so im watching peninsula which is the sequel to train to busan and the b plot is about this pseudo-military camp in a post-apocalyptic city and these two dudes, private kim and captain seo, who hatch this plot to try to escape to hong kong. and theyre literally About To Escape when the main antagonist, sergeant hwang, smells bullshit and goes to confront captain seo about it. and captain seo is trying to like duck serg hwang’s questions, acting all evasive and nervous and super suspicious, and right then private kim bursts in. and captain seo and private kim both just FREEZE. completely guilty. TOTAL deer in the headlights look. it IMMEDIATELY becomes clear these two men are up to something. and serg hwang is like ‘what the hell are you hiding from me’ and i was like “you know, youd get away with all this weird secretiveness if you just told him you were gay.” and then they did
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Peninsula (2020)
Peninsula isn’t as fresh, frightening, or memorable as Train to Busan. It also doesn’t quite follow through with its premise but makes up for it with something I bet you’d never see out of a zombie movie set in Korea: Mad Max-style action!
Four years after a zombie outbreak in South Korea, former Marine Corps Captain Jung-Seok (Gang Dong-won) and his widowed brother-in-law Chul-min (Kim Do-yoon) are offered a life-altering job. Inside the undead-riddled Peninsula is an abandoned truck filled with US$20 million. They've been hired to retrieve it as part of a team of four who will enter South Korea at night - when the darkness will hide them from the innumerable ghouls. Once inside, they're shocked to discover survivors in the ruins.
If you’re looking for a heist movie with zombies in it, you want Army of the Dead. Peninsula starts with the team going in to grab the money but within minutes, half of them are dead. Chul-min is taken captive by crazed militants who’ve established a society in the ruins of the city, while Jung-Seok is rescued by Min-Jung (Lee Jung-hyun), her father Kim (Kwon Hae-hyo), and her two daughters, Joon (Lee Re), and Yu-Jin (Lee Ye-won). Now, the ghouls are the least of everyone’s worries. Unit 631 roams the streets, looking for any strays to put in their arena. There, the people have to run away from hungry flesh-eaters while the soldiers bet on who will die. Chul-min needs a way out ASAP. Unfortunately, the satellite phone he would’ve used to call his Chinese mobster bosses has been confiscated. Now Jung-Seok needs to save his brother, get the phone, get the money and leave with the help of the family who rescued him… but things are on the verge of getting dicey. See, Jung-Seok’s met Min-Jung before. She asked him for help four years ago when the zombie plague began. He refused and left her behind. Oops.
As a zombie movie, Peninsula disappoints. They don’t really play a big part in the film except at the beginning and then at the end. Mostly, this is an apocalyptic film. People scrambling for food, cobbling together equipment, setting up dodgy institutions where might makes right, that kind of thing. And of course, there’s the driving. If you’re going to check out Peninsula, it should be for the movie’s best scene, a spectacular race in the city featuring dozens of vehicles with our heroes in the lead and everyone trying to turn them into roadkill. Whereas the rest of the film barely uses zombies, this part of Peninsula brings the two genres together. The dead are obstacles to be dodged, they’re also weapons to use against those pursuing you. It’s fast-paced, expertly coordinated and loads of fun.
Plenty is going on in the film, which makes the nearly two-hour running time go by plenty fast… except at the end. During the conclusion, Peninsula tries to do too much. It pours on the drama as people have to make heroic sacrifices, there are double-crosses that make escape impossible, hope is renewed, then dashed, then renewed again, and so on. Some of this should’ve been cut, not only so we could end on the high we got from the driving scenes but also so the cheese could be kept at a minimum. Still, it works more than it doesn’t.
Peninsula is not a memorable zombie film and when we examine Seoul Station (the prequel to Train to Busan) we see that the terrific 2016 picture that spawned this franchise was more of an anomaly than a revival of the genre. You can still enjoy this follow-up if you love zombies and you want a bit of something new but anything more than the price of a rental is too much. (Original Korean with English Subtitles, May 21, 2021)
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Day 03
Seoul Station (Seoulyeok: 서울역)
Year Released: 2016
Run Time: 1hr 32m
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Genres: Animation, Action, Horror
Train to Busan (Busanhaeng - 부산행)
Year Released: 2016
Run Time: 1hr 58m
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Rating: Not Rated
Genres: Action, Horror, Thriller
Peninsula (Busanhaeng 2: Bando - 부산행2:반도)
Year Released: 2020
Run Time: 1hr 56m
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Rating: Not Rated
Genres: Action, Horror, Thriller
Gangnam Zombie (강남좀비)
Year Released: 2023
Run Time: 1hr 21m
Director: Lee Soo-sung
Genres: Horror
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This Year In The Month Of Horror (October 2023 Reviews)
Well the Elders/Missionaries have shown up again. If course. My Care… Pusher is a devoute CofJCandtheLDS… So when they stand at your door is that the new Missionary Position?!?
Anyway let’s peer ahead to see what 2023 has in store for us for the Month Of Horror 2023 this October. This year? We delve into Pacific Rim Zombies, a Grendel Less Taken, Gerard-El And The Minotaur Of Theseus, The…
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I’ve seen people really savage Peninsula and while it may not be as special as Train to Busan, or as good to non horror heads, I think it’s a perfectly good and sometimes kickass zombie flick.
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“I wanted to pull you out of this hell…”
“No...We were together all along. Why would this be hell?”
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
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so i saw netflix added peninsula (just peninsula? train to busan: peninsula? train to busan 2?) and thought to myself why not? as of right now my only complaint is why so much english 😩
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The Best ZOMBIE Movies (Trailers)
The Best ZOMBIE Movies (Trailers)
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Included in this compilation are
00:00 The Best Zombie Movies
00:03 World War Z
02:16 Train to Busan: Peninsula
04:02 Zombieland 2: Double Tap
05:39 Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City
07:46 Overlord
10:03 Wyrmwood Apocalypse
12:23 I Am Legend
14:52 The Girl with all the…
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