‘#Alive’: 5 Zombie Movies to Watch if You Loved the Netflix Film – Newsweek

#Alive is the perfect movie for people living in a global pandemic who want to watch as an even worse pandemic hits. The movie, which is currently number two in the U.S. Netflix movie charts, shows what would happen if a zombie outbreak hits a Korea where all digital forms of communication have been cut. The results, as zombie fans will be pleased to hear, are pure gory havoc, as one man has to survive in. a tower block on his own.

#Alive is part of a recent wave of brutal zombie movies from South Korea and the rest of the world which fans of the Netflix movie are sure to love. From the carnage of Train to Busan to the metafictional trickery of One Cut of the Dead, here are some brain-splattered horror classics you should search out next.

Train to Busan, 2016

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The recent spate of Korean zombie films can be traced to Train to Busan, the story of a zombie outbreak on a train that broke audience records across Asia and in Korea itself. The movie, which Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright called the "best zombie movie I've seen in forever," has been compared to Snowpiercer, another Korean movie set on a train. However, Train to Busan sets itself apart from the Bong-joon Ho film with its own mix of zombie violence and social commentary, as our lead character learns that the outbreak has something to do with the company he works for.

One Cut of the Dead, 2017

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Truly a one-of-a-kind movie in a genre that often feels derivative, One Cut of the Dead is a low-budget horror-comedy that went from showing in one small Japan cinema to worldwide acclaim. On the way, it made over 1,000 times its original budget in the international box office.

The story of the movie is best left a surprise to the new viewer, but let's just say that the film begins with the shoot of a zombie film interrupted by a real zombie outbreak and only gets weirder and more high-concept from there.

Rampant, 2018

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Though a box office disappointment that received mixed reviews from critics, Rampant has since become a cult movie among Asian horror aficionados. While most zombie movies take place in the world of grey tower blocks and concrete, this film brings cruel and creepy hordes of the undead to 17th century Korea. Like #Alive, the besieged royalty have no digital communications, but unlike that film, the characters do have massive swords.

The Night Eats The World, 2018

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video and Hoopla

Though made half-way across the world from Korea in France (though filmed in English), The Night Eats the World has some big similarities to #Alive. Both are ultimately about one person trying to survive in a tower block as the world around them gets taken over by the walking. In a nice detail, however, the zombies of The Night Eats the World are silent, meaning that our hero is always at risk from suddenly being set upon by fast-moving zombies without realizing.

Seoul Station, 2016

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Train to Busan was such a breakout hit for South Korea that it soon got a whole host of prequels and sequels. Though the 2020 follow-up Peninsula is not streaming in the U.S. yet and got mixed responses from critics, animated prequel Seoul Station was more of a critical hit, with many viewers loving how the animation allowed the creators to do gruesome things that they would be unable to do in live-action.

#Alive is streaming now on Netflix.

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