The actors impress as always in Korea, putting tons of energy and heart into their performances, and as an action-horror film this is difficult to surpass. The CGI effects are pretty good although occasionally weak, but that doesn't matter a jot when everything else is so well portrayed. It starts off eerie and foreboding and then builds a momentum that never flags right up until the end. A workaholic who never has much time for his young daughter Su-an. It owes more to the Hollywood disaster movies on the 1970s such as The Poseidon Adventure or the Airport films. This is a visceral journey that has the viewer on the edge of his or her train seat for much of the running time. Train to Busan (Busanhaeng) is a South Korean survivalist zombie movie. The characters are realistic, well-drawn, and appealing, and there's plenty of sentiment while at the same time the film narrowly avoids falling into melodrama. The reason this film succeeds where others fail is down to the characterisation, which is superb for a straight horror tale. And yet it also happens to be thoroughly gripping, exciting, and indeed excellent, thanks to the skill of director Yeon Sang-ho who is known for his animated features like KING OF PIGS. This film is straightforward enough, with a simple premise: zombies on a train. That changes with TRAIN TO BUSAN, a Hollywood-feel film that owes more than a debt of inspiration to WORLD WAR Z in its depiction of fast, feral zombies that amass into a CGI-animated crowd on occasion.

South Korea has made plenty of horror films over the last couple of decades, but very few of them have been zombie films the country typically favours ghost or psycho tales like WHISPERING CORRIDORS or I SAW THE DEVIL. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 8 / 10 Zombie horror masterwork from Korea

The characters are nicely fleshed out and this is one of the better zombie movies. The director has done well in maintaining tension and a claustrophobic atmosphere before moving the action to other places. The zombies have been inspired by World War Z as at times they can be fast moving. As the train journey continues, they get picked off one by one. With Gong Yoo, Yu-mi Jung, Ma Dong-seok, Su-an Kim. Survivors include Seok-woo and his daughter, a pregnant woman and her macho husband, two elderly sisters, members of a high school baseball team, a selfish tycoon and a few others. Train to Busan: Directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Some of the survivors try to move quickly to the safe carriages. She had been bitten and becomes infected by some type of virus that turns her into a flesh eating zombie.Īs she bites others, they too become infected and in turn attack other passengers and staff. An injured young woman scrambles onto the train before it leaves Seoul. They board a train so she can visit her mother.

Train to Busan (Busanhaeng) is a South Korean survivalist zombie movie. Reviewed by Prismark10 7 / 10 Train to Busan

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