{"id":377754,"date":"2026-04-13T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:05:09","slug":"train-to-busans-director-is-reinventing-the-zombie-thriller-again-with-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377754\/","title":{"rendered":"Train to Busan’s director is reinventing the zombie thriller again with Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watch the first teaser for Colony, Yeon Sang-ho’s latest blood-soaked horror movie<\/p>\n

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For horror fans \u2014 particularly fans of Yeon Sang-ho<\/a>‘s stellar 2016 zombie actioner Train to Busan, and its sequel, Peninsula<\/a> \u2014 the recent news that the director has a new zombie movie coming to Cannes this year<\/a> was a welcome promise of good things to come. The first teaser trailer for Colony has landed, and it’s even more of an appetite-whetter.<\/p>\n

The movie is set at a biotech conference where a viral outbreak causes law enforcement to seal off the building, leaving survivors trapped inside with a horde of rapidly evolving creepy creatures that used to be human. The first footage emphasizes what “used to be human” means, with the infected crawling on all fours, then learning how to better mimic their human prey.<\/p>\n

Train to Busan became an international hit and an enduring cult phenomenon because it both goes back to basics with the zombie survival thriller genre, and gives it a reckless, exciting new energy. Even for people who’ve largely gotten tired of zombie cinema (hey, that’s me!), Train to Busan is a sit-up-and-take notice experience. The characters are great (particularly the hulking blue-collar worker played by Ma Dong-seok<\/a>, in his breakout role) and the action is frenetic, unrelenting, and breathless. It’s exciting every time Yeon Sang-ho comes back to the zombie genre, and this opening teaser for Colony shows a lot of promise.<\/p>\n

Colony will hit theaters on August 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

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From slashers to final girls, masked murderers to evil mirrors, tropes are a big part of what makes horror movies so much fun. This week Polygon is exploring all of the most interesting tropes that make the horror genre tick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Link copied to clipboard Published Apr 13, 2026, 2:11\u202fPM EDT Watch the first teaser for Colony, Yeon Sang-ho’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-377754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}