Train to Busan

One of the overnight sensations at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — literally, it played in the Midnight Screenings section — was Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho’s zombie flick Train to Busan. Think Snowpiercer meets Night of the Living Dead: a collection of assorted travelers find themselves on a high-speed bullet train at the time of an undead outbreak, leading to a drag-down battle contained almost entirely within the cars of their transportation. It’s a tightly-constructed horror film with a good hook and competently staged action scenes, made a whopping $81.3 million in Korea alone, and archetypal characters (the teen lovers, the workaholic dad and his precocious daughter, the expecting newlyweds) — this thing was begging for an American remake, one hopefully more in line with The Departed than The Secret in Their Eyes.