While the world might feel it's had enough of global pandemics for the moment, South Korea’s latest zombie thriller promises to take deadly viruses to the next level.
The trailer of Alive dropped on Monday, a dystopian horror directed by Cho Il-hyung and adapted from Matt Naylor’s screenplay titled #Alone.
According to its synopsis, the film follows two protagonists through a zombie apocalypse, caused topically by a “mysterious virus” which has caused a metropolis “to spiral out of control”.
If the trailer is anything to go by, we're in for a spine-tingler.
“Joon-Woo (Yoo Ah-In) and Yoo-Bin (Park Shin-Hye) struggle to survive in an isolated apartment complex from those infected with the virus,” reads the synopsis.
“Everything including the Internet, phone, and electricity has been disconnected around the apartment.”
The film is set to be released in June this year, but it remains uncertain where it will be launched, with cinemas still closed in many countries.
South Korean cinema first planted its flag in the “zombie thriller” genre band with the release of Train to Busan in 2016, which grossed £65 million after becoming a global smash hit; it's sequel is due for release this year, called Peninsula.
Parasite was another recent South Korean sensation, becoming the first foreign-language film to take Best Picture at this year’s Oscar’s.
It’s director, Boon Joon-ho, has also produced one of the latest epics to grace Netflix, Snowpiercer, which follows the last surviving remnants of humanity after the world has frozen after, as they circle the globe in perpetual motion in an enormous train for which the series is titled. The first two episodes are now on Netflix.
