He has also used the potential pandemic to round up anyone of questionable immigration status, or outspoken views and placed them in camps just outside the container wall. The President’s next steps are to nuke the menace, an event that will double as “a fourth of July celebration”. The city that never sleeps has been walled off, seemingly containing the zombie plague. With Busan declared as the only safe city, the father must figure out a way to keep them alive on the train ride.Dave Bautista battles the Army of the Dead in Zack Snyder’s latest movie.Ĭut to a trademark slo-mo montage of violence and scantily clad women which details the fall of America’s “sin city” (cleverly scored to Elvis Presley’s Viva Las Vegas), before the ticking clock of a plot is laid out.
But things soon turn sour as an epidemic that is spreading through the country and turning infected into zombies also ends up on their train.
In it, on her birthday, a divorced dad takes his daughter to see the mom in Busan, less than three hours by train from their home in Seoul. Naturally, Train to Busan was a certified box office hit in its domestic market, attracting over 10 million to theatres, in a country of 51 million. And writer-director Edgar Wright, known for the acclaimed zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, called it the “best zombie movie seen in forever”. It's got class commentary, like the Oscar-winning Korean film Parasite. Some have described this Korean flick as World War Z - it too has fast-moving zombies - with a stronger emotional centre. Watch World War Z on Amazon Prime Video, JioCinema, Apple TV, Google Play, or YouTube China's ban on zombie movies is said to be the reason. No wonder then that a sequel was greenlit shortly after, with David Fincher signing on as director a few years later, but it fell through close to the start of filming. Like 28 Days Later, World War Z was commended for reinvigorating the realistic side of the zombie genre, and was rewarded with $540 million at the global box office - the highest-ever total for a zombie movie to date.
Naturally, the film is also a fast-paced action thriller, which features a former United Nations investigator (Pitt) traversing the globe to find a cure for the outbreak before it takes over the world. Bitten people turn into zombies as fast as well, sometimes in less than 15 seconds. Speaking of fast-moving zombies, no other film on this list does them as fast as World War Z, the Brad Pitt-starrer that's based on Max Brooks' 2006 book of the same name. Watch 28 Weeks Later on Apple TV, Google Play, or YouTube Watch 28 Days Later on Apple TV, Google Play, or YouTube The two films also popularised the use of fast-moving zombies. Some consider 28 Weeks Later to be a superior movie. 28 Days Later has some terrific political parallels, courtesy of writer Alex Garland, who would go on to make films such as Ex Machina. The 2007 sequel that takes place nearly six months later follows a different set of individuals, as the NATO military lands on British soil to rehabilitate the devastated country.īoth films present a dark and depressing view of the world, showing how humans are at times even worse off than zombies. It follows four survivors in a post-apocalyptic United Kingdom as they do their best to stay away from the infected. 28 Days Later (2002) & 28 Weeks Later (2007)ĭanny Boyle infused new life into the zombie horror genre with the 2002 original that's, as you can tell, set four weeks after a rage-inducing virus sweeps across the world. Here are the best pandemic-themed zombie-starring horror movies available in India. All of the entries below - available for streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Zee5, and Hungama or purchase on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, and YouTube - are set in a world where a virus has ravaged humanity and turned them into human flesh-devouring creatures. As we noted then, we purposely kept out any films that featured zombies in any fashion, because we wanted to give those their own separate list.
Last Friday, we put together a list of pandemic-themed movies to watch during the ongoing pandemic, for the kind of folks who only know how to cope with our current reality by looking at a similar one on film.