Nightmare Fuel / #Alive (2020)

• The scene where all hell breaks loose. It's pure chaos and perfectly depicts the realism of such a situation. How would you react to such a scene?
  • One horrifying scene is when Joon-woo sees a mother with a meat cleaver, but her daughter approaches her in a calm manner. The two lock into a hug, but why is the daughter so calm in the midst of the cha- oh wait, she was asymptomatic. The daughter mercilessly bites her own mother while Joon-woo watches in pure horror.
• The death of the cop is pretty horrifying. When she's swarmed by a few zombies, she attempts to shoot herself in the head, but one of the infected knocks her gun out of her hand to the ground as if stopping her. Then the group push her along the concrete(sliding her while they crawl) and from her POV, we see, upside down, a horde of zombies hovering at the entrance of the underground parking lot. The fact that Joon-woo tries to distract them so she can escape doesn't help, as they all stare up at him with their dead eyes, then drag her to her death anyway.
  • Seeing the infected cop among the horde staring up at him later does not help.
  • Shortly after, when Joon-woo finds one of the infected has used its strength to push his fridge barricade aside. It does not even move until it sees him, trying to get from behind it at him.
• The eyeless infected is pretty creepy. Given that the infected are not said to have enhanced senses thanks to their transformation, Joon-woo still has to follow it to get close enough to his door to slip inside. When he looks out the peephole, he sees the eyeless right in front of it, with the rest of the dead hovering behind as it tries to open the doorknob(though Joon-woo manages to keep it out).
• The fact that the infected remember how to do things from their past lives set them at odds with some of the other infected in zombie apocalypses. They remember how locks work and give up if they can't open doors and a former firefighter uses his skills at climbing to enter Yoo-bin's apartment when she and Joon-woo attempt to escape.
• The Masked Man. He seems to be another survivor in this, friendly and reasonable, feeding the pair with his supplies. But any kind of goodwill or friendship disappears when he reveals he's not the owner of the apartment he's in(though the inhabitants may have been victims)then he reveals he has his infected wife in another room having drugged the two to feed them to her.
  • Even creepier, he keeps his infected wife leashed up in the nursery of the(most likely dead)infant of the previous family, with the mobile overhead and blood on the walls.
  • When she realizes Yu-bin is in the room with her, after being docile and staring, she crawls right at her screaming.And since this is from Yu-bin's perspective, it's all the more terrifying. And the camera follows the jerky way she crawls from behind too.
  • When the Masked Man thinks Yu-bin is dead, he opens the door and is attacked by his infected wife. As she's feeding on him, he holds her and strokes her hair, talking calmly, saying he knows she "tried her best".

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