among film geeks and horror enthusiasts, the word “zombie” is known to draw blood between even the closest of friends. From “28 Days Later” to “Warm Bodies” to the seemingly dozens of seasons of “The Walking Dead,” zombies feel like they will never die out, pun semi-intended. With an origin that can be traced back to the days of early cinema, the subgenre’s undergone its fair share of reinventions, reimaginings, and repurposings to last a lifetime.

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Let’s recap: South Korean cinema is terrific because these forward-thinking filmmakers— directors like Park Chan-Wook (“The Handmaiden”), Kim Ki-Duk (“Pietà”), Lee Chang-dong (“Burning”), Bong Joon Ho (“The Host”), Kim Ji-woon (“I Saw the Devil”) to name just a few — are masters of tone deftly flying through moods of hilarious dark humor, tragic pathos and back again while riding horseback and doing backflips through myriad genres; their deftness is a thing of beauty to behold.

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It’s been two years since “Kingdom” was announced and touted as a South Korean supergroup collaboration between two of Korea’s strongest storytellers— director Kim Seong-hun whose last movie “Tunnel” was a top five movie at the Korean box office in 2016; and writer Kim Eun-hee whose series “Signal” was one of the top Korean dramas of that year. Together, they had joined forces for an ambitious genre mashup: “Kingdom” is set in Korea’s medieval Joseon period where a crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious outbreak that leads him to a brutal truth that threatens the kingdom.

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