Abstract
ABSTRACT Les Revenants, a Canal+ TV series about a small town whose dead return to life, was one of the biggest critical and popular successes of the 2010s on the domestic and international markets. While the series has been discussed by the French popular press as part of a concerted effort among French production companies to compete in long-form serial television, its engagement with the tradition of French horror has been less well understood. This essay examines how the series brings a distinctly French sense of the fantastic into an international media landscape in which Hollywood films have typically defined the global idiom of horror around sensation and the body. In so doing, the article suggests that French films and series have played an important role in redefining what horror can mean in the early twenty-first century.
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