Overview
- The zombie thriller, which premiered Friday in Cannes’ Midnight Screenings, drew what Times Now reported as a seven-minute standing ovation.
- Critics at The Playlist, Little White Lies and IndieWire praised the dancer-driven movement and production polish but flagged thin characters, busy plotting and over-explained lore.
- Set in a quarantined Seoul high-rise during a biotech conference, the film recasts the infected as a communicating collective that echoes Yeon Sang-ho’s concerns about AI and high-speed information culture.
- South Korea is slated to open the film on May 21, while FandomWire lists an August 28 limited U.S. date and IndieWire says U.S. distribution remains unconfirmed.
- Yeon said he hired teams of professional dancers and kept CGI to a minimum to portray the hive as one organism made of distinct parts.