In the South Korean zombie classic TRAIN TO BUSAN, there is a scene where the zombies are locked in one train compartment with the uninfected humans doing all that they can so these zombies can’t escape. It is a natural human instinct for survival, to not die, and the zombie film is probably the most existential of the horror genre to embody this.
Month: August 2020
Anyone who has seen Steven Soderbergh’s ominously dark 2011 pandemic thriller ‘Contagion’ during this COVID-19 period is probably musing about how it has spot-on predicted our dire situation. Yet, in essence, the reality of our actual pandemic is much aberrantly stranger and more insidious than the researchers and writers of the film can foresee.