ISSUE 3: “All of Us Are Dead” Has Me Braindead

Run for your life!

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Official promotional poster for “All of us are dead”, portraying students trying to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Christian Dingle, Staff Writer

The new Korean Netflix horror film “All Of Us Are Dead” was released on Friday, Jan. 28 and has piqued interest among American fans. The setting takes place in a South Korean city, where a zombie outbreak starts from a high school science teacher experimenting with rats. Starting with a girl getting bitten by an infected rat, she slowly starts her transformation into a zombie.

As the outbreak starts to spread further throughout the high school, students panic and try their absolute best to escape the chaos, making this show very fast-paced. With people turning into zombies left and right, there are not many places to hide inside the school.

I, however, didn’t enjoy watching this show. Despite every episode ending with a cliffhanger, I couldn’t bring myself to find interest in watching what happens next.  While there’s a good balance between the timing of dialogue and action, the action scenes are very intense, while the dialogue scenes are unbelievably boring. Most of the action is just chasing scenes, and the dialogue is mostly about unintriguing drama.

Another thing I would like to warn you about is the gore. Yes, there is a lot of blood and gore in this show. If you don’t like that, then this show would definitely make you uncomfortable.

To be honest, this show could’ve been so much better. I was really hoping for less dialogue (unless there was actual good drama) and more intense scenes. The setting is also limited to a school, which makes the show less intriguing. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being very good, I’d give this show a 5. While I DID enjoy the chasing scenes, I can’t help but point out the repetition. If there was good drama to compensate for the repetition of the action, I would definitely recommend watching this show.