Episode 364: Colony (2026)

Send us Fan MailOnce the Bone Temple was released we looked at the calendar and the next big ticket item for zombie movie fans wasn't the gender swap NOTLD remake (another one!) or the scene by scene remake of ROTLD, no, sir, it was the next zombie movie by Yeon Sang-ho the write/director of Train to Busan - Colony.Colony tells the story of a bio-terror attack in a building that has office and conference spaces in the top floors and a shopping mall on the lower levels. Disgraced awkward professor Kwon and her ex-husband Han are invited to a presentation by Chain Bio, who are using natural design in their technology, most notably, using the idea of Mycelium to allow electronic components to communicate instead of using wires, carbon, optical cabling.An overly villainous villain played by Peninsula's Koo Kyo-hwan injects the CEO with the virus and with some classic South Korean bone cracking, body morphing, goo spewing changes he is patient #1. Or is he?The infection spreads through the building and we have the normal rag tag group of survivors including a cop on a mission, a business suit, a teen and her bullies, and a security guard and his disabled sister, joining Kwon and Han as they try to escape.Fast paced, with a lot of excellent new hive mind elements, I found I didn't need the villain to be so villainous, and I didn't need the Jason opening his eyes at the bottom of the lake ending, but the rest is superb. Is it better than Train to Busan? Not in my eyes, but it is very good. Certainly better than the other movies we have seen this year.7/10 and def worth a watch when you can, despite it's shortcomings.