One of the best things about World War Z is that it opens up the possibility of a number of movies taking place all around the globe, each with their own tale of zombie survival horror. It would not be a creative leap to call this World War Z: Train to Busan. The zombies move in the same twitchy manner and attack with the same hive/insect mentality. Zombies will fall from a passing helicopter and immediately get up on their broken bones to continue attacking the living.
In the opening scene, a truck runs over a deer. The driver checks his vehicle and moves on. As soon as he’s out of sight, the deer leaps back to its hooves, unfazed. The animal movements are so realistic, you immediately can feel confident about the quality of the digital effects.
There are only so many ways you can film people fighting from one end of a train car to the other. However, there are a fair number of additional locations, such as a lengthy stop at a deserted(?) station and a series of escalators where the humans must also deal with the automated stairs that keep bringing them down towards the zombie mob. There’s also an interesting theme counter to typical survival horror, which is usually every man for himself. The characters here learn that they need each other if they’re going to survive, and there are benefits to staying civil during such unrest.
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