Gruesome New Korean Zombie Series Is A Huge Hit On Netflix

South Korea has a pretty solid history of producing excellent horror-themed films and shows. Beginning in 2002, Park Chan-wook gifted the world with The Vengence Trilogy, the middle of which Old Boy is considered to have some of the best action scenes and plot twists in the history of cinema. 2020, saw Bong Joon-ho's Parasite be the first foreign language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars, followed by Korean language film Minari receiving a nomination in the same category the year after.

For those who were equally in love with 2021's Squid Game you can watch the less lethal version of the opening game 'Red Light, Green Light' below.

If we turn our gaze to TV, last year Netflix viewers the world over were taken in by Hwang Dong-hyuk's Squid Game. The story of over four hundred well-meaning but financially troubled people, trapped in a death game together was hard to avoid hearing about. Successful the world over, the series spawned a whole host of merchandise and memes.

Now a whole new drama from Squid Game's native South Korea seems to be creating waves once more. All Of Us Are Dead is the most popular series on Netflix in over 50 countries. Set in a South Korean high school, the show tells of the tale of what happens when a single student gets bitten by a virus-ridden hamster. Needless to say, things go a little bit awry and the whole town ends up in the midst of a zombie outbreak.

These aren't your stumbling, drooling, slowly shuffling zombies of old. They are much more the twitchy, runny, climbing up the wallsy zombies you might have seen in another Korean classic Train To Busan. Released just five days ago on 28 January, it's still early days for All Of Us Are Dead, but early signs are good for another worthwhile series straight out of South Korea.

Topics: Netflix, TV And Film