Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.
This murky psychological horror effort is not likely to inspire a return.
– Frank Scheck,
Hollywood Reporter,
13 Nov 2006
rotten:
Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense.
– Gregory Kirschling,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Nov 2006
rotten:
[The Return is] more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
17 Nov 2006
fresh:
It's gripping stuff and deeply enjoyable.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
15 Jan 2007
fresh:
Adam Sussman's script is so thin you can see right through it.