Zombie film for HUMANS

Go to any 'horror' film forum here and you'll get the same old saddos whose topic/reply is essentially "I know horror, and I can tell you this film is boring/rubbish'. Believe me, you NEVER want the 'opinion' of a self-confessed 'horror junkie' (and I get the feeling you woundn't want to meet many of them alone in a dark alley either).

So even though this Korean movie is absolutely excellent, you'll see a hard-core trash the movie here. If you have general open-minded tastes in your film choices, and simply want to watch well made movies, then make a point of seeing this movie unless gory horror themes upset you (and nothing wrong in not liking visceral stuff onscreen).

The best thing about 'Train to Busan' is how well it works the horror/disater cliches. Morons will tell you that genre films that rely on cliches are 'poor' or 'lazy'. This is why Hollywood movies have become unwatchable in the last 5 years or so. Whereas once knowing how to use cliches properly was seen as an essential craft skill in writers and directors, we live in an age where vocal dribblers have persuaded movie producers that throwing random cr-p at the screen is a 'clever' form of writing. HBO's unbearable Westworld is a perfect example of this 'method'.

This film is old school, as many Asian film-makers really respect the wonderful work of CLASSIC Hollywood. How weird is it that to see films that inherit 80 years of Hollywood golden age history (which pretty much ended before the new millenium) one now has to watch movies with subtitles.

This isn't the best, most exciting, or most imaginative horror movie you've ever seen- it isn't going for that. Instead it wants to tell a zombie story from a Human POV that a mainstream audience can really get behind. This does NOT mean boring or dull or talkiy- it means subtle, exciting, sad and heart-wrenching in all the right ways.

If Hollywood can get its head out of its backside and stop listening to the same no-nothing loud-mouths in film forums (and paid reviewer outlets- like those who said the atrocious Ghostbusters 2016 was a great film), it will remake this film pretty much scene for scene (sadly most in the English West will NEVER watch a non-Anglo-Saxon made movie). Keanu Reeves would be an excellent choice for the lead.