Train to Busan 🚄
Happy Thursday! Welcome to Leo season. Looking for something socially distanced to do this weekend? IFC Films’ The Rental will be playing at drive-ins starting tomorrow. You can read my full review here.
Today’s indoor movie is the South Korean action-horror Train to Busan (2016)—streaming on Prime Video and Netflix. Just as I started to become jaded by the onslaught of zombie movies this came along and… reanimated my interest. Clearly I wasn’t the only person smitten (bitten?), it’s the sixth highest-grossing film of all time at the Korean box office.
Here’s what it’s about: As an outbreak of the undead plagues the nation, the passengers on an express train to the city of Busan must band together to survive. [Trailer // 118 mins]
Why you should watch it: The zombie movie has gone through more than one cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. However, Train to Busan breathes new life into the genre. Instead of making a zombie movie, director Yeon Sang-ho set out to make a character-based acti…