12 Hidden Gem Zombie Movies You've Probably Never Seen

With Parasite's shock Oscar Best Picture win, there has never been more attention on the movies of South Korea. That attention has helped Yeon Sang-ho's tense and fast paced Train To Busan to remain one of the most discussed and recommended zombie films of recent years. That film is not the director's only zombie work, though.

Less than a month after Train To Busan, this companion movie arrived and flew a little under the radar for international audiences. It deserves to be seen, though, for fans of both zombies in general and Yeon's breakout hit specifically.

Narratively a prequel set around the station in which Train To Busan begins, Seoul Station hews closer in style to Yeon's earlier film King Of Pigs in being a violent animated feature about the underbelly of Korean society. Here a sex worker, her no-good boyfriend and her "father" attempt to navigate the zombie outbreak from a place of far less privilege than Busan's banker hero.

Less kinetic and more downbeat and pessimistic than its sister film, Seoul Station, like the Oscar-winning Parasite, gives a glimpse into the world of those living on the margins in Korean society. Like Romero's films it uses the zombie setup to critique social and governmental structures in a truly macabre way, fleshing out the world of Train To Busan in interesting directions.

A third installment in the series, Peninsula, is out this summer and moves the story on into the post-outbreak world. Anybody looking forward to that would do well to see Seoul Station first.