It stars Renate Reinsve, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars and Inesa Dauksta.

[3] Three grieving families find their dead loved ones have returned after an unexplained event occurs.

Anna returns from working the night shift and sees the child in his bed.

Elias has been deceased for some time as he appears to be in an advanced stage of decay with flies always buzzing around him.

The hospital is unsure of how Eva has survived and tells David that tests must be run.

Oslo residents wake up to find many of the dead roaming the streets or beating on their buried coffins.

Flora wakes up at a lover’s home after running to him after hearing of her mother’s accident.

David tries to celebrate Kian’s birthday, which was the day after the accident, as he and Eva had planned by giving him a pet rabbit.

When she returns she sees a decomposing man near the cottage who begins to tap on the window.

In August 2022, it was announced Renate Reinsve, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars and Inesa Dauksta had joined the cast of the film, with Thea Hvistendahl directing from a screenplay she wrote alongside John Ajvide Lindqvist, based upon the novel of the same name, with Nordisk Film set to distribute in Norway.

The website's consensus reads: "A grounded zombie picture with emotional bite, Handling the Undead shuffles along at a patient pace but succeeds as a poignant and thoughtful addition to the genre.

"[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.