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Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day? Here is another frenzied K-zombie action-horror from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula . Colony is frontloaded with 10 minutes of sciencey exposition and setup during which a biotech CEO mentions maze-solving slime mould and the pioneering work of the entomologist William Wheeler on the hive minds of ant colonies. Then the CEO is injected with a disgruntled former employee’s bright green liquid tech – it always needs to be bright green in such circumstances – and becomes the first victim of a bio-terror attack that traps a small cross-section of South Korean society in a tower block with hordes of fast-moving rabid flesh-munchers. An hour and three quarters of goopy, bloody mayhem ensue. An upscale shopping mall occupies
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This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day? Here is another frenzied K-zombie action-horror from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula . Colony is frontloaded with 10 minutes of sciencey exposition and setup during which a biotech CEO mentions maze-solving slime mould and the pioneering work of the entomologist William Wheeler on the hive minds of ant colonies. Then the CEO is injected with a disgruntled former employee’s bright green liquid tech – it always needs to be bright green in such circumstances – and becomes the first victim of a bio-terror attack that traps a small cross-section of South Korean society in a tower block with hordes of fast-moving rabid flesh-munchers. An hour and three quarters of goopy, bloody mayhem ensue. An upscale shopping mall occupies
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares, This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day? Here is another frenzied K-zombie action-horror from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula . Colony is frontloaded with 10 minutes of sciencey exposition and setup during which a biotech CEO mentions maze-solving slime mould and the pioneering work of the entomologist William Wheeler on the hive minds of ant colonies. Then the CEO is injected with a disgruntled former employee’s bright green liquid tech – it always needs to be bright green in such circumstances – and becomes the first victim of a bio-terror attack that traps a small cross-section of South Korean society in a tower block with hordes of fast-moving rabid flesh-munchers. An hour and three quarters of goopy, bloody mayhem ensue. An upscale shopping mall occupies
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