Scream, shout, and jump about.

Rating: 10/10 (24 October 2016)

I had to watch this movie in two parts because after seeing half of it, I was all screamed out. I'm not a great fan of zombie movies, I don't watch Walking Dead, but this film impressed me enormously because the zombies are, first, only incidental to the plot; and secondly, they have allowed the director to incorporate some truly wonderful and bizarre concepts. The film starts in a subtle sort of way. Watch carefully or you'll miss things. It's nice to see how the director uses these half- glimpsed horrors to show the dawning comprehension of the passengers on the train, that something seems to be going wrong with the world. The director Sang-ho Yeon, who also wrote the screenplay, is adept at stretching out the agony to improbable levels as time after time the zombies almost get to chow down on the passengers. But as I said earlier, this is a long film, and there's only a certain amount of time before chowing down does indeed occur, and a whole lot more, besides. The high point of the film, for me, comes when the train nearly crashes headlong into a disaster scene at an intermediate station. Somehow the passengers and driver must find another train to continue their journey to Busan, and - they hope - safety. And now begin screaming again. I'm giving this film 10 points because of so many things, but mainly the sheer inventiveness of Sang-ho Yeon.