Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Gangnam Zombie
It’s Christmas Eve in the Gangnam District of Seoul, Korea, when a cat’s scratch infects a man & sets off the next zombie apocalypse. One by one, the infection spreads turning citizens into blood thirty zombies. Next, the focus is on a man with taekwondo skills & a woman, his co-worker who he has an infatuation with. They are trapped in an indoor mall/parking garage situation. This low budget film becomes a tedious one-note drama of run, stop, fight, & run some more. You can only stand to watch so many punches, kicks, hits with a stick, & spin kicks so many times. It just become monotonous after a while. A couple of zombies keep recurring because they don’t die because they are dead already. I️ could barely wait to get to the conclusion & I️ wasn't satisfied there either. The mid credit scene shows filmmakers are optimistic about a sequel, but count me out. This Korean language film has English subtitles. At the beginning, I️ was hoping for something more like “Train to Busan” but got Trapped Inside on Foot.
Alien gives it 1 “landlord” star out of 4.
