Since transitioning from animation to live action, Korean writer-director Yeon Sang-ho has struggled to recapture the success of his barnstorming breakout hit, the action-packed zombie thriller Train to Busan.

He has worked predominantly with Netflix in the years since, on a string of horror-infused series (Hellbound, Parasyte: The Grey) and science fiction films (Psychokinesis, Jung_E), yet nothing has succeeded in recapturing the earlier film’s assured balance of social commentary and visceral thrills.

Yeon’s latest offering, Revelations, is adapted from a 2022 comic book he penned with Choi Gyu-seok.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here