4 min. read The zombie genre is a little more fascinating, lately. Again, I’m not the target audience for this category, but I love good fun and spectacle where it is. That’s where I give the kind of due credit Muay Thai Chaiya director Kongkiat Komesiri so earns for his latest feat, Operation Undead. Set during Thailand’s involvement in World War II, the film immerses itself in a millieu of absolute terror that goes beyond the expectant horrors of war. Back room politics and skullduggery are at the center of it all as a Japanese scientist’s prototypical experiment gets unleashed unto a Thai battlefield, endangering nearby villages in the process. The weapon in question, Nobu (Assanai Yungyuen), a Japanese soldier infected with Fumetsu-A44 – a biological weapon that grows contagious with the host’s bite – effectively turning victims into other reanimated hosts. Such is the terror that awaits a squad […]
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