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Crown Prince Chang (Ju Ji-Hoon) and his bodyguard Mu-yeong (Kim
Sang-ho) have made it to Seobi's (Bae Doona) clinic for the poor - to find
the place fortified but at the same time utterly deserted. What's worse
though, hidden below the floorboards they find a bunch of corpses, 48 to
be precise. They hand over the case to local authorities to find the
Emperor's surgeon, and soon stumble across Seobi - and when they tell her
the corpses have been unearthed to be examined, she pretty much panics and
insists to return to the city at once. Chang sends Myeong with her, even
if he thinks she over-reacts, and goes on to try and trail down the
surgeon on his own - to run into the men of his arch enemy Chancellor Cho
(Ryu Seung-ryong). A fight ensues that, by nightfall, is interrupted by
heavy knocking that comes from inside a box. Of course, everybody's too
curious to keep it closed ... Meanwhile, Seobi and Myeong arrive at the
public inquiry just before nightfall, but Seobi has no means of stopping
this - and by nightfall, the corpses rise to attack the living ... Back
with the Crown Prince, the box is opened, and out leaps a corpse to attack
them all, killing all of Chang's foes before he can behead the undead. But
of course, faced with this encounter, Chang expects nothing but the worst
from the inquiry ... This series has to be admired for its
slowburn build-up. After all, everybody knows this is about zombies from
the get-go, and yet it tells a multi-layered story rather going full blast
zombie action from the get-go, instead giving us just chunks for the time
being to rather spin its yarn. And of course a swift directorial effort
with an emphasis on atmosphere as well as lush locations and costumes
really make this work.
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