Seoul Station

(Yeon Sang-Ho/2016/South Korea)

This is an animated prequel to Sang-Ho’s Train to Busan zombie flick which shows how the virus outbreak begins, albeit without any detail of what the virus is exactly. It focuses on a few characters living in and around the area of Seoul Train Station and ties the action of trying to survive the onslaught of the zombies around a couple of central story arcs. It’s a straight forward zombie horror, illustrated really nicely, with some decent human drama in the main character’s narratives. There’s also a nice twist towards the end. This film focuses a lot more on the social commentary that’s hinted at in Train to Busan. There is far more explicit dialogue about economic deprivation, class difference and a common theme of an older generation berating the younger over their perceived weakness in the face of adversity. In fact, there’s an awful lot of characters that break down in self pitying tears throughout.

(2.5/5)