Months later, zombie movies — which divide the world into crudely opposing camps — can seem more apt. In “Night of the Living Dead,” the 1968 George A. Romero film that set loose the zombie hordes, a man teases his sister about her fears. “They’re coming to get you,” he jokes right before a zombie staggers up, attacking him and sending the sister into a house that becomes her bunker. The South Korean zombie movie “Peninsula” is a strange, preposterously resonant movie to watch now. Like most zombie movies, it quickly turns into a cat-and-mouse chase with decaying flesh and a lot of chomp-chomp, bang-bang — with periodic nods at themes like family and community, the absence of the state and its possible substitute.

Source: New York Times August 20, 2020 10:52 UTC