They're the most unlikely of film stars. Yet zombies, the rotting, lurching undead with an insatiable craving for flesh and blood are tailor-made for movies. Be they solo or en masse in spectacular ravaging hoards, they've earned their place on the big screen with their own distinctive style of horror, one that's proved to be extraordinarily malleable and adaptable. Musicals, comedies, romances, you name it, they've all got their own zombie versions. Now they’re invading Netflix in style, courtesy of one of the best and most popular movies from the genre, Train To Busan (2016), which has been added on Tuesday, 11 February (UK fans can watch via ITVX or rent on Prime Video).
Regarded as the father of the "Hollywood zombie", George Romero put them firmly on our radar with the legendary Night Of The Living Dead (1968), giving audiences their first taste of the infected, flesh-craving monsters we're familiar with now. Less than twenty years later, the first South Korean zombie movie emerged, A Monstrous Corpse (1981) and, although it was an investigative drama rather than a blood-soaked horror, it was the foundation for movies that are perhaps now more immediately associated with filmmakers from the East than the West.
