South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho already has a great relationship with Netflix. The “Train To Busan” director teamed up with the streaming giant for the series “Hellbound,” its second season coming soon. Sang-ho has an adaptation of the popular manga “Parasyte: The Grey” coming to Netflix, too. Now, a new film from Sang-ho for Netflix emerges: “Jung_E,” a dystopian sci-fi actioner.

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Netflix must like working with South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho. With a new season of “Hellbound” on the way and an adaptation of the manga series “Parasyte: The Grey,” another series from Yeon is coming to the streamer. Deadline reports that he’ll start production soon on “The Bequeathed,” a suspense drama about the important Korean tradition of family burial grounds.  

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A man sits in a coffee shop, staring at the clock on his phone, terror rising on his face as his hands tremble. Suddenly, the ground shakes and three massive gray creatures emerge from thin air. They are demons, sent to drag the man to Hell. First, they must perform the demonstration, showing everyone the torturous eternity that awaits this man. They smash him around the shop, down the street, and push his face so hard into a bus window that it breaks.

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On March 23, in the year of our pandemic clusterfuck, 9 of our 50 United States issued stay at home advisories for residents as their COVID-19 response: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Since then, most of the remaining states have followed suit. But because Americans can’t ever do what’s right or sensible, anti-quarantine and anti-mask movements have sprung up in defiance of logic, not to mention concern for the wellbeing of their neighbors, family, and friends. 

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When it was released four years ago, “Train to Busan” became a fan-favorite in the world of horror due to its unique take on the zombie genre. Due to the massive success of “The Walking Dead,” the zombie genre quickly became oversaturated and it felt like fans had seen everything. But ‘Busan’ was different. And now, the film’s sequel, “Peninsula,” looks to once again expand the zombie genre in a new direction.

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Netflix continues to back Korean series about monsters and demons. In addition to two seasons of zombie period drama “Kingdom,” the streaming platform also recently announced a new series adapted from the Korean webtoon “All of Us Are Dead.” Now, Netflix is heading to a bit of an underworld with “Hellbound” a new series with Yeon Sang-ho from “Train to Busan” and the upcoming “Peninsula” as a director.

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In the world of zombie horror films, you have to sift through a bunch of subpar films to find something truly worth your time. So many films in the subgenre just recycle the same ideas and themes, borrowing way too much from the legendary George Romero. But in 2016, the South Korean feature, “Train to Busan,” was released and showed that there’s still some life left in zombie films.

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For many, “Train to Busan” is one of the best modern zombie films. By taking the tried and true premise of a zombie apocalypse and putting it in the harsh confines of a moving train, ‘Busan’ is a truly original film that is able to create tension and truly amazing moments in a way that other zombie films so often fail to do. And now, several years after the first film hit theaters, the sequel, “Peninsula” is prepping for its debut and Screen Daily has provided a first look at the film.

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Two years ago, South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho showed there was plenty of life left in the zombie genre with “Train To Busan.” His energetic take on the horror movie staple drew global acclaim, and director struck while the iron is hot. He’s already got his next movie on the way with “Psychokinesis,” and it sees the filmmaker turning his talents to superheroes.

Starring Ryoo Seung-Ryong, Shim Eun-Kyung, Park Jung-Min, Kim Min-Jae, Jung Yu-Mi, and Kang Sang-Won, the story follows an ordinary man who happens to gain a supernatural power, and uses it to try and save his daughter after she gets involved in an unexpected accident.

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Here’s a little trick for you: want to know what the next high-profile Hollywood genre film will be? Look no further than the South Korean film market. Over the past few years, South Korea has become a breeding ground for Hollywood remakes and adaptations, with 2016’s “Train to Busan” serving as a perfect case study. Moving carefully between horror, action, and drama, Yeon Sang-ho‘s tale of a father who will stop at nothing to protect his daughter in the midst of a zombie apocalypse was an instant smash hit, setting the all-time box office record in Hong Kong and ending the year on countless horror Top 10 lists (ours included!). 

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Earlier this month, we debuted the first installment of our On The Rise series for this year by looking at the actors and actresses we’re tapping for big things to come. But looking at the talent in front of camera only tells a small portion of the story: they wouldn’t be anywhere without the people who actually make the movies.

It’s an infectious feeling to walk out of a film and know that you’ve watched the start of what promises to be an enormously exciting career, and the emergence of new voices is one of the things that makes the movies so exciting.

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