Thursday, October 11, 2018

Day 11: Favorite Zombie Film - Train to Busan


Train to Busan is a Korean horror film starring Gong Yoo (who also starred in one of my favorite K-dramas - Goblin). He plays a somewhat self-absorbed father, who reluctantly agrees to take his daughter to visit her mother, a woman he is no longer with.

At their stop, after boarding, a young lady runs onto the train, clearly in distress, and we see that she's been bitten and thus begins the spread of the virus onboard. This is not your typical zombie film. This movie is very character driven, you really care about these people and when they begin dying, it's incredibly upsetting. I sobbed throughout the entire last hour of the movie. It was not as all what I expected from a zombie film and I was so pleasantly surprised by it. I'm not a fan of zombie films in general, but this has definitely become one of my favorite movies.

Fun fact: Not one character in this movie uses a gun to kill the zombies. It's more realistic than any other movie of its kind because no one carries an entire arsenal with them just in case the zombie apocalypse happens.

Honorable Mention: My Boyfriend's Back - This movie can't even compare to Train to Busan, but to be fair, it's a totally different kind of zombie film. This is a comedy with a cast that includes Matthew Fox, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Matthew McConaughey. It's about a teenage boy, Johnny, who goes to ask a girl to prom, while she's working at a convenience store, and is shot during what was supposed to be a staged robbery. Johnny set up the fake robbery in an attempt to impress Missy by "saving" her, and didn't realize that a real robber entered the store instead. So he's actually kind of a jerk.

Johnny dies and becomes a zombie. It's later explained that he wasn't meant to die at that moment and whenever someone dies before their time, they apparently return to earth as a zombie and their actions as a zombie determine whether or not they'll get another chance at life. It's a completely ridiculous movie, but I saw it when I was a kid and the nostalgia makes me still love it. There's also a really nice song by the MMC during the prom scene and it's my favorite thing about the entire film.

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