Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day? Here is another frenzied K-zombie action-horror from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula. Colony is frontloaded with 10 minutes of sciencey exposition and setup during which a biotech CEO mentions maze-solving slime mould and the pioneering work of the
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- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 27 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC
- Source updated
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- Byline
- Laurence Phelan
- Section
- Horror films
This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day? Here is another frenzied K-zombie action-horror from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula. Colony is frontloaded with 10 minutes of sciencey exposition and setup during which a biotech CEO mentions maze-solving slime mould and the pioneering work of the
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Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day? Here is another frenzied K-zombie action-horror from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula. Colony is frontloaded with 10 minutes of sciencey exposition and setup during which a biotech CEO mentions maze-solving slime mould and the pioneering work of the
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- #3036
- Observed
- 27 Aug 2026, 06:15 UTC
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- 200 / parsed
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- 483,482 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt