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Director
Yeon Sang-ho
Year
2016
Runtime
118 min

Also released as

  • Invasión Zombie
  • Voz za Busan
  • Invasão Zumbi
  • Train to Bushan
  • 釜山行
  • Estación Zombie
  • Tren a Busan
  • ด่วนนรก ซอมบี้คลั่ง
  • Busanhaeng
  • 屍速列車
  • הרכבת לבוסאן
  • Vlak do Pusanu
  • 屍殺列車
  • 新 感染 ファイナル・エクスプレス
  • 新感染 ファイナル・エクスプレス:2016
  • Поезд в Пусан
  • قطار بوسان
  • Estación Zombie: Tren a Busan
  • Το εξπρές των ζωντανών νεκρών
  • قطار إلى بوسان
  • Trem para Busan

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Train to Busan

Train to Busan is a 2016 South Korean zombie film directed by Yeon Sang-ho.

The best zombie film since Romero, and the only one that makes you cry.

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A fund manager takes his neglected daughter to Busan on the KTX. The outbreak boards with them.

What separates it from every other fast-zombie film is that the carriages give it a structure: the survivors have to move through a fixed sequence of spaces, and each one is a different problem. The tunnel sequence, where the infected cannot see, is the best staged set piece in modern horror.

It is also unambiguously about class, and the businessman who keeps sealing doors on other people is not subtle. Ma Dong-seok is the reason a large number of people watched anything else Korean.

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