Directed by Damien Ounouri, who wrote the story with Adila Bendimerad (who stars as Nfissa), this is a dark tale of what can happen at the beach. This movie is from Algeria and one of the first I’ve seen from there.

Nfissa is a young mother who is violently sexually harassed before she is drowned by several young men. After all, all she did was swim among them. At the same time, her family is wondering where she is, as no one else seems to care that she is gone.

Many people have died on this beach, enough that the dead who come back are well-known by the locals, and now Nfissa can breath under the water, which means that she will certainly get her revenge on the men who so easily threw her away.

The cops are about as solid as the ones in a giallo, so when one tells Nfissa’s husband, “I’ve never seen a woman become a jellyfish without reason,” you may wonder what he means. A jellyfish is what they call these zombies. Yet to me, the true horror of this is that she must be lured by her husband back to these uncaring police and destroyed all over again, because that’s what happens in this world.

You can watch this and pretend that it’s just a movie or that it’s set in another country but the sad truth is that things like this — look, I know women don’t transform into zombies every day, allow me my soapbox — happen every single day and we’ve become so desensitized to violence against everyone because we have the news looking for fresh meat for their 24/7 endless charnel house and we turn to murder TV for pleasure now, staring as people ask for a break and cry and the cameras just keep rolling.

I don’t know the answer. Maybe we deserve the zombies.

Kindil is part of the new Severin box set, All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2.

You can order this set from Severin.