K-Drama’s Zombie Evolution

The zombies' biological conception and the eventual apocalypse has been a trending genre on TV and movies around the world, and obviously most people like this kind of variety. I don’t know how this can be entertaining because mostly it always contains violent scenes, but I keep giving such popular themes the benefit of the doubt and end up watching it. Thus, I got this funny realization about how the zombies evolved, especially on K-dramas. 

As I jogged my memory, I think the first movie I came across watching zombies is “The Resident Evil.” I can no longer identify which part of the film series because when I started Netflix, it already had several films. Well, I don’t want to dig about the story of how the Umbrella Corporation started the mess and how cool Alice was in the movie. But, definitely, the zombies here are just the casual zombies we knew - corpses that can move and get fed from human flesh, however not capable of reason and logical thought. 

The Korean Drama that I first watched was “Train to Busan.” But, I’m not fond of horror films so I never completed watching it. Honestly, it just stirs my curiosity because it became popular in the Philippines at that time. The zombies in this film were indeed just the usual zombies we know from the definition.

Then, “All of us are Dead” made waves and I got hooked watching it when my nephews and niece were binge watching it on Netflix. I have actually written an article about it, because the side stories of the characters in the film were life anecdotes that we can actually learn something about friendships, family, etc.

Believe it or not, there is something special with some of the zombies in the series. They are no longer typical zombies, they can actually think and reason. Moreover, they can fake themselves as normal humans! The teens in the film jokingly call them - “hambie” half human, half zombie. The interesting element from the hambie is that they can be really annoying villains because they exhibit great power that could outwit the humans.

This afternoon, I saw “Carter” on Netflix as one of the most popular recent films, so I watched it. I didn’t read the description, and later on realized that it’s a zombie film. Surprisingly, the zombies here are also capable of choosing a weapon to devour its human target. Wow! The smart undead can really end the human race if we are not as skilled as Carter, hehe!

If you haven't seen it yet, this trailer I got from YouTube might stir your imagination.

Just a quick review of the movie, I would rate it 6/10. It's an action packed drama and the plot can be really good, apparently not a horror film. However, violence is just overrated, and some of the fighting scenes look unrealistic in my opinion especially on the last part of the movie with the helicopter and train scene. The swinging made me think that these guys might be acrobats, lol! So, I give it a 6. It's an adrenaline ride from start to finish, so you'll still enjoy definitely.

The evolution of zombies can go crazy and overwhelming all because of man’s creativity for the sake of art. I don’t how we handle it, but oftentimes this creates fear and hearsay, like when the pandemic came and the vaccines became mandatory in some countries, the zombie story became a trend.

Let's not hope for a zombie or a hambie, and hope all these will stay as fiction in our lifetime.

Thanks for reading guys and a have an awesome weekend!

Lead Image and first photo from Pixabay

Trailer from YouTube (not mine)

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08/13/2022

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