Episode 299: Zombie School

After a surprise effort from North Macedonia we are returning to our favourite source of zombie entertainment – South Korea. A country that has delighted us for many years and 2 entries in our top 10 with train to busan and all of us are dead, if we are including tv shows.  And they really get it with period shows like Kingdom, and the movie version Rampant, modern series such as Newtopia and Happiness, and mock reality shows like Zombieverse. 

The blurb for this one - Arriving at a reformatory school, a group of students sent there to work on their attitude issues try to stand up to the teachers trying to control, but when a diseased pig from an undisclosed pandemic awakes and turns the faculty into zombies the students are forced to find a way out of the school.

We follow three kids, a fighter, a thief and a spoiled brat party girl, as they are taken by boat to a reform school on an island. It is run by a bully boy principal, who kicks down, bully his VP, who in turns bullies Mr Park a teacher, who in turn bullies the pupils. No one bullies the kids like the gym teacher though, he is a violent piece of work.

After a slow start where it's all about the thief being bullied by Chicken Hair, and the party girl bullied by Red Hanky, in the space of a few minutes the Principals cat is killed, then he is bitten by a rabid pig that turns him into a zombie. He kills the nurse, who kills the canteen lady, who then combine to kill the gym teacher and before long we just have the cowardly VP and the kids left.

We get carnage. And it does have poor man's Battle Royale vibes. It wasn't the worst zombie movie I have seen. And it is encouraging that a bad South Korean zombie movie is still better than a bad US or UK zombie movie. 

Oh, and we get a cover of Cranberries zombie as the final theme song.. oh my

It was better than the Japanese Junk and much better than the lowest scoring South Korean Gangnam Zombie. I wouldn't watch it again.

Probably a 4/10 for me