Night of the Undead

Right, well as I sat down here late in 2022 to watch the 2020 South Korean sci-fi comedy "Jukji Anneun Ingan-Deul-e Bam" (aka "Night of the Undead"), I must admit that I was expecting this to be a zombie movie, given the movie's title.

So imagine my surprise when this movie was not a zombie movie, but instead a movie about some extraterrestrial being coming to earth and disguising itself as a man. Yeah, talk about a misguiding movie title.

And to make matters worse, then writers Hang-jun Jang and Jeong-won Shin managed to collectively dish out a script and storyline with about as much appeal as cardboard. This storyline in this movie was just so paper-thin that there hardly was any entertainment value to it. In fact, I even dozed off to Slumberland once during the nearly two hours that the movie trotted on for.

Sure, they had a good cast ensemble with some familiar faces. But it was a real shame that they virtually and literally had nothing to work with in terms of a proper script.

Not only was the movie something else entirely than I had anticipated, but it was also frightfully devoid of funny situations. So I wasn't event brought to laughs as I suffered through 110 minutes of the ordeal that is this movie.

If you, like I do, enjoy the South Korean cinema, give this movie a wide berth. It just simply isn't worth the effort.

My rating of director Jeong-won Shin's 2020 movie lands on a two out of ten stars.