'Colony' Review: Yeon Sang-ho Returns with a More Grotesque Zombie Horror at Cannes
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Ryan Lattanzio
14d ago· 7 min readenReview
100/100
Golden Brown
Bagelometer↗
Kettled twice. Extra chewy, extra trustworthy.
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Summary
Yeon Sang-ho's latest zombie film 'Colony,' a follow-up to 'Train to Busan,' premiered at Cannes. The film follows a brother-sister pair who get caught in a new, more horrific outbreak of the undead, featuring advanced limb contortions and ghoulish visuals. The review highlights the film's escalation of horror elements compared to Sang-ho's previous work.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledA throwaway line early in 'Colony'... suggests that leaving his job as a mall security guard and the grind of her wheelchair-bound life as an IT employee to go camping would feel like entering civilization.
Yeon will shove the siblings (and us) into his newest concocted outbreak of the rabidly moving dead — even more horrific this time thanks to their state-of-the-art bone-crunching limb contortions and green-ghoulish, goo-smattered faces.
Read IndieWire's review of Yeon Sang-ho's new zombie movie 'Colony,' which premiered at Cannes.
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