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Event news: Train to Busan is the final LKFF 2016 Teaser screening

The final LKFF Teaser screening before the official festival in November. It’s sure to be popular:

Train to Busan (부산행)

Director: Yeon Sang-ho.
Starring: Gong Yoo, Kim Soo-an. South Korea 2016. 118 mins. Korean with English subtitles.
Picturehouse Central, 6 October 2016, 7pm | Book here

Train to Busan

Eurostar was never like this. Noted South Korean animation director Yeon Sang-ho (The King Of Pigs) switches to live action – and lots of CGI – for this flesh-eating thriller, which ramps up the claustrophobia by being set on a train.

Arrogant fat cat Seok Woo (Gong) and his neglected young daughter (Kim) are making the 270-mile KTX journey from Seoul to see her mother in Busan. In the opening scenes we’re also introduced to various ancillary characters who are along for the ride, plus hints of worker unrest – which, it soon transpires, is not unconnected with a zombie virus outbreak. Yeon’s melding of digital trickery, old-school make-up and ingenious stunts keeps the tension acute and prompts gasps aplenty in this worthy successor to 2013’s World War Z.

(automatically generated) Read LKL’s review of this event here.

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