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The Real Zombies Are the Korean-Drama Fans
The movie that was supposed to “shake Hollywood”… but only made it sleepy.
It starts as a zombie apocalypse and ends as My Pet Learns to Say ‘Dad.’
The tone swings awkwardly between cheesy comedy and family drama. Zombies make random “aghh aghh” noises, the makeup looks straight out of a kids’ party, and the only thing the movie takes seriously is its moral: the adoptive father who literally trains his zombie daughter with a whistle so she won’t bite.
The story has zero tension, no real humor, and no idea what it wants to be. In the end, everything is solved by the classic Korean miracle: the girl has an antigen, becomes human again, and her father, bitten and dying, magically survives—because love.
Korea has made powerful films about adoptive parenthood —Broker, Miracle in Cell No.7, Hope— but this one is just emotional caricature.
Because in the end, the real zombies aren’t on screen… they’re the Korean-drama fans.
It starts as a zombie apocalypse and ends as My Pet Learns to Say ‘Dad.’
The tone swings awkwardly between cheesy comedy and family drama. Zombies make random “aghh aghh” noises, the makeup looks straight out of a kids’ party, and the only thing the movie takes seriously is its moral: the adoptive father who literally trains his zombie daughter with a whistle so she won’t bite.
The story has zero tension, no real humor, and no idea what it wants to be. In the end, everything is solved by the classic Korean miracle: the girl has an antigen, becomes human again, and her father, bitten and dying, magically survives—because love.
Korea has made powerful films about adoptive parenthood —Broker, Miracle in Cell No.7, Hope— but this one is just emotional caricature.
Because in the end, the real zombies aren’t on screen… they’re the Korean-drama fans.
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