The dead coming back to life are a staple of the horror genre, but it’s rare to see a reanimated corpse that doesn’t sport the feral demeanor of a zombie. That’s just one of the things that makes Revival, a new SyFy series based on the Image Comics series of the same name, so special.
It all begins in a morgue, an appropriate place to open a show about the undead. It’s an average night in Wausau, Wisconsin — that is, until a cadaver suddenly bursts out of a crematory chamber, limbs engulfed in flame. Every Wausau resident who passed away within the fortnight quickly follows suit, tearing their way out of body bags, clawing through soil after their burial. It’s naturally horrifying to some residents, like Dana Cypress (Melanie Scrofano), a reluctant deputy sheriff who’s one of the first on the scene. For others, it’s nothing short of a miracle: who wouldn’t want to see their lost family members return to the land of the living?
