Train to Busan

Beautifully balanced, exciting and heart rendering. if you haven’t seen this you don’t have to be a zombie fan, you have to enjoy good films.

The story begins with Seok-woo, a divorced fund manager, reluctantly taking his daughter Su-an to Busan to visit her mother for her birthday. Shortly after departure, an infected woman boards the train, quickly spreading a virus that turns passengers into fast, aggressive zombies. As the train barrels toward Busan—rumoured to be a safe zone—the survivors must navigate through infested carriages while

• Gong Yoo as Seok-woo: A selfish, work-obsessed father who undergoes a transformation into a selfless protector.
• Kim Su-an as Su-an: Seok-woo’s young, empathetic daughter whose birthday wish drives the plot.
• Ma Dong-seok as Sang-hwa: A tough, heroic man who uses his strength to protect his pregnant wife and other passengers.
• Jung Yu-mi as Seong-kyeong: Sang-hwa’s pregnant wife who becomes a key figure in the survival group.
• Kim Eui-sung as Yon-suk: A high-ranking executive who serves as the film’s antagonist.

World War Z

Starring Brad Pitt, the movie is a “punchy, if conventional action thriller” that diverges significantly from the book.

Were it not for the very ending, that slightly disappointed, this film would be at the top. The first time that a zombie film had a large budget spent on it. Brad Pitt keeps the whole thing together and gives us a hero to worry about and route for. The action sequences are fantastic and have been much copied since. The zombies piling on each other to get over the wall and the stunning imagery of zombie hordes.

My Daughter is a Zombie (2025)

A low budget Korean comedy-drama directed by Pil Gam-sung that has become a massive hit, grossing over $38 million.

Based on the popular Naver Webtoon by Yun-chang Lee, the story follows a father who goes to extreme lengths to protect his infected daughter. 

After a global zombie outbreak, animal trainer Lee Jung-hwan (played by Jo Jung-suk) discovers his rebellious teenage daughter, Soo-ah (Choi Yu-ri), has been infected. Convinced her humanity remains, he uses his taming skills to secretly “re-educate” her while hiding from a government intent on destroying the infected.

The film stars Jo Jung-suk, Choi Yu-ri, and Lee Jung-eun as the grandmother.

Blending dark humour with a “heartwarming” father-daughter bond, an emotional rollercoaster that is “true entertainment for all audiences”.

Non gory but full of heart.

Availability: The film was released in South Korean theatres on July 30, 2025 and was screened at Glasgow film festival. Hopefully it will get a wider release here.

Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent zombie horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo. A group of people trapped in a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, under assault by flesh-eating reanimated corpses. Although the word zombie was never mentioned in the film, it became a genre first pushing the world of zombies into mainstream film and TV. It still remains one of the all time greats. Scary, exciting and sad.

Sean of the Dead

The story follows Shaun (Simon Pegg), a 29-year-old electronics salesman stuck in a rut. His girlfriend, Liz, dumps him because of his lack of ambition and constant loitering at his local pub, The Winchester, with his slacker best friend Ed (Nick Frost). When a zombie apocalypse suddenly overruns London, Shaun must step up to rescue his mother and ex-girlfriend, leading his ragtag group of survivors to the only sanctuary he knows: the pub.

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright wrote Sean of the Dead in arpox 8 weeks. It went on to make ten times its budget and launched the phrase Zom rom-com.

Dawn of the Dead

The United States is devastated by a mysterious plague that reanimates recently-dead human beings as flesh-eating zombies At the dawn of the crisis, it has been reported that millions of people have died and reanimated. Despite the government’s best efforts, social order is collapsing. While rural communities have natural barriers such as  Johnstown and the National Guard have been effective in fighting the zombie hordes in open country, urban centers have descended into chaos.

George A. Romero did it again with this follow up to Night of the living dead. Perhaps even more frightening and devastating.

I remember seeing it in the cinema with a friend of mine who hated horror films. I agreed to tell her when she could look. Which was pretty much never as almost every scene was filled with horror or impending doom.