If you want to talk about Korean zombie films, the status of "Train to Busan" is unshakable.
In 2016, this film made the first shot of Asian zombie films, and also made director Yeon Sang-ho win numerous awards and become famous.
Since then, everyone has been thinking about the appearance of "Train to Busan 2", but as a result, it is a squib, which is simply incomparable with the first part.
Recently, the director has teamed up with Netflix to release a new type of thriller.
There are no viruses and zombies gnawing at each other, only monsters and people eating people-
Parasite: Gray Force
Parasitic Tree: The Grey
After all, it is adapted from the top IP of the classic Japanese anime "Parasite", and everyone's expectations for the Korean drama version are also rising.
This Japanese comic produced in 1990 may be older than some netizens.
It tells the story of a small monster from the universe that invades the earth and triggers a race war between humans and parasites.
In 2014, he successively released an animated version and a live-action version of the movie, and the reputation was quite good.
The animated version of Douban scored 9.2 points, but because of the restricted-level bloody horror elements, it was classified as "18 banned" and banned from the whole network.
And this time Netflix is launched, it is a Korean adaptation.
Although the changes are great, the scale of the Korean version is still vigorous, and the current IMDB score is 8.0 points.
First of all, many of the images may cause physical discomfort, and if you are heavy-mouthed, it is too right......
The story begins.
Some strange little monsters silently crawl into your ears and into your body little by little.
Grow stronger with your body every day.
Suddenly, one day, you realize that your head will bloom! and you will kill people......
And you have many of your kind, all possessed by little monsters.
What is a little monster?
It's some parasitic creatures from the extraterrestrial world, they come to the world, find a host, and be able to parasitize.
And the only way for them to survive is to parasitize the human body, starting with the larvae to burrow into the human brain, eating the brain and completely occupying the body.
What do they eat for a living? That's right, cannibalism!
A man who was partying in a bar was bitten by a little monster in an instant, and he struggled a few times, and then turned into a parasitic beast in seconds.
He walked into the crowd with a dull gaze, and his head was directly split into several meat petals, eating whoever he wanted.
What else is there besides this form of parasitic beast?
Don't be afraid, there is no most explosive, only more explosive.
Some bloom directly, and the stamens can reach out to the mouth of the person opposite.
Some people are still in place, their eyes already stretched out 100 meters away.
Some can fly in the air, and some can be split and freely assembled at any time.
What's more, all parasitic beasts can quickly smell their own kind, and when they get closer, they know that they are their friends.
Of course, parasitic beasts don't just kill people, they also save people.
The heroine, Hidehito, is a cashier at a supermarket who has lived a miserable life since she was a child, abandoned by her mother, and mentally abused by her father.
Later, Xiuren couldn't bear his father anymore, so he called the police and asked the police to arrest him.
I wanted to go to my mother, but I was abandoned by my mother again.
This kind of life makes Xiuren feel that she has been an unlucky person since she was born, so she is accustomed to all kinds of bad luck on weekdays.
On this day, she meets a foul-mouthed male guest and threatens to kill Hidehito.
Xiuren thought to himself, it's another unlucky day, and it's good to pass.
Unexpectedly, this man held a grudge and drove Xiuren, who had just gotten off work, to the ground, and then took out a knife and stabbed him several times, and the blood flowed like a river.
He wanted to kill Hidehito, and Hidehito felt that his life was about to end here.
But suddenly, a blood-colored crack appeared in the middle of the man's head, and his body seemed to have been split by lightning.
Hidehito didn't die, he died inexplicably.
When Hidehito woke up, he found himself unharmed.
Confused, she began to notice strange places on her body.
First there would be a buzzing sound in her ears, and then someone would stare at her and ask if she was the same kind of person.
It turned out that night, the little monster got into Hidehito's body, and if the monster wanted to live, the parasitic body had to live, so it was it that saved Hidehito.
Hidehito successfully transformed into a parasitic beast.
is also a parasitic beast, and the little gangster Xue Qiangyou is not so lucky.
After his sister was parasitized, he killed their youngest sister. When he was looking for his sister, he accidentally broke into the lair of the parasitic beast, only to find that his sister was frozen and hung in front of him.
It turns out that they not only kill people and eat people, but also have their own refrigerators to store people's stumps, and in case they are hungry, they will first pad their stomachs.
Only then did Xue Qiangyou discover that his sister, who had a brain tumor, now looks completely healthy because she has become a parasitic beast, and she has become murderous without blinking.
Like destroying zombies, parasitic beasts must be killed so that they will not continue to harm people.
Thus, the Gray Forces were formed.
Team leader Choi Jun-kyung is a victim of a parasitic beast, and a monster larva once burrowed into her husband's brain, and she watched him turn into a monster and cut off one of her ears.
She discovers that the only way to defeat the monster is to kill the parasitic humans.
Vowed to fight the monster to the end, she began to use her husband to find her own kind, find one and kill the other.
On this day, the gray troops locked on to the target location, a remote villa.
Seeing a beautiful woman lure a man in, and then prepare to eat him with a few companions.
At this time, a smoke grenade was thrown, and the gray troops were very skillful in maneuvering, and the small team of parasitic beasts was killed.
At the same time, the parasitic beasts are not stupid, and they can't always be deceived by Choi Junjing's husband, so they arranged an undercover agent within the police, and the task is to kill him......
This adaptation of "Parasitic Beast" is actually a completely new story, and the "Korean flavor" is very strong.
There are a total of 6 episodes, all of them have been updated, and it is more cool to brush them in one go, Sugata Masaki is the "easter egg" of the last episode!
At present, the reputation is not bad, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 100%.
In addition to the thriller, the success of this drama lies in the fact that the fantasy story is set into the realistic theme, and the analysis and re-recognition of the current situation of Korean society are thought-provoking.
Koreans really dare to shoot.
The first music festival massacre is not difficult to associate with the extravagant pleasures of the younger generation in South Korea.
The fact that the parasitic beast team is using the name of a religious group as a cover is even more obvious, and there is news about the cult in South Korea almost every day.
Besides, the heroine Xiuren has been abused by domestic violence since she was a child and bullied in school, aren't these all typical social problems in South Korea?
The most terrifying thing is that from normal people to parasitic beasts, from grassroots people to upper-level bureaucrats, almost every corner of everyone is full of words such as parasitism, hypocrisy, betrayal, etc.
This also gives the Korean version of "Parasite" a stronger political connotation.
In fact, in recent years, Korean dramas with good ratings have characteristics similar to ironic society.
The scale is large, and the problem is acute.
But in the end, the inevitable result of these problems is that they will not be solved, which is also the almost cookie-cutter failure of Korean thrillers.