Korean horror master Yeon Sang-ho, the genius behind the critically acclaimed 2016 zombie epic Train to Busan, is back, and he’s bringing a new kind of infected with him. Sang-ho’s latest film, COLONY, premieres in theaters this month, marking the filmmaker’s terrifying return to the zombie subgenre. However, COLONY is not a sequel to Train to Busan; it’s an all-new, unrelated story with an innovative take on the popular (and undying) horror trope.
Gianna Jun stars as Kwon Se-jeong, an idealistic biotech professor who’s thrust into a living nightmare of chaos and carnage when a rapidly evolving virus is released at a biotech conference she attends. Trapped and facing a bloody onslaught of mutating zombies connected in a hive mind, Se-jeong and a small band of survivors must fight to stay alive. Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Shin Hyun-been, Kim Shin-rock and GO Soo co-star.
In this suspense-filled clip provided exclusively to RUE MORGUE by the film’s distributor, Well Go USA Entertainment, the survivors must elude the infected’s preternatural olfactory abilities. Sniff!
Exploring themes of collective behavior and the erosion of individuality, COLONY promises to be a uniquely contemporary twist on a well-worn theme, with enough subtext to make the late great George A. Romero proud. And judging from what we’ve seen so far, Yeon Sang-ho hasn’t lost a step.
COLONY premieres only in theaters on August 28.
