Taman kada sam pomislio da više nema zombie filma koji bi me mogao iznenaditi i oduševiti, prošle godine pojavio se Korejski film Train to Busan, koji ne samo da me je oduševio, već se prometnuo u meni osobno najdraži i najbolji film 2016. godine (k vragu, moram više izbaciti tu listu!). I ove godine nam iz Azije, tj., ovoga puta iz Hong Konga, dolazi još jedan zombie film, Hongkonški akcijski zombie horor Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight redatelja Alana Loa. Nekako sumnjam da će ponoviti uspjeh Vlaka za Busan, li mogao bi barem biti zabavan.
Zombiology donosi priču o Lungu i Chi-Yeungu, dva ekscentrična i vatrena mladića koji vode žestoki život, a koji sanjare o tome da postanu heroji koji će spasiti svijet. A svoju priliku da to uistinu i postanu će dobiti kada čudovište iz Lungove omiljene animacije izađe u stvarni svijet i počne ljude pretvarati u krvožedne zombije, uključujući i Lungove susjede. Kako bi spasili svoje najmilije, Lung i Chi-Yeung će se upustiti u borbu protiv zombija i svima pokazati da nisu gubitnici!
Ovako na prvu ruku, Zombiology djeluje kao neka čudna Hongkonška verzija kultne zombie komedije Shaun of the Dead. No, ako sam dobro shvatio Zombiology je zapravo snimljen prema (istoimenom) HK stripu. Bilo kako bilo, u glavnim ulogama su Cherry Ngan, Kai-Chung Cheung, Alex Man, Carrie Ng, Michael Ning, te Venus Wong. Hongkonška premijera filma Zombiology će se održati 29. lipnja 2017.

 

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Lung and Chi-Yeung are two eccentric hot-blooded young men leading a devil-may-care life. They deem themselves as heroes that can save the earth. However, Lung can do nothing about things in life that don’t work out as he wishes: he has to move out from where he has grown up; his step-mother Shan has chronic depression; he finds his father who’s just out of jail so annoying to get on with; his friend Chi-Yeung is fervently chasing a girl named Chan-Yat  while his own idol, a star called Yee-Sue, is still unreachable. In the meantime, a monster from Lung’s favorite animation appears in the city out of reason and turns people into zombies. The outbreak of this zombie crisis is followed by a widespread chaos all round. Even Lung’s neighbors have become zombies as well. Lung’s father happens to be out of town traveling with Shan. And Chan-Yat has gone missing too. Lung risks his life to break into the infected town in order to take her back home and meanwhile realizes he is merely a loser and slick talker. But he decides not to avoid anymore and to fight a battle against zombies tonight.