2016 · horror · action · thriller
Train to Busan
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho1h 58m2016
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Our read: Train to Busan (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded horror · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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