Train To Busan (Busanhaeng)

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What is it?

The 2016 South Korean action-horror movie Train To Busan (Busanhaeng).

What is it about?

This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:

TRAIN TO BUSAN is a harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has managed to hold off the zombie hordes… or so everyone hopes.

My Thoughts

I found out about this movie during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine, some commenters said that it was the best zombie movie that they had seen, which surprised me because I had never heard of this movie before.

A sequel of this movie called Peninsula (Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula) will be coming out soon, and so I decided to watch this movie on Netflix before it comes out.

To my surprise this was possibly among the best zombie movies that I have ever seen, definitely the best zombie movie that I have seen in several years, it is a shame that this movie came out several years ago without most people knowing about it.

Most people still do not know about it, probably because it is a South Korean movie that is not dubbed in English, but to my surprise reading the English subtitles did not bother me and I adjusted to it almost instantly.

The actors and actresses playing the zombies did a good job with contorting their bodies and acting wild, the acting was better than I had expected, there were emotional moments that brought a few tears to my eyes (I did not cry though), there was tension, the special effects were better than I had expected, there were some nice action scenes, and the ending was not bad.

The end,

-John Jr