10 Best & 10 Worst Horror Movies Of 2016

8. Train to Busan

One of two great South Korean horror exports this year, animator and director Yeon Sang-ho’s first live-action film Train to Busan impressed in its homeland and overseas, becoming South Korea’s highest grossing movie of 2016 and making a not too shabby $99 million worldwide on a modest budget of $8.5 million. The film follows workaholic businessman Seok-woo, his young daughter and a ragtag group of fellow passengers aboard a bullet train as their commute is made all the more dreadful by the outbreak of a zombie epidemic.

With movies like World War Z and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies fresh in our memories and TV shows like The Walking Dead and Z Nation clogging up the airwaves, the zombie genre is starting to feel a bit over-saturated. But while Train to Busan certainly borrows from some of these undead themed offerings – there’s elements of TWD’s melodrama and the fast zombies seen in World War Z, for example – the distrust of authority that runs through it gives it a refreshingly satirical edge that harks back to George A. Romero’s socio-political zombie films.

Plus, its frenetic pace is a nice contrast to the slow-burners that have dominated the horror genre this year.