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When “Night of the Living Dead” arrived in theaters in 1968, it not only revolutionized the genre as a whole but also set in motion a series of changes to the zombie subgenre, by changing the misconception of the creatures overnight. What had, until that point, been a genre dominated by the concept of the zombie as a brainless, emotionless slave under the control of a malevolent individual to do their evil bidding, the new presentation of zombies as flesh-eating ghouls ready to rip apart others became one of the more prominent takeaways from the movie into the new series of films inspired from “Night of the Living Dead.” One of the first titles to take influence from “Night,” the Spanish film “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue,” serves as such direct inspiration for South Korea’s first zombie film in Kang Beom-gu’s “Strange Dead Bodies”.

Upon arriving in South Korea from studying abroad,...