Train to busan.
Been wanting to see this one for a long time.
Did not dissapoint. A true recommendation.
Very creative setting for a zombie flick. And good acting too. (Visually, don't understand the language so can't comment on that.) Good feel for tension. Very claustrophobic. Little use of jump scares, but still good at getting you to the edge of your seat. A good rush over all. A smaller story than 28 days later, but better for it. More compact, allowing for bigger impact. More realistic this way: like a snippet into a catastrophe, cutting away from the disaster before you're bored of it. A taste leaving you wanting more. A smaller story that thus manages to grip you by the balls.
Even a bit of self-reflection for the main protagonist with the older corporate bigshot as the main human antagonist and his possible future. As all the best zombie stories are about something else than actual zombies, underneath the skin.
And most important of all: consistent zombies.
While I am more of a fan of the classic, slow zombie. Rather than fast infected... It's most important, to me, that the zombies are consistent. I've been watching the walking dead, into season 3 right now. It's not bad, though I've heard ill of further seasons. But the inconsistent zombie-rules keep pulling me out of it. Depending on the plotthey can only stagger, then again they can run. They can smell or recognize the living unless they are camouflaged, except when the living just lie down on the middle of the road pretending to be corpses. They rot and decay, but they continue to do so for extreme periods of time without losing in mobility or muscle-strentgh. (I've heard the story's progressed over 6 years?) They are only attracted to screaming living victims, and not things that are already dead. That's why in the barn they're fed with chicken with a broken leg. But then when the convict wants to use them for a trap he can lure them with a bloody heart....
Anyway, this was about train to busan, not my gripe with TWD.
Very refreshing yet familiar take on the zombie film. The daylight, the tone of the movie... It's zombies, but from a genuine unique, similar yet different, approach.
Been wanting to see this one for a long time.
Did not dissapoint. A true recommendation.
Very creative setting for a zombie flick. And good acting too. (Visually, don't understand the language so can't comment on that.) Good feel for tension. Very claustrophobic. Little use of jump scares, but still good at getting you to the edge of your seat. A good rush over all. A smaller story than 28 days later, but better for it. More compact, allowing for bigger impact. More realistic this way: like a snippet into a catastrophe, cutting away from the disaster before you're bored of it. A taste leaving you wanting more. A smaller story that thus manages to grip you by the balls.
Even a bit of self-reflection for the main protagonist with the older corporate bigshot as the main human antagonist and his possible future. As all the best zombie stories are about something else than actual zombies, underneath the skin.
And most important of all: consistent zombies.
While I am more of a fan of the classic, slow zombie. Rather than fast infected... It's most important, to me, that the zombies are consistent. I've been watching the walking dead, into season 3 right now. It's not bad, though I've heard ill of further seasons. But the inconsistent zombie-rules keep pulling me out of it. Depending on the plotthey can only stagger, then again they can run. They can smell or recognize the living unless they are camouflaged, except when the living just lie down on the middle of the road pretending to be corpses. They rot and decay, but they continue to do so for extreme periods of time without losing in mobility or muscle-strentgh. (I've heard the story's progressed over 6 years?) They are only attracted to screaming living victims, and not things that are already dead. That's why in the barn they're fed with chicken with a broken leg. But then when the convict wants to use them for a trap he can lure them with a bloody heart....
Anyway, this was about train to busan, not my gripe with TWD.
Very refreshing yet familiar take on the zombie film. The daylight, the tone of the movie... It's zombies, but from a genuine unique, similar yet different, approach.
"If we go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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