Category: Subgenre: Road film

  • Train to Busan. Dir. Yeon Sang-ho. Next Entertainment World. 2016.

    Train to Busan. Dir. Yeon Sang-ho. Next Entertainment World. 2016.

    Content warning: This article contains images of real animal death. The opening of Yeon Sang-ho’s action-horror film Train to Busan (2016) interprets the circumstances that lead to the epidemic at the centre of the ‘zombie apocalypse’ genre through an incident with a farmer and a deer. Considering the film’s narrative is characterised by a linearity…