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[Ominous music plays]

[Bird cawing]

[Harmonica plays]

-One year when I was at Boy Scout camp,

they put me in charge of the grapple hook.

The grapple hook is what you use

when somebody doesn't come back from group swim

and you have to dredge the bottom of the Buffalo River

and pull up their remains and call the undertaker.

[Harmonica plays]

We all loved the grapple hook.

Everybody wanted my job, but I wouldn't give up the grapple.

[Harmonica plays]

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-♪ Hey, everybody, have you heard the news? ♪

♪ Joe Bob is back in town ♪

♪ He's over at the drive-in, hanging around ♪

♪ Watching crazy movies, so come on down ♪

♪ To Joe Bob's "Last Drive-In" show ♪

♪ Blood, beasties, boobies, and more ♪

♪ Joe Bob's "Last Drive-In" show ♪

♪ It's a spooky good time with monsters and ghosts ♪

♪ Crazy, kooky fun with the world's greatest host ♪

♪ Joe Bob's "Last Drive-In" show ♪

♪ It's gonna be legendary ♪

♪ Joe Bob's "Last Drive-In" show ♪

♪ It's gonna be very scary ♪

♪ Joe Bob's "Last Drive-In" show ♪

♪ Let's go ♪

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-Darcy, I think we're gonna make it.

-What do you mean? -We're gonna make it.

We're gonna make it through the whole damn season.

-Hell yeah, we are!

-Then we can all stop watching too much TV, right?

'Cause that's what you do when you can't go out.

You say you're gonna read the complete works of Kurt Vonnegut,

but then you end up deciding you're gonna rewatch

Season 5 of "The Walking Dead"

because you're trying to remember what happened

between the escape from Terminus and the discovery

of the new survivor community on the Hilltop.

You know, I saw you watching 24 consecutive episodes

of "Friends," Darcy. That is not right.

That is wrong. -I have no excuse.

-I can't watch a show where that many people

are living in the same place

and commenting on one another's lives all the time.

-You mean kind of like us right now?

-Yeah. Too real.

-It was on. I watched it.

-Exactly. It's on, so you watch it.

One thing I gotta stop doing

is watching these political talk shows

that are always polling people.

-Oh, I just hang up on them.

-Hang up on who?

-Anyone trying to get my opinion.

-Well, they're always wrong anyway.

You know, taking polls assumes

that people tell you the truth, right?

But people already know that polling is

some kind of game, and so they automatically lie.

Some people don't even realize they're lying to the pollster,

but they are lying.

-They never get my opinion.

-Well, I know, but even if they did get your opinion --

I mean, think about what happens when you go to a restaurant.

First you get the menu, right?

You have all these choices.

And then everybody at the table

discusses what they're gonna order.

You know, I don't know why people do this.

They could just read the menu and order, right?

But they feel the need to discuss

what they're gonna order.

And while they're discussing what they're gonna order,

they tell you what they're gonna order.

But first they tell you what they might order.

"You know, the pork chops sound good.

I bet you they make a great hamburger here, though.

Oh, I have hamburger all the time.

I shouldn't get that here. What are you having?"

So now the person has suggested two things he might order,

and he's asked for a third suggestion from another person.

So the next person says, "Well, I thought I'd order

the flaming teriyaki pepper steak."

And the original guy goes, "Ohhhhh!

Flaming teriyaki pepper steak.

Yeah! That sounds great!"

And then they talk about it some more,

and they discuss it some more,

and they go into stuff about their diet, you know?

"I've probably had enough red meat for today.

I should look at the salads."

And then they discuss nine kinds of salads

that they could possibly have.

And then they make a decision.

You know, they go, "You know what?

I'm gonna try this crabcake dish with the red sauce."

So end of story, right?

So they fold the menu. They have a cocktail.

They wait around till the waiter gets there.

The waiter looks at 'em,

and they say, "I'll have the pork chops."

In other words, they never order

what they just said they were gonna order.

You know, half the time, they don't even order

anything that they've discussed ordering.

But they're not lying about it.

Two seconds before the waiter asked 'em the question,

they were certain, in their heart of hearts,

that they were indeed ordering

the crabcake dish with the red sauce.

But at the moment of truth,

the stomach sends a message to the brain,

and they just blurt out, "Pork chops."

You know? You see what I'm saying here?

You know, there are three kinds of opinion polls --

polls that you take at the stage when the menus are passed out

and you're looking over the choices,

polls that you take at the stage

when you ask other people for their suggestions,

and polls that you take at the moment

when you make your final decision and announce it.

The only time you can't take a poll

is the moment when you order.

By then, it's too late.

In other words, opinion polls assume that the person

answering the pollster's question knows what he wants.

Which, of course, he never does.

You know, he wants the pork chops.

He just hasn't figured that out yet.

And, speaking of unexpected life choices,

nothing like a fast-moving zombie apocalypse

to ruin your plans, and we've got the ultimate

"Giant Corporate Biotech Firm Makes a Boo-Boo" plot tonight.

A film that pretty much scores 100% in all opinion polls.

I don't think I've ever found a single person

who doesn't love this movie.

Of course, you know what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about "Train to Busan,"

the South Korean thriller

that took the festivals by storm in 2016

and then rampaged through the horror universe

like an out-of-control virus on a runaway train.

But surprisingly, we're still finding people

who have not yet discovered it,

so we're showing it tonight in all its two-hour glory,

and since there are those people who don't yet know

how a train movie and a zombie movie are connected,

I'll leave the plot details till later

and just say that, ever since "The Isle" in the year 2000,

the Koreans have been figuring out new ways to do horror,

and we should be grateful to guys like Yeon Sang-ho,

the writer/director, for taking tired American themes

and injecting them with new life.

Who thought you could do an original zombie story

in the year 2016? But he did.

And, by the way, when we talk about this movie tonight,

I would like to give out the names in the Western style,

with the given name first, surname second,

but, you know, like, the director's last name is "Yeon,"

so he would be called Yeon Sang-ho in Korea.

In IMDB, they call him Sang-ho Yeon,

and the only reason that I'm not doing that

is because it's a sensitive issue.

It's a cross-cultural thing.

And so we're gonna give the last name first,

and then the first name after the last name.

All right, did I totally confuse you?

All right, let's look at those "Drive-In" totals.

We have...91 dead bodies.

9,000 undead bodies.

15 full-bore zombie-attack set pieces.

4 motor vehicle crashes.

One runaway train.

One reanimated zombie deer.

Zombies falling out of helicopters.

Zombies climbing all over cars.

Zombies flying through windows.

Zombies bursting out of train cars.

Zombies falling off roofs.

Military zombies with weapons.

Cities on fire.

Baseball bat Fu.

"Drive-In" Academy Award nominations for...

Gong Yoo as the fund manager turned zombie killer;

Kim Su-an as the unbearably cute 10-year-old daughter;

Sohee, as the schoolgirl in love;

Ma Dong-seok as the working-class loudmouth fighter;

Jung Yu-mi as the pregnant woman;

and Yeon Sang-ho, the writer/director,

for doing things the "Drive-In" way

in a country that has only had drive-ins since 1995.

Can you believe that?

Four stars. Joe Bob says, "Check it out."

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And did you notice, by the way,

that our leviathan mother company, AMC,

has announced the end of "Walking Dead"?

You know, speaking of zombies.

Can you believe that?

I mean, they only did -- I don't know -- 978 episodes.

I was just getting into it.

You know, how will we even

get to know the main characters at this point?

[Laughter]

Actually they're not really killing it.

They're doing 24 episodes in the last season,

but those episodes are airing over a two-year period,

and then they're announcing two spin-off series,

which will bring the total number

of "Walking Dead" spin-offs to four.

So, you know, half of the "Last Drive-In" audience

is "Walking Dead" people.

And I don't mean people who watch "The Walking Dead."

I mean people who have been on "The Walking Dead."

They employed every actor in Atlanta

at least nine times each, you know.

That thing is shot in Atlanta.

You know, that thing just eats actors like a zombie virus.

When you apply for any job in television,

the first question they ask is

"How many episodes of 'Walking Dead' have you done?"

If it's less than five, you're an amateur.

[Laughter]

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[Conversing in Korean]

-[Chuckles]

[Cellphone rings]

-[Speaking Korean]

[Thud, tires screech]

[Spits]

[Birds chirping]

[Suspenseful music plays]

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-[Speaking Korean]

[Beep]

[Mouse clicks]

[Sighs]

[Knock on window]

[Conversing in Korean]

[Conversing in Korean]

-[Sighs]

[Conversing in Korean]

-[Sighs]

[Beeping]

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

[Conversing in Korean]

-[Speaking Korean]

[Knocking]

[Switch clicks]

[Conversing in Korean]

[Paper ripping]

-[Sighs]

[Door closes]

[Door closes]

[Applause]

["Aloha 'Oe" plays]

-[Singing in Korean]

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[Woman speaking Korean]

[Children laughing]

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[Applause]

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[Child laughs]

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[Window whirring]

[Horn honking, sirens wailing]

[Wailing continues]

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[Woman on P.A. speaking Korean]

[Conversing in Korean]

[Radio chatter]

-Oh. -[Gasps]

-Oh.

[Speaking Korean]

[Both chuckle]

[Conversing in Korean]

[Young man laughs]

-Oh.

[Conversing in Korean]

[Conversing in Korean]

-[Breathing heavily]

[Man shouting in Korean]

[Indistinct shouting]

[Speaking Korean]

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[Crying]

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[Coughs]

[Conversing in Korean]

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[Knocking]

-[Speaking Korean]

[Knocking]

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[Conversing in Korean]

-[Laughs]

[Door closes]

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[Crash]

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-[Speaking Korean]

[Bang on door]

-[Breathing heavily]

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[Cellphone buzzing]

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[Door opens]

-[Gasps]

-[Clicking tongue]

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[Static hisses]

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[Hissing continues]

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[Cracking]

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[Static hisses]

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-[Gasps]

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-[Hisses]

[Growling]

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[Door opens]

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[Knocking]

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[Lock engages]

-[Whimpering]

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[Passengers gasping]

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-[Growls]

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[Passengers screaming]

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[Passengers screaming]

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-[Hisses]

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[Door closes]

-[Breathing heavily]

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[Door closes]

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[Toilet flushes]

[Drying whirring]

[Woman screaming]

[Rapid footsteps]

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[Woman screaming]

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[Passengers screaming]

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-[Screaming]

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-[Hissing]

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[Cracking]

-[Growls]

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[Hissing]

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[Passengers screaming]

-[Hissing]

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[Pounding on door]

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[Passengers screaming]

[Woman screaming]

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-[Hisses]

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[Pounding on door]

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[Cracking]

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-Obviously we're dealing with a new type of zombie here.

These are fast zombies.

And, yeah, I know -- We saw those before in "World War Z,"

but the zombies were about the only interesting thing

about that "World War Z."

There is no justice in the world

when "World War Z" makes more money than this movie.

One thing you'll notice about these zombies

is that their bodies can contort

into all sorts of different positions,

and that part of the film is not CGI.

They do use CGI, but the weird movements

are the creation of a choreographer named Park Jae-in,

who is herself a gymnast and a dancer,

and she runs a pole dance academy in Seoul.

I didn't know there was such a thing,

but God bless her for that.

And she's done choreography for a lot of movies

and for a lot of pop singers,

but her zombie training for this movie was extensive.

The training to be a featured zombie

required two to three months of work in her studio,

and she trained about 20 to 30 actors at a time.

She had done zombie movement

for one previous movie, "The Wailing,"

but it wasn't anything like the scale of this movie.

The director, Yeon Sang-ho, made an early decision --

He said that there had to be a fundamental difference

between Asian zombies and American zombies,

and he compared it to superhero movies.

He said, "If an American actor appears in spandex, it's fine,

but if a Korean actor does, it looks weird."

And what he meant was that the makeup and costuming decisions

made in the West don't always work in Asia.

And he thought American zombie movies

were too focused on makeup,

so he said, "I'm gonna focus on movement instead of makeup,"

and decided to spend a whole lot of time

choreographing the action.

So what do we know about these zombies?

We know that their origin

is from a biotech factory in a rural area.

That's the whole purpose of showing the deer

that becomes a zombie deer.

A beautiful image, by the way. That's an amazing moment.

We know that the leaders and business people in Korea

know exactly where the zombie outbreak started,

because in the opening scene,

we see the fund manager selling all his stock.

It's because he knows the so-called "small leak"

is not small at all.

He has inside information.

We know that the time between being bitten by a zombie

and turning zombie yourself is just a few minutes.

And we know that they attack in packs.

And the more of them that gather together,

the more rabid they get, so the effect is that victims

get torn apart like a pack of wild dogs.

And we know that they rely on their eyesight.

They have to see you to want you.

They react to movement.

That one scene where the zombies go crazy in the car

that's full of the high-school baseball team,

that's just a foreshadowing of what we're gonna see later.

These were extremely complicated scenes to photograph.

They sometimes required 20 takes for each moment

so that the focus could be adjusted

and the room could --

you know, space could be left in there for the CGI later.

Only a guy with a background in animation

would have the eye and the patience for this,

and that's exactly what Yeon Sang-ho was.

He had made dozens of animated movies.

He made two animated features,

and they weren't the kind of flicks

we associate with animation in the West.

They were adult-themed social dramas.

Very bleak.

His combination of live action with animated action with CGI

is what made the magic of this movie possible.

Okay, let's get back to it.

Zombies outside the train, zombies inside the train.

He's reduced the available safe space

to a single passenger car --

a tiny patch of real estate

that's the only sanctuary in this universe.

Roll the film.

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You know what? I'm not a big fan of pole dancing,

but I'm not surprised that the first pole dancing academy

[Laughs] is in Korea.

The actress who plays the schoolgirl, her name is Sohee.

She was already famous

for being in a K-pop group called Wonder Girls.

And Korea kind of owns the acrobatic erotic dance category.

You know, girl groups and boy groups.

They must teach that stuff in elementary school.

But if you look at the user comments on IMDB,

half of them are just praise for Sohee,

which, come on, guys, kind of a minor supporting character.

And they call her "that cheerleader girl."

It's not a cheerleader outfit.

It's just a school uniform.

But I guess the Wonder Girls were so famous

that guys just fixate on that one character.

Of course, if this was a Jim Wynorski film,

she would be a cheerleader.

There'd be a whole train car full of cheerleaders.

They'd be on a cheerleader outing.

You know, there would be no baseball team.

We would have cheerleaders in every scene.

You know, "Train to Cheerleader Camp."

I'm starting the screenplay tomorrow.

[Laughter]

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[Door opens]

-[Shouting in Korean]

[Indistinct shouting]

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[Door locks]

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[Pounding on door]

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-[Hisses]

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[Pounding on door]

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[Zombies growling]

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[Pounding on door]

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[Zombies growling]

[Growling stops]

-[Speaking Korean]

[Conversing in Korean]

[Passengers gasp]

[Man speaking Korean on P.A.]

[Indistinct conversations]

[Cellphone buzzing]

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[Man screaming in distance]

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-[Breathing heavily]

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[Groaning]

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[Breathes sharply]

[Grunts]

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[Gagging]

[Growling]

[Cellphone beeps]

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[Rumbling]

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[Passengers screaming]

[Window rattling]

[Passengers screaming]

[Pounding on windows]

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[Woman screams]

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[Man speaking in Korean]

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-[Hissing]

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[Helicopter blades whirring]

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[Screaming]

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[Explosion]

-[Chuckles]

[Man speaking Korean on P.A.]

[Door closes]

[Gasps]

[Line ringing]

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-[Sighs]

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You know, running underneath the main story here,

we have an obvious class-warfare subtext,

with our main character, the fund manager,

getting special treatment --

friends in high places who tell him some secret way to get

to a place of safety that no one else knows about,

while the burly, brusque husband of the pregnant woman

instinctively knows that he's a "bloodsucker,"

and even his own daughter,

still untainted by the corruption of society,

knows that just might be true of her father.

So as you'll see, as the story progresses,

the subtitle of this movie could be

"The Education of Seok-woo,"

Seok-woo being the character name

of the fund manager/absent daddy.

That actor is well known to Korean audiences.

His name is Gong Yoo,

and he's been a Korean star for more than a decade,

ever since he had a popular breakout role

in a 2007 TV series where he played a romantic lead.

He actually had two other hit movies in the year 2016.

One of those was "The Age of Shadows,"

which was the official South Korean entry

in the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film.

We're not yet at the stage where Korea

would nominate a zombie film for that distinction.

But here's the interesting thing.

Gong Yoo is a super athlete, known for doing his own stunts.

Rock climber, skydiver.

He studies a particular Russian martial arts system

called Systema,

and his personal trainer for martial arts

happens to be Ma Dong-seok,

the actor who plays the abrasive chubby husband

of the pregnant woman, who hates him in this movie.

Ma Dong-seok emigrated with his family

to America in the year 2000, when he was just 19 years old,

and he became a mixed martial arts trainer for Mark Coleman,

who was one of the very first champions

in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

He also trained another UFC champion, Kevin Randleman.

And both of those guys became pro wrestlers

after they retired from mixed martial arts.

Unfortunately Randleman died early.

He died at the age of just 44.

Anyway, Ma Dong-seok is well known to Korean audiences.

Often plays a heavy, almost always in a supporting role,

but beloved nevertheless.

And as you can see, great chemistry

between Gong Yoo and his former teacher.

Okay, let's get back to the 2016 Korean mega-hit,

"Train to Busan."

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Gong Yoo is a very private guy,

doesn't do any social media at all,

and so there have not been that many interviews with him,

but I saw one where he was asked

whether making the movie was scary at all.

And he said, "Yeah, it was a little scary working

with some of the more athletic zombies,"

but the scariest part of it for him

was thinking that someday he might have a daughter like that,

and it made him totally freaked out

by the responsibility of raising a child.

So good luck with that, Gong Yoo.

Movie stars never have any problem raising children.

As we have all noticed over and over again,

for, like, the past century.

So, yeah, that'll be a piece of cake.

[Laughter]

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[Ominous music plays]

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[Conversing in Korean]

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-[Speaking Korean]

[Zombies growling]

[Conversing in Korean]

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[Footsteps approaching]

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-[Shouting in Korean]

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[Zombies hissing, growling]

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[Crowd screaming]

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-[Shouts in Korean]

[Breathing heavily]

[Cellphone buzzes]

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[Zombies hissing, growling]

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-[Distorted] Su-an!

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[Pounding on glass]

[Zombies growling, hissing]

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[Pounding on windows]

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[Static hissing]

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[Soft growling]

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[Growling continues]

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[Zombies growling]

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[Gasps] [Zombie growling]

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[Man speaking Korean on P.A.]

[Ringtone plays]

-[Crying]

[Line ringing] -[Crying]

[Ringing continues]

[Cellphone beeps]

[Line ringing]

[Cellphone beeps]

[Su-an shouting in Korean]

[Zombies growling]

This may be my favorite part of the movie.

There are so many excellent dramatic sequences

that it's hard to choose just one,

but the combination of writing,

character depth, and zombie effects right here

is hard to match.

With very specific geography.

They're four cars away from their loved ones.

They're gonna have to fight through the zombie zones.

It's a classic situation from the old Westerns,

where you have to cross the wild frontier

to get to the townspeople that are in peril.

And it's three people who do not belong together.

The brusque working-class guy takes charge.

The baseball kid is too young and in love

to know he's facing death.

And it's the star of the movie

who seems the least useful guy right now

as they wrap their hands

and they get ready to party with the undead horde.

I also think the sequence

in the Daejeon train station is incredible --

the way the swarms of zombies force the disembarkers

back up the stairs and the escalators,

and then the military rescuers, they turn zombie,

and they double the attack,

and then the way the last three people we care about

barely make it back onto that moving train.

The station they stop in, by the way, Daejeon,

that's where all the trains from all directions converge

because it's smack-dab in the middle of South Korea

and it's halfway between Seoul and Busan,

which is on the seacoast.

So they use that huge station,

which would normally have dozens of trains moving through it,

but today it's a ghost station

about to be swallowed up by a zombie horde.

There's also a major turning point here

that almost gets lost because of all the action,

and that's when the little girl realizes her dad

has secret information

and that they're going to a place of private safety

without telling the others,

and she says, "This is why Mommy left."

Ooh.

You know, every place in the movie

where there's a choice between self-sacrifice

and self-protection, the dad makes the wrong decision,

and his daughter zings him about it and, you know.

Until now.

Something about that last zinger hit home.

I'm not sure exactly why the director

entitled the film "Train to Busan"

instead of, say, "Train to Daegu,"

which is another major city in the country,

since the train could be going anywhere

and you could have the same plot.

But it could possibly have something to do

with the Busan International Film Festival,

which is the largest film festival in Asia

and which is held every October

and which is the launching pad for many Asian films

that go on to achieve an international following.

I gotta think "Train to Busan" as a title

is bound to gain attention at the Busan Film Festival,

but as it turns out, he didn't have to worry about that,

'cause he was chosen for a special midnight screening

at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year.

So pretty soon the film was being booked

into every country in the world, including India,

where it became the first Korean film

to have a nationwide theatrical release, as well as Hong Kong,

where it became the most successful Asian film

ever released there.

It played art houses and specialty theaters in America

and never seemed to quite break out beyond that.

And I'm not sure why.

You know, maybe because zombies

were reaching their saturation point in this country,

and so when you read the synopsis,

you just have this "been there, done that" reaction to it.

At any rate, it ended up making 100 million bucks

at the box office, which, for a Korean film --

totally unheard of.

All right, great sequence coming up right now

as they fight their way to their wife, daughter, and lover.

The men of Korea fighting through to their women.

And the odds are against them.

Roll it.

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The other reason they might wanna use Busan is that,

in Korea, that's a tourist destination, you know?

A million people a year go there just to eat the fish cakes.

And I don't know what fish cakes are,

but I have to think it's some version of a salmon croquette.

That's the only thing I know that they'd call a fish cake.

Their other Busan specialty is raw sliced mackerel.

You have to go there to eat it 'cause you're supposed to eat it

immediately after it comes out of the water,

so you won't get sick, you know.

Pull it out of the net, eat it.

They don't say this, but I think if your raw sliced mackerel

gets a little too old, like, six hours or so,

you end up with Busan Tummy,

and since raw sliced mackerel

sounds a little dodgy to begin with,

I gotta think that's painful.

Nobody wants mackerel malady, right?

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-Amazing.

Amazing set piece.

I don't even have to comment on it, I don't think.

An action sequence that was full of that much intense emotion.

Character and plot working together seamlessly.

Great piece of writing, perfectly directed.

Yeon Sang-Ho, the director and writer, is a painter.

That's his college major.

And his early career was devoted to animation.

His debut film was called "Megalomania of D,"

an animated film about an artist who goes crazy.

In 2011 he got a lot of international attention

for a film called "King of Pigs,"

an autobiographical film about being bullied in middle school.

He made a film called "The Fake,"

about an outcast who challenges a bogus evangelical preacher

in a small town.

But the market for serious animated films

is painfully small,

and so he eventually decided to move over to live action,

and "Train to Busan" was his first effort.

So I think you can see all the animation influences, though.

He attempts things you wouldn't normally try,

especially when depicting the zombie hordes.

And it turned out to be a good decision.

He followed it up with another live-action movie in 2018,

called "Yeom-lyeok."

I don't think it was ever released in the United States,

but it's being billed as the first

South Korean superhero film.

Of course, every North Korean film is a superhero film

because it's intended to worship the superpowers of Kim Jong-un.

But, anyway, Yeon Sang-ho

did this film about a bank security guard

who gains superpowers one day after drinking water

from a mountain spring that's been zapped by a meteor.

And then he uses psychokinesis to fight the local mafia,

who control a construction company

that's threatening his estranged daughter.

So once again with the estranged daughter theme.

I assume psychokinesis is the same thing as telekinesis,

which means manipulating objects with your mind.

Anyway, I hope it eventually makes it to this country,

but I'm gonna make it a point

to go back and watch all those famous animated dramas, as well.

I should also mention Park Joo-Suk,

his co-writer on "Train to Busan."

He has one other credit.

He wrote a movie called "Hwayi: A Monster Boy."

"Hwayi: A Monster Boy." In 2013.

There's a whole heck of a lot of weird filmmaking

going on in Korea, and that's a good thing.

That's a great thing.

Okay, let's get back to the flick.

This is like zombies on an epic scale.

And Korea does that, you know?

The other thing they do on an epic scale is churches.

Like, in the U.S., we have that Joel Osteen church in Houston --

40,000 members, so we think, man alive,

that is one big humongous church.

But in South Korea, they have a church with 830,000 members.

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One church.

And they're Pentecostals.

They're tongue-talkers.

You know, I don't know about you,

but 830,000 people talking in tongues

in one building at one time --

We're gonna need the director of "Train to Busan"

just to do the animation on that.

Then we're gonna need Michael Bay

to do the special effects on that.

And then we're gonna need

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to do the sound,

because they don't just hear that in heaven --

They hear that in the Andromeda galaxy.

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you have no idea how they achieved it --

a hundred zombies all holding on to each other,

being dragged behind that train.

The sacrifice by the high-school lover

so he can die in his beloved's arms.

The sacrifice by the engineer

trying to save the selfish businessman.

And, by the way, the actor who plays the businessman

is veteran actor Kim Eui-sung,

and the actor who plays the baseball-playing boyfriend

is Choi Woo-sik.

And both are well known in Korea.

So, if this were an American film,

we would be five minutes away from the ending.

The daughter is saved. The pregnant woman is saved.

The dad will now fight the selfish CEO to the death

in a symbolic struggle of good versus evil,

and the three of them will coast slowly to safety.

But this director

wants to go about three levels deeper than that.

He wants to take us to places we never thought we would reach

when we started watching a zombie movie.

I'm gonna let it run to the end now.

The heartbreakingly wonderful conclusion to...

"Train to Busan."

And if you don't cry, you're dead.

You need to be checked for zombiism.

Roll it. [Laughter]

I say this as a guy who rarely tears up over movies, but damn.

You know, it's always said when we have

these Korean-American cross-cultural exchanges

of various types that we need to understand

the cultural differences between the two countries

in order to understand one another.

And not really.

This movie proves we all live in the same place.

I remember when I just got out of college

and friends of mine were joining the Peace Corps,

and I was considering it myself.

We all wanted to go to whichever was considered

the coolest country to live in.

So a lot of people went to Fiji

or one of the African countries or Kabul.

At that time, Afghanistan

was considered exotic and drug-friendly.

And it wasn't considered violent or dangerous at all.

But most of the jobs were in Korea.

Because Korea always had a shortage of English teachers.

Tens of thousands of people wanted to learn English,

and the Peace Corps was trying to make that available.

And the potential Peace Corps people,

most of them, they didn't wanna go to Korea.

It didn't sound exotic. It didn't sound fun.

But today, if you talked to those people who did go to Korea

for a five-year deployment, sometimes more,

they love that country more than they love their own hometown.

And I think we've learned since then

the Koreans are often more American than Americans.

And now, with a zombie movie like this out there,

we oughta start trying to be more Korean than the Koreans.

For one thing, they use CGI a lot better than we do.

For another thing, they're not afraid to do the ending

that you don't really want, but the ending you need.

So watch this.

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-Great ending, great movie.

I rank it up there in the top five we've shown on this show.

Jung Yu-mi is the actress who played the pregnant survivor.

She had co-starred with Gong Yoo once before.

The two of them starred together

in an acclaimed film in 2011 called "Silenced,"

a docudrama based on true events about a deaf school

where the students were sexually and physically assaulted

over a long period of time.

She played a human rights activist,

and Gong Yoo played a teacher,

and they work together to end the abuse.

The little girl in "Train to Busan" was played by Kim Su-an.

She's been in a dozen films since 2011. Great actress.

"Train to Busan" ended up being

the sixth-highest grossing domestic film of all time

in South Korea.

Grossed $100 million worldwide.

One month after it was released, the same director

released an animated prequel called "Seoul Station."

Of course, all the studios started bidding

on the English-language remake rights,

and Gary Dauberman is currently writing the script for that.

He's the guy who wrote "Annabelle"

and the latest version of "It."

Unfortunately, Yeon Sang-ho got talked into doing a sequel

that was originally called "Train to Busan 2,"

but was released last year under the title "Peninsula,"

and it got kind of bad reviews.

It wasn't really related to the original story.

It takes place four years after the zombie devastation

when a soldier returns to Korea

who had been overseas the whole time.

And they went full-scale Michael Bay with it.

It's all effects, no emotion.

This happens a lot when you're not really ready

to write the sequel, but there's enormous financial pressure

on you to write the sequel,

and so you hurry it up, and you make compromises.

Anyway, come on over, Darcy.

Any opinions on "Train to Busan"?

-Well, it's amazing, of course.

But what I really love about it is that it it made you cry.

Whoops. -Yes, it did.

There are a couple of places

where it's pretty damn unbearable.

-Aww. Good for you, tough guy.

[Laughter]

-You know I'm not a tough guy.

You got mailbag? -I do, indeed.

I've got some mailbag and some fan art.

This one is from Drew Lopez of Whittier, California.

He's our friend on social media.

-Okay. -I love him.

-Um...

Does he have a letter or just a bunch of art?

Oh, here we go.

Fan art.

"Dear Darcy and J.B.B." --

He didn't remember my name, but he remembered your name.

[Laughter] "Thank you guys

for all you do each and every episode.

These breaks in between seasons have been agony

as I love watching and drawing along with the Mutant Fam."

Oh, he does the drawings while he's watching the show.

-"Last Draw-In."

-"Can't wait for future episodes and specials.

Take care and stay safe.

The drive-in will never die! Drew Lopez.

Darcy, please feel free

to hold on to the Tom Atkinson portrait."

-I will. -And actually he means

the Tom Atkinsportrait.

[Laughter] Wow. Look.

-Beautiful. -That's a great Tom Atkins.

So there. He's saying hold on to it.

-Treasure it. -Does he mean we can't hold on

to these other two he did?

-This one's for me. -Okay.

-Only. -But...

Oh, look at this one.

Ralphus.

He did Ralphus, from "Bloodsucking Freaks."

That is a great Ralphus.

And then this one here is a montage of images.

I'm not sure -- Who is this? What is this?

-Oh, it's Victor Crowley. See? Felissa.

-Oh, okay. I didn't recognize Kane Hodder, but you're right.

Victor Crowley. So thank you, Drew.

We're trying to gather all the fan art in one place

and possibly put it online. -I'm working on that.

But we also have some fan fiction.

-Fan fiction. Okay.

-This one is from Joshua Chaplinsky

of Queens, New York.

-Okay. All right.

I love it when they type them. Okay.

"To the maniacs over at 'The Last Drive-In.'

Hello, Darcy.

[Laughter]

I'm a recent Joe Bob convert.

I only discovered you guys since the Shudder show,

and I'm really loving what you two do.

I especially like your humorous meta-cosplay outfits."

-Aww. Thank you. -Not just "cosplay."

It's "meta-cosplay."

"Some great stuff there.

I also recently read your post on body shaming."

Yourpost.

"And found it incredibly moving.

The show is at its best when you and Joe Bob are interacting,

and there needs to be more of it.

Anyways, a while back,

I wrote a parody book called 'Kanye West -- Reanimator.'"

[Laughter] There it is.

-You got to show that cover.

-Yeah, "Kanye West -- Reanimator."

"It's basically Lovecraft's 'Herbert West -- Reanimator'

reimagined with Kanye as the titular mad scientist.

I think it's something you'd be into, so I've enclosed a copy.

If Joe Bob is jealous, tell him to get his own!

I figured you're hipper than he is, and it would be --"

-A little bit. -It's like this is yourletter.

"It would more your thing. Aw, what the hell?

I'll include one for Joe Bob, too."

-See? -And he did. Here's yours.

-Thank you. -He included one for me.

"Wouldn't want him to feel left out."

Anyways, have you noticed how the mail -- A lot of the mail

has started coming in as "Dear Darcy"

instead of "Dear Joe Bob." -Mm. I hadn't noticed.

-Yeah, right. You have noticed.

Anyway, "Hope you enjoy. Keep up the great work.

Looking forward to the next season.

Sincerely, Joshua Chaplinsky."

[Laughs]

"'Yeezus' is just the beginning."

Okay, Joshua. [Laughter]

Kanye re-animating hip-hop by reanimating Biggie and Tupac.

Who wouldn't read that? So thank you so much.

I would say we're gonna gather all the fan fiction, as well,

but so far, this is the only entry in fan fiction.

So our second feature tonight is the notorious "Spookies,"

but for now, I'm Joe Bob Briggs, reminding you

that most of the stuff people worry about

ain't never gonna happen anyhow.

And the drive-in will never die.

Guy's walking along the beach, and he finds a bottle,

and he rubs on it to see the label, and a genie pops out.

And the genie says, "Thank you, master.

I shall grant you one wish. So make it carefully."

So the guy thinks for a while, and he says,

"Well, I've always wanted to go to Hawaii,

but I'm scared of flying, and I get horribly seasick,

so I'd like to drive there.

Could you build me a bridge from here to Hawaii?"

And the genie says, "My God, man!

Do you have any idea how much steel

and concrete and materials,

to say nothing of the engineering

and the environmental impact statements?

No. That's too much to ask.

You'll have to make a simpler wish."

The guy says, "Okay, all right," and he thinks for a minute.

And he finally says, "Well,

could you just make me understand women?"

And the genie says, "Okay, four-lane blacktop,

rest stops every 30 miles,

emergency call boxes every 5 miles..."

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