Zombies have become so ubiquitous in recent years that their infectious reach extends well beyond the realm of horror cinema. Pil Gam-sung’s hit comedy My Daughter Is a Zombie is a prime example of this phenomenon.

Adapted from a bestselling webtoon, the film chronicles the efforts of a single father (Jo Jung-suk) to protect his daughter (Choi Yoo-ri) from extermination after she succumbs to a zombie virus.

Rather than a horror movie, the film lurches wildly from broad comedy to cloying melodrama through a combination of larger-than-life characters and homespun family values.

Read my full South China Morning Post review