“The Return”, not to be mistaken with “The Grudge”, returns (har har) Sarah Michelle Gellar to horror territory as a traveling (and brunette!) businesswoman who begins getting strange visions of a murder that occurred 15 years ago, leading her to a farmhouse out in Podunk America, where she will invariably encounter inbred yokums and the like. I mean, this is an American horror movie set in rural areas, so of course everyone who isn’t a city slicker will be as broadly drawn as Anna Nicole Smith’s IQ.
The company line:
Joanna Mills is a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. She has made a successful career for herself, as sales representative for a trucking company; but her private life has been difficult. Estranged from her father, stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend, and with few friends in her life, Joanna fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder of a young woman she’s never met, at the hands of a heartless killer–a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target. Determined to fight back, Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman’s hometown. Once there, she will discover that some secrets can’t be buried; some spirits never die; and that the murder she is trying to solve may be her own.
Here are some stills of Sarah Michelle doing the Nancy Drew bit. “The Return” returns to theaters November 10, 2006. Check out the trailer here.
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