Yoo Ah-in, who was so good in Burning as Lee Jong-su, essentially repeats the performance here playing Oh Joon-woo, the same gormless kid gaping dumbly at a set of circumstances beyond his comprehension - here, a cannibal zombie onslaught in an apartment complex - and it really is this and the performance of his costar, Park Shin-hye as a fellow survivor in an apartment across the way, that help overcome several cheats in the script - zombie hordes who suddenly aren't a threat at a door, for example - and elevates this slight string of zombie survival set-pieces into something human and affecting.
★★★☆☆
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