Nothing like a zombie movie, amirite? I do love a good one but these days, zombies are oversaturated. There's been so many movies, plus The Walking Dead (remember when I used to recap that show? good times) and its spin-offs, that it's just difficult to come up with something new and exciting. #Alive (2020, Korean, with English subtitles, on Netflix) is decent but not particularly groundbreaking.
The apocalypse (mini-apocalypse, really, very limited) happens quickly: people get infected, then they eat other people, then they get gnarlier and gnarlier as the disease progresses. These are the fast zombie variety and technically they're not zombies since they're still alive (hahaha #alive lol); they are of the 28 Days/Weeks ilk: infected and deadly.
Our protagonist is a gamer dude who lives at home. When he wakes up late one morning, finding a note from his mom that there's not much food in the house so he should go to the store, all hell breaks loose in Seoul. Suffice it to say that he doesn't get a chance to grocery shop. He hunkers down in the apartment, posts on social media to let people know he's still alive, and watches horrible things happening on the street below him. Days pass, zombies break in sporadically although he's mostly barricaded in, the water gets shut off - and here's a quibble, how the fuck does he survive for fifteen days with scarcely any water? - and eventually he gets desperate. But soft! What light from yonder window breaks? It's another survivor in the apartment building across the way and thank goodness, she's a LOT more competent than our guy.
#Alive is entertaining enough, slightly different from the usual zombie fare due to the main characters' extreme isolation. The zombie makeup is really good, which makes up for the fact that this isn't a particularly scary movie. Or maybe after the last six years, zombies just don't scare me anymore.
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