The Korean film industry is experiencing something of a zombie resurrection. While all eyes are on the international success of addictive K-dramas and Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award-winning film Parasite, the country's filmmakers are also creating some of the most ambitious, unsettling and even comedic entries to the zombie genre. The renewed K-zombie movie trend arguably began with Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016
Perhaps most interesting about Korean zombie movies is how the apocalyptic visions offer a dash of social criticism—hitting at the rigidity of class structures, the encroachment of technological advances, or the collapse of society after the random introduction of a viral pathogen. Essentially, these Korean movies aren’t all just made to get easy scares from flesh eating monsters.
These zombie movies have a little bit of everything—psychological thrillers, body horror, class allegories, and even a historical drama, all unified under their shared subject matter: the undead.
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The Gong Woo-led movie follows a group of travelers fighting for their lives aboard a zombie-infested high-speed train hurtling to one of the last safe places in the country. The film's powerful class commentary shows the benefit of taking collective action over prioritizing individual survival. Critics pointed out how the movie may be a response to the Sewol ferry disaster of 2014 that left 300 dead, including around 250 teenagers.
The kind of body horror that fans of the genre know and love. This time, the survivors of the zombie apocalypse in the Korean Peninsula are safe and sound in Hong Kong. That is, until Jung-seok (played by Gang Dong) gets caught up in a scheme to recover $20 million back in Seoul. Yeon Sang-ho returns to direct this hybrid zombie-heist thriller, choosing to wander through the eerie CGI post-apocalyptic wasteland that has few human survivors.
Follows a spacey gamer who is stuck in the house while a zombie apocalypse rages at his doorstep. He’s running out of food, and it’s not like zombies give up on a siege. As the days pass and the situation continues to devolve into the end of times, he makes contact with a neighbor and together they plot their escape.
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When a rural town suffers from a series of inexplicable murders, a country detective investigates the events under the shadow of a mysterious plague. Na Hong-jin directs this police procedural with a keen ability to harness suspicion and dread. Complicating matters is the arrival of a Japanese migrant who possesses malicious supernatural powers, according to the superstitious townspeople.
Imagines Seoul's lockdown at the start of the zombie outbreak. The movie follows former sex worker Hye-sun, who is searching for her pimp-slash-boyfriend amidst the chaos. While
Looks closer at the lives who are at the margins and most likely to be cast aside in a cataclysmic event. In fact, one of the first zombies is an old homeless man, yet his affliction is ignored due to his age and social status.
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Follows the broke, dysfunctional Park family who are down on their luck. To make money, they manufacture car accidents and live off the cash they extort from the unwitting drivers who think they caused the wreck. Meanwhile, a pharmaceutical company is just reaping the aftermath of a secret drug trial–it looks like the abducted trial “volunteers” have turned into flesh eating monsters, with one test subject escaping the facility and taking shelter at the Park family’s gas station. Once the family discovers that the zombie bite purportedly makes everyone feel younger and healthier, the Parks charge everyone in town for a bite. Cue the unintended consequences.
, Yim Pil-sung’s sleek anthology film that dives into three different rapture scenarios, the end of the world isn’t the stuff of the Book of Revelations. Instead, it’s a zombie apocalypse, an asteroid strike, and a robot takeover. These scenarios might sound quite terrifying, but the film itself is absurdist and nimble, and indulges in comedy and introspection to critique Korean politics. Even the creation of zombies is handled with a degree of humor: The triggering biological event occurs when a man eats a rotten apple that leads to toxic materials entering the food chain, turning everyone into the living dead.
Fame stars in this visually rich historical drama set in the Joseon Dynasty—with a twist. Namely, it features flesh-eating demons. A genre mashup of court intrigue and a zombie thriller make this Kim Sung-hoon directed flick a satisfying watch. Hyun plays a prince in the throes of a political crisis–the current king spends his time kowtowing to the neighboring Qing empire while the war minister plots his own rebellion. Throw in the nocturnal zombies and you have a certified
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Style movie in conversation with Korea’s history of geopolitical crises, which tended to favor the powerful while leaving regular people in the dust.
A modern day retelling of the Arabian nights, a Korean Scheherazade is kidnapped by a serial killer who can only fall asleep when told scary stories. Four directors helm each part of this anthology film, which runs the gamut from zombie horror to terrorist attacks to nightmarish plastic surgery. As for the zombie story, aptly titled “Ambulance on the Death Zone?” In that segment, a group of survivors race through the zombie-infested streets aboard an ambulance hurtling to nowhere. But there’s a problem: There’s a mysterious scar on the little girl’s wrist. Could it be a zombie bite?
–one of the masterpieces of contemporary Korean cinema that deals with North-South relations–this slow burn follows a platoon on the Korean Demilitarized Zone that disappears following the outbreak of a virus. Army operatives find dismembered corpses upon their investigation and must piece together exactly what happened to the dead soldiers. Director Kong Su-chang tells the story through a series of flashbacks that grow more unsettling as the film wears on.
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’s strength lies in its plot: The first four minutes set up a story that becomes eerily familiar. A gamer, played by Yoo Ah-in (
), has to stay inside his apartment unit after the building gets infested with the undead. It’s only a matter of time before he runs out of water and food, and of what’s left of his sanity. As the trailer has already revealed, he finds another survivor, a wall climber living across his unit, played by Park Shin-hye (
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Conventionally, zombie shows and movies employ the tried-and-tested formula of lulling viewers into boredom and complacency before the next big scare hits them. However, this resonates more with the viewers now because of the quarantine measures imposed on us amid the pandemic. Like the protagonist, we may have locked ourselves in our rooms to play video games to momentarily forget that nothing grim is happening outside. We also manage our food supplies for the week. On top of all these, we also long to meet friends and family, and regret not hugging them before the pandemic.
Subtly shows that humans are social animals, and the most introverted person you see can still crave for company. Being alone for an extended period of time can also be a delayed death sentence. Had the gamer not seen a laser pointer beamed at him and learned that he was not alone, he would have ended his life. This subplot in the movie can speak a lot about the mental health of people who are under stay-at-home orders.
. The thrilling zombie movie reminds us that “we are still here, ” hoping to survive an outbreak a pandemic we continue to learn to navigate.Flu (Korean: 감기 ; RR: Gamgi; alternatively titled The Flu) is a 2013 South Korean medical disaster film writt and directed by Kim Sung-su, about an outbreak of a deadly strain of H5N1 that kills its victims within 36 hours, throwing the district of Bundang in Seongnam, which has a population of nearly half a million people, into chaos. It stars Jang Hyuk, Soo Ae and Park Min-ha.
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Brothers Ju Byung-woo and Ju Byung-ki are smugglers in Seoul who find that illegal immigrants have died in a shipping container from an unknown illness. They take sole survivor Monssai and cellphone video of the bodies to show their boss in Bundang, but Byung-woo becomes sick and Monssai escapes. The brothers go to a clinic where the contagion is passed on to others who spread it throughout the city.
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