Alive (2020) (살아있다) KILL COUNT

Zoran Gvojic

Mike Cygan

Alive (2020) (살아있다) KILL COUNT is the two hundred and forty sixth video of James A. Janisse's series, The Kill Count

## Overview

Joon-woo, who lives with his parents and sister in an apartment complex, spends his days video game live streaming. While his family is out, the news reports that a mysterious rapidly-spreading disease is causing its victims to attack and eat uninfected people, and the government has lost control. From his balcony, Joon-woo sees his neighbours fleeing or attacking one another. He goes to check the hallway, but a neighbour barges in and succumbs to infection. Joon-woo barely manages to push him out and lock the door. He then receives messages from his parents telling him that they are safe.

Joon-woo barricades himself inside and posts a rescue request on social media. No help comes. Within days, the neighbourhood is overrun with infected. Though the emergency power stays on, Joon-woo gradually loses access to running water, internet service, and phone networks. He watches a policewoman attempt to escape the complex, but she is overwhelmed and infected. An infected man breaks into his apartment, but Jun-Woo manages to bait it into falling off his balcony. When his food and water runs low, he begins drinking from his father's liquor cabinet. As he hallucinates about his family, his phone network is restored momentarily, and he receives a voicemail from his family recording their last moments.

Driven by grief, he prepares to hang himself, but stops when he is flashed by a laser pointer's beam from Yoo-bin, another survivor living in the apartment opposite of his balcony. They begin signalling to each other daily. Seeing that Joon-woo is hungry, Yoo-bin connects their apartments with a homemade zip line and sends him food. An infected man manipulates the zip line, causing Yoo-bin's table to fly and knock her out. The infected man climbs up the string to her apartment, but Joon-woo distracts it with his flying drone long enough for Yoo-bin to wake up and kill it.

Joon-woo decides to search for supplies, finding food, clothing, and walkie-talkies in his neighbour's unit. He sends a walkie-talkie to Yoo-bin, and the two begin to bond. The infected hordes become agitated, and Yoo-bin knocks over some furniture while trying to hide. The sound causes a group to converge on her apartment, and Joon-woo distracts them by calling an adjacent unit's landline. Realizing that they will die if they stay put, the pair rappel from their balconies, recover the policewoman's revolver, and fight their way to the 8th floor of Joon-woo's apartment together, determining that the floor is safe. The horde finds them, but a stranger emerges from his apartment and saves the pair.

In the stranger's home, the pair accepts his food, which has been drugged. The stranger cuffs the inebriated pair, then tries to feed Yoo-bin to his infected wife. Yoo-bin is able to wrap a bag over the infected wife's head, then releases the zombie upon her husband. She shoots them both with the revolver, but the gunshots attract the infected. Yoo-bin asks Joon-woo to mercy-kill her; however, Joon-woo hears helicopters outside. The pair fight their way to the rooftop, chased by the infected. Just as they are about to be overwhelmed, an army helicopter shoots the horde down and the pair are flown off to safety. A voiceover by an anchorman explains that wireless networks are being restored and the military has begun finding survivors through social media posts.

## Deaths

### Counted Deaths

* 6 People in Apartment Complex - Bitten & killed by zombies - 3-4 mins in
* Daughter - Turned into zombie - 5 mins in
* Mother - Bitten - 5 mins in
* Lee Sang-Cheol - Turned into zombie - 9 mins in
* Guy With Bad Reception - Fell to his death - 16 mins in
* 2 Zombies - Shot by police officer - 18 mins in
* Police Officer - Bitten by zombies - 19 mins in
* Invasive Zombie - Fell to his death - 21 mins in
* Joon-Woo's Family (including Mr. Oh, Mrs. Oh & Oh Joon-woo's Sister) - Heard being killed on voicemail - 32 mins in (revealed in voicemail)
* Hallway Zombie - Beaten to death w/ golf club - 33 mins in
* Random Woman - Overcome - 33-34 mins in
* 5 Random Zombies - Seen dead - 33-34 mins in
* Invasive Zombie - Hacked to death w/ hand axe offscreen - 45 mins in
* Firefighter Zombie - Hand cut off, fell to death - 51 mins in
* Joon-Woo's Neighbor - Dead foot seen from beneath covers - 54 mins in (body found)
* 8 Zombies in Apartment Complex - Killed by Yoo-Bin w/ hand axe - 1 hr 8-9 mins in
* The Stranger - Zombified then shot by Yoo-Bin - 1 hr 22 mins in
* The Stranger's Wife - Shot by Yoo-Bin - 1 hr 22 mins in
* Zombie - Tossed over balcony by Joon-Woo - 1 hr 26 mins in
* Stairwell zombie - Hacked in head w/ hand axe - 1 hr 27 mins in
* 2 Rooftop Zombies - Shot down by Joon-Woo - 1 hr 29 mins in
* 11 Rooftop Zombies - Gunned down - 1 hr 30 mins in
* Rooftop Zombie - Fell over ledge - 1 hr 30 mins in

## Trivia

* This is the first Asian horror film on the Kill Count.
	+ Additionally, this is the first Korean horror film on the Kill Count.