{"id":53646,"date":"2026-05-19T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53646"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:15:45","slug":"how-colony-features-a-new-kind-of-zombie-to-reflect-modern-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53646","title":{"rendered":"How Colony features a new kind of zombie to reflect modern fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/19\/2a098ccc-66b4-4325-a7a0-f3fb0db43a81_6eb4e0b4.jpg?itok=QutNZ0a8&amp;v=1779162731\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yeon Sang-ho sleeps soundly at night \u2013 no bad dreams, no night terrors, thank you very much. \u201cWhen I get to bed, I\u2019m just completely exhausted,\u201d the 47-year-old South Korean director says with a grin. \u201cWhen I sleep, the next step is just I wake up. So I never dream or have nightmares.\u201d<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">This must have come as a relief given he has spent a decade contemplating zombies on and off following his 2016 mega-hit <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Train to Busan<\/em><\/span>.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">It is late afternoon when we meet on the windswept sixth-floor terrace of the Cannes Film Festival\u2019s Palais. In just over six hours, Yeon\u2019s new zombie film <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Colony<\/em><\/span> will receive its world premiere in a Midnight Screenings slot, echoing the unveiling of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Train to Busan<\/em> a decade ago.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yet any thought that he is simply retreading old ground should be dismissed; <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Colony<\/em> injects the genre with something fresh and frightening.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe starting point of making this movie was not to make a zombie movie,\u201d Yeon says. \u201cIt was about dealing with the potential fear of our time, and for me, it was about the high-speed exchange of information, which leads to collective consciousness.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI wanted to make a movie about this problem, and at one point, I realised that the genre that could adequately represent this would be the zombie genre.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-movies\/article\/3353976\/how-colony-features-new-kind-zombie-reflect-modern-fears?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeon Sang-ho sleeps soundly at night \u2013 no bad dreams, no night terrors, thank you very much. \u201cWhen I get to bed, I\u2019m just completely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[22812,5249,8209,2605,1468,3742,6592],"class_list":["post-53646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-colony","tag-fears","tag-features","tag-kind","tag-modern","tag-reflect","tag-zombie","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}