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Yieutjib Jombi
The Neighbor Zombie
South Korea 2010
directed by Oh Young-Doo (episodes Crack, Run Away), Hong Young-Geun (episodes Mother, I Love You, Pain Killer), Ryoo Hoon (episode The Age of Vaccine), Jang Youn-Jung (episode After That, I'm so Sorry)
starring Hong Young-Geun, Ryoo Hoon, Kim Yeo-jini, Bae Yong-geun, Ha Eun-Jung, Lim Jeong-seon, Bae Ji-hun, Kim Hyeon-tae, Lee Gyu-seop, Lee Jeong-eun, Lee Ju-Yeon, Lee Ye-seon, Lee Yun-seok, No Seung-wu, No Seung-wu, Seo Yun-ah, Yun Seon-hee
written by Oh Young-Doo (episodes Crack, Run Away), Hong Young-Geun (episodes Mother, I Love You, Pain Killer), Ryoo Hoon (episode The Age of Vaccine), Jang Youn-Jung (episode After That, I'm so Sorry)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Six stories about zombies that seem to take place in the same fictional
world in chronological order, but are otherwise unrelated:
- Crack: To his terror, a guy has to notice he is turning into a zombie. And
since he feels a sudden craving for human flesh and lives all alone,
he starts eating himself.
- Run Away: Just because a guy'sm turning into a zombie doesn't keep his
girlfriend from loving him and sticking by him - even if that means
she'll eventually be zombified as well.
- Mother, I Love You: A mother feeds her zombified son fingers from her own hand (quite
literally "the hand that feeds you" then) ... until a
zombiehunter stops by to take care of the zombie-boy, but she decides
to knock him out and feed him to the young one instead ...
- The Age fof Vaccine: 3 zombie hunters run into a guy who claims he has an
anti-zombification-serum - and the three get so excited about it that
they start fighting over it and fail to notice the guy is actually
the leader of a zombie gang who has lured them into a trap.
- After That, I'm so Sorry: A vaccine has gotten rid of all the zombies in the city, and some of
them are even brought back to human life. However, there are those
whose loved-ones were killed by zombies, and they now want their
revenge - on those who have come back from living death ...
- Pain Killer: A writer frantically writes on his zombie novel to meet a deadline,
and while doing so, he fails to notice (or remember?) he has been
infected by the zombie virus himself ... and is slowly turning into a
living dead while writing about them ...
In concept, this film sounds at least interesting: To tell six
unrelated short stories held together by a common timeline. Also, at least some of the stories
show good ideas!
Unfortunately though, an interesting concept and good ideas don't
necessarily lead up to a good film - and quite frankly, The Neighbor
Zombie isn't, basically because it tries way too hard to be a loving
genre hommage to be anything else, and thus the good ideas are never
developed into something original, something out-of-the-box, and instead
go the exact way all zombie stories go, with the same action sequences and
suspense and gore
scenes you have seen (and probably been bored by) a hundred times before
... which above all else shows you how stale the zombie genre has grown by 2010.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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