Charlie Jones

WORDS: Charlie Jones Taking its cues from George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978), Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony, the director’s first zombie film since Peninsula in 2020, sees the survivors of a bio-terrorist attack trapped in a commercial building, fighting for survival against a swarm of flesh-eating zombies. In place of Dawn’s iconic Monroeville Mall is the sky-scraping Dongwoo-ri Building, a shopping mall and conference centre rolled into one, where biotech company CEO Kang Woo-chul (Kim...

What statement Spielberg is trying to make is somewhat unclear: that feigned government ignorance of extraterrestrial life is a kayfabe of sorts? That in our world, as in wrestling, the line between reality and fiction is blurred? That human nature is intrinsically violent? Whatever the case, it’s striking.