Supernatural & Occult, Genre Hybrids, Movements & Traditions
The Returning
1990
An obsessive ghost love story
Directed by John Day
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Intensity
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
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- Director
- John Day
- Written by
- Clinton Phillips, John Day
- Produced by
- Trishia Downie
- Composer
- Clive Cockburn
- Cinematographer
- Kevin Hayward
- Editor
- Simon Clothier
- Origin countries
- New Zealand, United States
- Production country
- New Zealand
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Language
- English
- TMDB
- 7.5/10 (3 votes)
- IMDb
- 5.5/10 (34 votes)
Released December 10, 1990·$1,500,000 budget
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