The By the mid-2010s it seemed as though zombie fatigue had really kicked in.

satirical movies like The Cabin in the Woods,

Sean of the Dead and Z zombie land had poked fun at the

tropes of this well-worn sub-gomra. Audience ratings for the Walking Dead

were beginning to drop. The few smart and original zombie movies like Pontypool and the girl with all the gifts weren't commercially successful.

It was becoming increasingly apparent that audiences had simply had enough of zombies.

But then two movies came along, one from Japan, the other from Korea, and proved that maybe

zombie movies still have the power to entertain us, to thrill us, to surprise us. One was an ultra-low-budget satire about the making of an ultra-low-budget zombie

movie. The other was an entirely earnest, completely formulaic zombie outbreak movie,

one that in theory we had seen a thousand times before.

But it was so packed with visceral scares, emotional character beats, high obtained

tension.

It was so well directed and well executed that audiences all around the world embraced it,

proving that maybe there's still life in the zombie movie, after all.

Join me as we conclude our journey through the evolution of the zombie movie and we discuss

train to Busan and one cut of the dead. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your

host. If you're joining us for the first time then you've joined us right at the end.

Welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular

sub-genres across several weeks. We are reaching the end of our journey through the evolution of the

zombie movie. This is part 22 in which we're giving you our final two in-depth discussions. Train to Busan from 2016 and one cut of the dead from 2017 or

2019 if you're going from UK release dates.

These will both be spoilerific reviews.

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