What a viewNetflix monster K-drama Sweet Home sees Song Kang fighting to survive in a series with unavoidable pandemic comparisons
- Blood-splattering action lights up Sweet Home, which stars Song Kang as a depressive student who has just made an ill-timed move to a monster-ridden building
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It’s such frightfully bad news for property prices whenever zombies move into the area: there goes the neighbourhood, and all that.
Not that the gore-guzzling monsters in the ironically titled horror drama Sweet Home (Netflix, series one now streaming) are your average undead.
The monsters are certain to be even less well mannered in season two, soon to be released. “Maybe the world is finally coming to an end,” suggests one resident, in a nod to the current challenges facing the planet.
Blood-splattering action lights up the first season, to the extent of recreating an Alien-style chase through a claustrophobic ventilation system wherein a modern-day Ripley – Seo Yi-kyung, played by former boxer Lee Si-young – seems sure to be the next meal for a rabid mouth on tentacles.