but made zero sound before that split-second when they appeared on camera. Ugh, pur-lease!

Occasionally, it tries to throw tension in there, but it never works. Anything decent happens just off-camera and, at times, I keep expecting this to go down the comedy route, a la Shaun of the Dead, but no, it’s being dead serious! (pun not intended)

As an aside, for those who are 0% zombie, and yet work with the Resistant, NO amount of danger money would be worth that in real life!

The real question is: Can a *career* cure be found for Ellen Page, who starred in the godawful remake of Flatliners?

There’s still a couple of trailers for other films before the main menu appears, as if we’re still in the age of rental video. This keeps happening on discs from a lot of studios. I keep saying it. I still hate it. I wish they’d stop. They never listen. Etc.


Sam Keeley’s feeling a little bit under the weather…


The film is presented in the original 2.35:1 theatrical ratio and in anamorphic widescreen, and like most DVDs – which is why I stick to Blu-rays where released – the picture is very soft, indeed, if you’re used to a HD picture.

The audio is in Dolby Digital 5.1, not that you’d really realise, since it’s either silence with talking, or lots of gnarling sounds from the zombies.

I also can’t believe this is an Arrow release. Their titles are usually stuffed with extras. This disc only has one: a featurette (6:08), which is a bog-standard piece with clips from the film mixed with soundbites from the cast and crew, and the kind of filler Sky uses inbetween films.

There’s a bog-standard 12 chapters and subtitles are in English. It’s all very bare bones.

The Cured is released on Monday on DVD, and check out the full-size cover by clicking on the packshot.


The Cured – Theatrical Trailer…


FILM
PICTURE QUALITY
SOUND QUALITY
EXTRAS
2
7
7
1
OVERALL 4


Detailed specs:
Cert:
Running time: 91 mins
Year: 2018
Distributor: Arrow Films
Released: May 11th 2018
Chapters: 12
Cat.no: FCD1746
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Widescreen: 2.35:1
Disc Format: DVD9

Director: David Freyne
Producers: Rory Dungan, Rachael O’Kane and Ellen Page
screenplay: David Freyne
Music: Rory Friers

Abbie: Ellen Page
Senan: Sam Keeley
Conor: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Cantor: Stuart Graham
Dr. Lyons: Paula Malcomson
Allison: Natalia Kostrzewa
Jo Landecker: Hilda Fay
Catherine: Sarah Kinlen


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