Review | The Curse – Dawn of the Dead – ZOMBIES Seek Revenge in Horror from ‘Zombie Raid’ Screenwriter

It’s nothing new that South Korean productions are finding success with Brazilian audiences. From dramas that enchant young people and teenagers alike, to recent award-winning classics such as “Parasite” and “Round 6”, South Korean island productions are captivating the world in every field. . It would be no different when it comes to horror productions and their derivatives, because, as we could see with ‘Invasão Zumbi’, the people there have a lot to say to each other. The most recent title from this country that reaches the Brazilian public is called “A Maldição – Despertar dos Mortos”, and arrives in national cinemas starting this week.

Im Jin Hee (Uhm Ji-won) is a young journalist who gave up everything to create her own independent media. As a result, she struggles to keep up with the bills and has to sell her books, which are about occult and demonic possession, but few people take her seriously. One day, she is invited to give an interview to a local radio station, and, during the conversation, she is interrupted by a listener, who calls claiming to be the murderer of a recent bizarre homicide case. had not yet been revealed by the police. The listener asks to give Jin an exclusive. Confused and scared, Jin agrees to the interview, but she doesn’t expect the killer to crumble to dust just like the murdered victim days before, and that it all means a grand conspiracy in which a horde of murderous zombies seek to get revenge on the directors. of a large multinational. .

Written by Sang-ho Yeon, the same screenwriter of ‘Zombie Invasion’ (2016) and ‘Zombie Invasion 2: Peninsula’ (2020), it’s clear that the screenwriter’s passion is to think of stories involving zombies. It’s cool because fans of this type of film can continue to follow its productions and will always find great entertainment involving the walking dead – which in ‘The Curse – Awakening of the Dead’ are people coming back to life and murder people in the conventional way, except when the police find out their identities, they realize the homicides have been dead for months. A good balcony.

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‘The Curse – Awakening of the Dead’ mixes several genres, without defining itself as one of them. Despite having dozens of zombies running around in a choreographed fashion (which causes a very cool visual effect) and interesting makeup to create bubbles in people’s faces when they come in contact with a certain substance, maybe the genre which most defines Yong-wan Kim’s present as action, given the various scenes of police chase, running, tensing under guns, and more. The film still finds space to root its motivation in the cultural aspects of a neighboring country, Indonesia, and its occult rituals of manipulating the dead – the jaechaui, the dead who rise to life and are able to speak.

With a lot of action and something of terror, ‘The Curse – Awakening of the Dead’ surprises by its quality and to bring real elements to its argument. Even focusing on one genre and hitting the other, it’s a good movie that will appeal to those who already follow Sang-ho Yeon’s stories, and a big-screen zombie movie is always in good demand in movies. halls.

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