A workaholic father takes his daughter aboard a train to see
her mother. A woman bitten by a zombie and
stumbles aboard the train just as it is leaving the depot. She soon becomes zombified and begins biting
other passengers, spreading the virus throughout the train.
Train to Busan is a zombie movie, but it also functions as a
metaphor for how one should act during a crisis. Our hero is selfish and is only concerned
with saving himself and his daughter. She
is a bit more idealistic (or naïve, depending on your point of view) and tries
to help others aboard the train. (“You
only care about yourself. That’s why mom
left.”) Naturally, her father slowly
learns not to be so selfish throughout the ordeal.
The group of survivors that band together are pretty
interesting for this sort of thing. We
have a pregnant couple, a pair of elderly sisters, and a baseball team. There’s also a bit of an implied class
struggle going on as the one rich asshole constantly forces the porters to cave
in to his demands during the attack.
The zombie attacks on the train are simple yet
effective. The World War Z type of
zombies seen later in the picture at various train stations are less successful,
but it is kind of cool to see them spilling into rooms in hordes and falling
off rooftops and second story windows like lemmings. I’ll admit, some of the new zombie rules are
kind of lame (they can’t see in the dark?!?) and the two-hour running time
could’ve been a lot shorter. However,
the ending, while predictable, hits all the right notes.
In short, this was a great way to end Netflix and Kill. Sure, I watched thirty-one horror movies in
thirty-one days (although it took me thirty-two to review them all), but that
doesn’t mean the horror is going to stop.
I’ve still have plenty of horror movie reviews in the pipe for a column
I’ll be calling Halloween Hangover, which should probably take up most of
November.
AKA: Invasion Zombie.
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