GLOBAL RELEASE—Taking Korea’s success and notoriety in tackling and reinventing the zombie apocalypse subgenre, Netflix finally releases all twelve episodes of All of Us are Dead today on the streaming platform.
All of us are Dead is a live-action adaptation of a 2009 top-ranked webtoon series of the same title, following a group of high school students who went to great lengths for survival amidst a viral outbreak that transformed the fictional city of Hyosan into a zombie wasteland, set in a post-COVID-19 world.
The harrowing tale of a city’s collapse, finding its ground zero in the secondary school of Hyosan High School features a band of fresh, young faces in the South Korean entertainment scene led by Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun, Lomon, Yoo In-soo, Lee You-Mi, Lim Jae-hyeok.
Character posters courtesy of Netflix
Directors Lee JQ (Beethoven Virus, Intimate Strangers) and Kim Nam-su take the steering wheel in collaboration with writer Chun Sung-il adapting the series from Joo Dong-geun’s widely-received webtoon series under the production of Film Monster by JTBC Studios.
Update as of January 31: Within a day of its release, All of Us Are Dead has clinched the top spot of the most watched series on Netflix in over 25 countries globally, hailing itself in the same ranks as some of the most watched Korean-made content to rise to the global charts including Arcane, Hellbound, and of course, Squid Game.
Director Lee JQ in a translated statement said of this success, “I truly can’t believe all the love it has received from so many countries around the world, I’m so thankful. I think this will come as a great relief to all the actors and staff who devoted themselves to this project for two years.”
Catch the full trailer of the series here: