They find the first-class passengers, looking out only for themselves, prevent them from entering their compartment by forcing the door shut. One of the passengers escaping from the zombies is the sensitive bruiser working-class passenger Sang-hwa (Ma Dong-seok) and his pregnant wife Sung-kyu (Jung Yu-mi). The train has second class seats to serve the general population, while the first-class is reserved for the wealthy riders. What happens as the infected girl makes the rounds of the various train compartments gives the filmmaker a chance to voice his reactions to how snobbish and cold the elites behave. Within minutes the infected girl finds her first victim and things become chaotic from hereon. But a recently infected teenage girl sneaks on their train. Upon boarding the KTX express train at Seoul Station a bunch of zombies appear and are blocked from entering. But despite its zombie comic book look its vision is a dark one for its country.ĭivorcee Seok-woo ( Gong Yoo) is a snobbish big-shot fund manger in Seoul, who takes his estranged young daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an) to visit her mother in Busan. The filmmaker keeps it from being a blood-fest, as it blends into a social conscious film. It plays out as an allegory on class warfare and also shows the ill-effects of Korean capitalism because of greed. Korean indie animator, in his first live-action film, Sang-ho Yeon (“The King of Pigs”/”The Fake”), is the writer and director of this well-executed tense zombie train ride thriller. “ W ell-executed tense zombie train ride thriller.” (director/writer: Sang-ho Yeon cinematographer: Lee Hyung-deok editor: Yang-Jin-mo music: Jang Young-gyu cast: Gong Yoo ( Seok Woo), Jung Yu-mi ( Sung Gyeong), Ma Dong-seok ( Sang Hwa), Choi Woo-sik ( Young Gook), Ahn So-hee ( Jin-he), Kim Eui-sung ( businessman villain), Kim Su-an ( Soo-an) Runtime: 118 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Lee Dong Redpeter Film 2016-South Korea-in Korean with English subtitles)