SG Train to Busan is the best zombie movie since 28 Days Later

What is it about zombie apocalypse movies that keep us coming back hungry for more? Whether it’s the unashamed gore spraying across the screen or just the survivalist elements in these terrible situations, the genre has had its gems and turkeys over the years. From the classics like George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead to the comedies such as Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland - and then of course The Walking Dead TV series - the undead clearly show no sign of stopping. But what if you take these flesh-eating freaks and do something that, on the face of it sounds like a silly B-movie at best?

SG Train to Busan has broken Asian box office records

You’ve heard of Snakes on a Plane, but what about zombies on a train, the basic premise for Train to Busan - the Korean horror from debut director Yeon Sang-ho - which has taken the Asian box office by storm. As of mid-September, Train to Busan has grossed £81 million before it’s opened in any Western market, with the thriller becoming the highest-grossing Korean film in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Just what is it about this movie that has hoards of cinema-goers rushing to feast on its horrific delights? TOP HALLOWEEN TRAVEL HORROR MOVIES MOMENTS HERE

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Set in modern day Korea, the film sees banker Seok Woo (Gong Yoo) taking his daughter (Ahn Soothe) on - you guessed it - a train to Busan on the southern coast. However the undead epidemic unleashes its flesh-eating fury in the capital Seoul and one of the infected jumps on the locomotive just as it's leaving the station. One by one the diverse group of passengers are bitten by the rapid undead - reminiscent of the ones in World War Z - as they advance their way up the train in each nail-biting scene. With some of the best zombie makeup in film to date, the terrifying, juttering monstrosities are a thrill to watch, as the survivors make valiant efforts to hold them off. What’s crucial to Train to Busan’s success is director Sang-ho’s mixture of horrifying tension and pace with its telling moral commentary in a life and death situation.

SG Train to Busan's zombies are terrifying, juttering monstrosities

While it’s an unmissable thrill-fest, the film doesn’t quite hit the five star mark with its unnecessarily slow start - something Zac Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake gets right in contrast with a jump straight into the bloody action. Train to Busan’s other let down is its host of genre cliched characters. The lead father with his vulnerable child has been done to death in The Walking Dead and fellow post-apocalyptics like The Road and hit video game The Last of Us - which is soon to be adapted for the big screen. Then there’s the comic-relief muscle man and his pregnant wife going up against the cowardly businessman, who’ll do anything to sacrifice his own skin.

SG Train to Busan suffers slightly from cliched zombie film characters