Zombie movies go one way or the other. They're either brilliant or they are totally shit. They can vary from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which falls at the lower end of the scale, or Shaun of the Dead - which is a Pegg and Frost classic.
Mind you, Shaun of the Dead is now 13-years-old, and nothing has taken our fancy for a while. That is until now, as Korean film Train to Busan seems to have awoken everybody from their zombie-like slumber after being added to Netflix.
The film follows a divorced workaholic fund manager who takes his young daughter to visit her mother right when a zombie outbreak begins (talk about being down on your luck, eh?).
Of course there, is the usual activity of a plague, panic, lockdown, and a wailing man saying 'all dead, everyone's dead'.
Credit: Zero Media/ Train to Brusan
The film begins with the father getting mad when his daughter gives up her seat for an elderly woman, telling her that she needs to look after herself.
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The wise-head-on-old-shoulders daughter replies: "You only care about yourself, that's why Mum left." A theme that is repeated throughout the film.
A claustrophobic train carriage seems to rack up the drama as zombies move from carriage to carriage. The space narrows as the number of undead increases.
The zombies in this flick are fast movers, and lunge at their victims - but - if a coat is thrown over them, they stop. This brings about some pressure-relieving moments when a train goes through a tunnel and the heroes can sneak by the zombies who are static.
Since being added to Netflix, viewers have been taking to Twitter to recommend the zombie move.
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The only question that remains, what if this was real? Would we know how to survive a zombie apocalypse?
Thankfully, ex-Marine of two Iraq tours, Jon Davis, has the answer of how to cope with such conditions. He mentions that survival depends on a variety of factors: how is the condition spread? Does it evolve?
Davis concludes: "The only assumptions we can make about causing zombie casualties is that firepower to a zombie's brain or burning corpse will be effective. So, you need to assume you have unlimited ammunition or a way to build a burning trench surrounding your colony of survivors. But if you don't you'll be screwed."
Great.
Featured Image Credit: Zero Media/Train To Busan
