Yeon Sang-ho

Paradise Lost; grief and AI collide in Yeon Sang-ho’s haunting thriller: Toronto International Film Festival Review

Yeon Sang-ho has never needed monsters to expose the uglier parts of humanity. Even when working within horror, science fiction or apocalyptic spectacle, the filmmaker behind Train to Busan and Hellbound has remained fascinated by what people become when circumstances push them somewhere uncomfortable. Following Colony and The Ugly, Paradise Lost continues that fascination on…

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Film Review: Colony; thrills, bloodshed and crowd-pleasing chaos abound in inventive zombie thriller

A decade after redefining modern zombie cinema with Train to Busan, filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho returns to familiar infected territory with Colony, a frenetic, blood-soaked thriller that trades speeding trains for a towering Seoul skyscraper. While it never quite reaches the emotional highs or cultural impact of its predecessor, it remains an entertaining and inventive genre…

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Interview: Colony director Yeon Sang-ho on the evolution of the zombie movie and why his latest monster creations may be more human than we expect

Few filmmakers have done more to redefine the zombie genre than Yeon Sang-ho. Nearly a decade after Train to Busan transformed a familiar horror concept into a razor-sharp reflection of modern society, the South Korean filmmaker returns to the infected with Colony, an ambitious new thriller that asks a far more unsettling question: what if…

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