Gagnam Zombie (2023) Movie Review

Gagnam Zombie (2023) Official Trailer

Cast

Ji Il-Joo plays Hyeon-seok and recently starred in Crash Course in Romance (2023) television series. Park Ji-yeon plays Min-jeong and recently starred in Imitation (2021) television series. Kyuong-Hoon Jo plays Wong-i and recently starred in Hello, Me! (2021) television series. Kyoung-Hoon Jo plays Wong-i and recently starred in Hello, Me! (2021) television series. Choi Min plays Tae-soo and recently starred in Cinderella and the Four Knights (2016) television series.

Plot

During the Christmas holidays during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wong-i and another man break into a Chinese cargo container. Wong-i gets bitten and infected from a cat. In the Gangnam District, he eventually enters in SK Motors building whereby a zombie pandemic begins. Hyeon-seok, a former taekwondo champion, has a crush on his co-worker Min-jeong and as the pandemic spreads through the entire building, Hyeon-seok becomes the hero and ultimately escapes with Min-Jeong or so he thinks.

Review

This movie tried to infuse comedy with horror and zombies, but it failed miserably at both. This movie was never intended to be Train to Busan but sometimes it portrayed it as such. The plot was sanguine at best and quite unimpressive at worst, but the plot needed a lot of work to begin with. Overall, the filmography and especially the plot made the movie not worth watching. Even by B-movie standards, American or Korean, this movie simply won’t cut it.

Verdict (Out of 10)

Fringe Fiction gives this movie a disappointing 3.7 out of 10. This takes some effort for a movie to bring itself this low.