#Alive (2020)

The rapid spread of an unknown infection has left an entire city in ungovernable chaos, but one survivor remains alive in isolation. It is his story.

Director:

Il Cho

Writers:

Il Cho (screenplay), Matt Naylor

Stars:

Ah-In Yoo, Shin-Hye Park, Bae-soo Jeon

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ah-In Yoo	...	Oh Joon-woo
Shin-Hye Park	...	Kim Yoo-bin
Bae-soo Jeon	...	Mask man
Hyun-Wook Lee	...	Lee Sang-cheol
Hye-Won Oh	...	Police officer
Woon Jong Jeon	...	Infected fireman
Kyu-Ho Lee	...	Infected burly person
Chae Kyung Lee	...	Mask man's wife
Kyeong-won Son	...	Infected security guard
Yun-ho Park	...	Infected person #1
Seong-soo Han	...	Infected person #3
Danbi Kim	...	Infected person #6
Ra-Hee Kim	...	Infected person #10
Hak-seon Kim	...	Joon-woo's father
Hee-Jung So	...	Joon-woo's mother

Storyline

The rapid spread of an unknown infection has left an entire city in ungovernable chaos, but one survivor remains alive in isolation. It is his story.

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Plot Keywords:

city | isolation | seoul | apartment | zombie | 

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Taglines:

You Must Survive

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the first film that made the biggest opening and surpassed one million viewers at the South Korean box office since the COVID-19 pandemic in February. After taking the top in the box office for 21 days, it achieved the top rank in video-on-demand sales for four weeks. Starting with this film, the vitality of the domestic theaters led to Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020), Steel Rain 2 (2020) and Deliver Us from Evil (2020) until before the second pandemic in mid-August in South Korea.

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Goofs

When the main character's apartment is broken into by the zombie, the display on the refrigerator is active and showing the temperature of the fridge and freezer. Either that is an extremely long cord or it runs on batteries.

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Connections

Referenced in WatchMojo: Top 10 Picks for Netflix and Chills (2020)

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Soundtracks

Break
Performed by Beenzino
Played during Joon-woo's dance scene

User Reviews

#Imaginative.

I rather enjoyed #Alive, it didn't feel like the average zombie movie. There seemed to be some parallels between the imagined threat here, and the very real threat, Coronavirus. There's a great scene where our man looks outside fearfully, and then looks at his food rations, something many people have done in 2020.

It's very nicely acted, nicely shot, it feels very fresh and current. The moments of horror were very nicely done, and never became too silly. Some nice twists, it's never predictable.

It has a real sense of doom, and terror about it, the way things gradually collapse, that said the action begins quickly, they don't hang around.

It's good, 7/10.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site - Perspective Pictures

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

8 September 2020 (USA)

Also Known As:

#Alive

Filming Locations:

Studio Cube, Dajeon, South Korea

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$13,416,285

Company Credits

Production Co:

Zip Cinema, Perspective Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1