Colony (2026)

I wasn't inspired by the start of this film as it resembled a sort of foaming-at-the-mouth edition of the "Kids from Fame", but once it settles down it's actually quite a decent hybrid of a horror movie and a sci-fi thriller. It's following a presentation by a tech CEO (Kim Jong-tae) who is advancing the theories of communal communication and learning, itself quite a terrifying thought, that the disgruntled "Suh Yeong Cheol" (Koo Hyo-hwan) decides to seek his revenge on that man whom he accuses of stealing his revolutionary ideas and then firing him.…

Check out my full review @ Rating: B Yeon Sang-ho returns to zombies with COLONY, trading a bullet train for a sealed-off Seoul high-rise and swapping fast infected for a hive-mind that evolves through communication. It's the smartest idea in the movie: these monsters understand each other better than the humans understand themselves, and that thesis about empathy and miscommunication genuinely lands. The cast sells it well despite mostly archetypal roles, but a few

Yeon Sang-ho does it again! After a relatively weak "Peninsula" he is establishing himself as the George Romero of this generation with a zombie movie almost as good as his masterpiece "Train to Busan". Perhaps lacking a bit on the dialogs and missing a superb acting job like Gong Yoo's or Ma Dong-Seok's , Colony still keeps you on the edge of the seat for two hours of FAST zombie chase sequences. What a year for horror movie aficionados!