Deep Cuts Horror Hit List #2 “Train To Busan”

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present

Episode: Deep Cuts Horror Hit List #2 “Train To Busan”
Date: October 31, 2025
Hosts: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes

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Episode Overview

In the lead-up to Halloween, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes continue their “Halloween Horror Hit List” with their #2 pick: the South Korean zombie sensation Train to Busan. In this episode, they explore why this film transcends the typical zombie flick, blending high-octane horror with emotional depth and complex characters. The hosts share their personal experiences, discuss the film’s impact, critical reception, and offer viewing tips—all while gushing about how this unique entry in the zombie genre has left them both wiping away tears.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

Why "Train to Busan" Stands Out

• Emotionally Charged Horror:

  • Both hosts stress that this is a zombie movie that guarantees tears, not just scares.
  • T.J.: “I am guaranteeing you will be crying in this movie. I don’t care who you are. There will be tears in your eyes in at least one and possibly two moments in this movie.” (03:54)
  • Amy: “Once again, sobbing. Not just a few tears wiping away. I mean, just powerful, powerful acting, powerful storytelling. All set in a zombie apocalypse.” (04:20)

• Foreign Language Barrier & Subtitles:

  • The film is in Korean with subtitles; Amy notes this may have kept some U.S. viewers away, but stresses how worth it the experience is.
  • Amy: “Now it’s on Netflix…I have been watching this movie for, I feel like almost a decade now since it came out.” (06:02)
  • T.J. jokes about younger generations watching everything with subtitles and how he himself doesn’t like them but forgot about it during this film. (06:47-07:55)
  • Amy: “Once you start watching this film…you forget you’re even reading it.” (07:37)

• Plot & Characters:

  • Synopsis: “A man, his estranged daughter and other passengers become trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak in South Korea.” (05:30)
  • The hosts agree this is “dumbing down” the complexity and emotional layers of the movie.
  • Discussion of Gong Yoo (the lead actor, also recognizable as the recruiter in Squid Game) and the ensemble cast.
  • Amy: “He’s the hedge fund manager who everyone loves to hate in the movie but ends up being a huge part of the heart.” (09:04)
  • There is praise for the nuanced relationships and realistic character arcs.
  • T.J.: “I cared so much about almost everybody I saw.” (11:37)

Critical & Audience Reception

• Critical Acclaim:

  • Rotten Tomatoes: 95% (critics), 89% (audience), with rare agreement between both groups.
  • Amy: "Rotten Tomatoes…among the highest you will find." (09:04)
  • Critics highlighted: “fully realized characters,” “plenty of social commentary,” and “skillfully staged action.” (10:54, 11:37)
  • Amy: Reading critic consensus: “Train to Busan delivers a thrillingly unique and purely entertaining take on the zombie genre…” (10:54)
  • T.J.: “I think sometimes in these apocalyptic movies they want to create…this forced, unnatural bond…not here. This is nuanced and it is real life. It’s not perfect. The relationships aren’t great.” (10:31)

• Noteworthy Critic and Audience Quotes:

  • "This should have been number one." – T.J. (14:36)
  • “The hardest part of horror is to make the audience feel empathy. A good horror story only feels horrifying if you feel it’s being done to someone you care about. And that’s exactly what this movie does.” – Amy reading from a critic (14:44)
  • “By far the most emotional and tear jerking zombie movie I have ever seen.” – Audience review (17:44)
  • "The perfect zombie date drama. If you are not in tears…you need to call your doctor and have your meds checked." – Audience review (17:45)

• Contrarian/Grouchy Reviews

  • The hosts have fun with a negative audience review, noting the reviewer nitpicks minor plot points and misses the film’s emotional core.
  • Amy: “The point is, when you read some of these bad reviews, recognize…they just don’t get it.” (19:29)
  • T.J.: “…our only reaction to things is to be a contrarian or to be outraged. Why?” (20:12)

Emotional Power & Nuance

• The hosts return again and again to just how emotionally affecting the movie is.
  • Amy: “I dare anyone to watch this film and not be moved at the end in ways you couldn’t expect.” (24:33)
  • T.J.: “I am guaranteeing everybody, you will be in tears. I am guaranteeing. Go ahead, take it as a challenge. I don’t give a damn.” (25:51)
  • Special mention of the young actress playing the daughter as a "scene stealer, heart stealer." (27:11)
  • Acknowledgment that the movie doesn’t sugarcoat characters—everyone is flawed, everyone is relatable. (12:09–12:28)

Audience for the Movie

• Amy: “If you love to be invested in who lives, who dies, in the characters, and that’s your jam, this is your movie. Also, if you like action, if you like a thrilling horror movie…if you like intention and purpose…emotion provoking movies, this has all.” (26:03)
• T.J.: "If you're a rom com fan, that's really…the only element it doesn't have." (26:54)
• Clear warning about the level of violence and gore: “It is very violent. You have zombies attacking people and eating people, essentially.” (28:19)

Viewing Tips & Pairings

• Watch on Netflix—subtitles only.
• Amy: “Avoid anything like pizza or stew or anything…you wouldn’t want to eat while you’re…watching this.” (28:26)
• Suggestion: Korean food and beer, or just stick with popcorn.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On The Power of the Film and Subtitles:

  • T.J. Holmes [04:46]: “You’re going to be crying. This movie is subtitled the entire time. It is not in English and the dubbing is not available. Or is it?”
  • Amy Robach [07:37]: “Once you start watching this film…you forget you’re even reading it.”

• Critical Praise:

  • Amy Robach [09:04]: “The Rotten Tomatoes score among the highest you will find. 95%. That’s among the critics. The audience score not far below 89%. This is one where the two really agree with each other.”
  • T.J. Holmes [11:37]: “I cared so much about almost everybody I saw. There’s even a whole thing having to do with a youth baseball team…Oh my God.”

• On Emotional Resonance:

  • T.J. Holmes [15:02]: “I’m trying to think about other movies and that whole premise. It’s happening to somebody you care about…That’s not always there for me in a lot of these movies.”

• Defending the Film from Cynical Reviews:

  • Amy Robach [18:19]: “And then you want to hear the bad audience review that I saw that I had to include because I knew it would evoke an emotion.”
  • T.J. Holmes [19:29]: “I encourage all of you not to be that person. Don’t be that contrarian.”

• Food Pairing Advice:

  • Amy Robach [28:19]: “Avoid anything like pizza or stew or anything that just…You wouldn’t want to eat while you’re…watching this.”

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Recommended Audience & Warnings

• For:

  • Horror fans who crave more than just gore
  • Moviegoers who appreciate character-driven stories and emotional depth
  • Fans of South Korean cinema or open to international films
  • Anyone who loves heart and spectacle

• Not For:

  • Those entirely averse to reading subtitles (though T.J. was won over!)
  • Sensitive viewers—graphic violence and some deeply emotional content may be triggering
  • Die-hard romantic comedy purists

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Where & How to Watch

• Available on Netflix (as of record date, subtitles only)
• Ideal with popcorn, or for an immersive experience, with Korean snacks and beer

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Final Thoughts

Both Amy and T.J. make a passionate case that Train to Busan is perhaps the finest zombie movie ever made—transcending its genre thanks to nuanced storytelling, deep humanity, and a cast (especially the little girl) that resonates long after the credits roll.

T.J. [29:12]: “Maybe out of all the movies we have, this might be my number one recommendation. Even though it’s not number one, if there’s one you have to watch that is going to get everybody–that I don’t think is going to be controversial–like everybody is going to feel this movie.”

Be sure to tune in for their #1 pick—teased as a surprise for being less scary and gore-filled yet still worthy of Halloween night.

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[Amy Robach]

Welcome everyone. It is Thursday, October 30th. And you are listening to Amy and TJ and we are now in the final countdown to Halloween. It is our Halloween horror hit list and we are already at number two. You feeling good about our choices?

[T.J. Holmes]

What do you mean already at? It's been a month already at.

[Amy Robach]

It's flown by.

[T.J. Holmes]

It hasn't flown. This has been a long, hard haul. We have been. You know how to just watch horror movies all day.

[Amy Robach]

It seems like it's what we do every day.

[T.J. Holmes]

It seems like it would put you in a down. In a. In a dark mood. This is uplifting to us. I always say hearing people screaming is like our white noise here in the house.

[Amy Robach]

It is embarrassing sometimes, though, if strangers are around or if someone's calling and they hear someone screaming in the background. For us, it's just a Tuesday.

[T.J. Holmes]

That has absolutely happened on Zoom Calls or something at the house we are in. Oh, my God, what's happening? It sounds like somebody's being murdered in the second room. But no, this is great. And we're at number two. And this. Folks, we will tell you right now, I am guaranteeing you will be crying in this movie. I don't care who you are. There will be tears in your eyes in at least one and possibly two moments in this movie.

[Amy Robach]

I have seen this movie personally. I mean, at least. At least six or seven times. We just rewatched it before we recorded this. And once again, sobbing. Not just a few tears wiping away. I mean, just powerful, powerful acting, powerful storytelling. All set in a zombie apocalypse.

[T.J. Holmes]

And one more thing for you here, folks. How extraordinary this movie is. You're going to be crying. This movie is subtitled the entire time. It is not in English and the dubbing is not available. Or is it?

[Amy Robach]

Well, it might be for some, folks, but it isn't on Netflix. Okay, you have to watch it with the subtitles, folks.

[T.J. Holmes]

This is a special, special movie.

[Amy Robach]

It is our number two on our horror hit list. And it is Train to Busan. And this is one of the greatest horror films ever made.

[T.J. Holmes]

Ever.

[Amy Robach]

Ever. And it was released back in 2016. It's an hour and 58 minutes. So it's on the longer side of our horror movies. It's rated R. It fully, fully gets that rating for a lot of reasons.

[T.J. Holmes]

It deserves it.

[Amy Robach]

Yes, but this synopsis is a man, his estranged daughter and other passengers become trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak in South Korea.

[T.J. Holmes]

That is so simplistic. That is such a dumbing down of how extraordinary this movie is. That is 100% accurate. But there is so much that goes into every relationship, every moment, every scenario and everything going on. That synopsis is accurate, but doesn't do this movie justice.

[Amy Robach]

That's right. And I feel like because of the foreign language aspect of this film, perhaps a lot of folks didn't necessarily jump on this train or watch it. Now that it's on Netflix, I feel like maybe more of you might have seen it. But this has been something I've been screaming from the rooftops. I somehow I watched this movie. I don't know how I heard word about it, but I have been watching this movie for, I feel like almost a decade now since it came out.

[T.J. Holmes]

I didn't realize it was old until you just said it. Yeah, I didn't realize.

[Amy Robach]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this was another one. Before people were so into these types of films. People were like, what? What? What film are you talking about? In fact, I believe that you watched this upon my recommendation and you were.

[T.J. Holmes]

A little reticent because I don't like subtitles. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate subtitles. And I hate it when so many younger folks, now, certainly your daughter's generation, Sabine, not so much. They watch every movie with subtitles on movies in English. They want to read along while the movie's going. I hate that.

[Amy Robach]

I mean, Game of Thrones, it's helpful when you have strong accents, even when someone's speaking English, if it's Scottish or if it's a very cockney accent. I appreciate a subtitle.

[T.J. Holmes]

I hear that. But it doesn't matter what we're watching. It can be as plain English. It could be whatever that. What's that river show on Netflix? Something River. Virgin River.

[Amy Robach]

Virgin River, Virgin River.

[T.J. Holmes]

Is that Netflix? Okay, I don't know why that one came to mind. But I'm saying the most American and American accented of movies, they still turn on subtitles just to read. Why?

[Amy Robach]

Again, I feel like you don't miss anything that way. And if you get used to it, like, the thing is, once you start watching this film. Now I get it, You. You forget you're even reading it, but you're getting reinforced with whatever's been said. You. You don't miss anything.

[T.J. Holmes]

You don't miss anything because the younger generation isn't paying attention.

[Amy Robach]

Correct.

[T.J. Holmes]

They don't have the same. They're not listening for new. Okay, I get it.

[Amy Robach]

Like a text message on top of.

[T.J. Holmes]

Boom, There it is.

[Amy Robach]

The verbal cue so that they're reinforced. Their brain sees it and hears It. And it's better that way because they're probably distracted doing something else.

[T.J. Holmes]

But despite. The point is, despite all that, this movie still plays.

[Amy Robach]

Yes. And so the box office, it did well. 95 million worldwide. I think that's fairly significant for a foreign language film here. But the cast, you won't know the names Gong Yu, but you will know his face. If you love Squid Games, that was your big moment when you had already watched Squid Games. I think maybe perhaps before you saw A Train to Busan.

[T.J. Holmes]

Oh yeah.

[Amy Robach]

And you were like, oh my God, it's the guy from Squid Game.

[T.J. Holmes]

And this is the guy. Of course you all watch Squid Game. He's the recruiter. He's kind of the slick, put together, buttoned up. He's almost sinister because he's so calm in everything he does. But he's kind of the handsome in a suit recruiting people to be in the game. And in this one, he kind of is the same handsome, put together guy. A little colder, but he becomes your favorite.

[Amy Robach]

Yes. He's the hedge fund manager who everyone loves to hate in the movie but ends up being a huge part of the heart. So great of this movie. Oh my God. I could watch this again right now. The director, Yeon Sang Ho, I hope I said that right. But Rotten Tomatoes, I have to say, agrees with us on this one. The Rotten Tomatoes score among the highest you will find. 95%. That's among the critics. The audience score not far below 89%. This is one where the two really agree with each other. And when you have such a rave reviews, it's actually. This is one of the closest this high up where the audience and the critics agree that it is this good of a movie. Why do you love it?

[T.J. Holmes]

We like zombie movies. If you're a Walking Dead fan, those things, you know, the best one I could compare this to is. Is World War Z. If you're a fan of that movie. And again, I get a little turned off sometimes about the big disaster movies where the, the, the emotional, the family dynamic is so central to the story. But this is one that is there. Like there are several family dynamics and relationships that play out. And again, a foreign language film and it delivers. I'm reading the emotion and I still feel everything. This is a special movie.

[Amy Robach]

You know what was cool about like you point that out. I think sometimes in these apocalyptic movies they want to create. It's almost. It almost feels this forced, unnatural bond between people where you're just like, come on, come on, stop it. With the Pollyanna Everything's like, wonderful. We all love each other. So much. Crap.

[T.J. Holmes]

Maybe that's it. It's not done well that often.

[Amy Robach]

This is nuanced and it is real life. It's not perfect. The relationships aren't great. And yet when. When you're forced to actually recognize what's important and what's not, when everything else is going to shit. I do love that in the face of all the messiness of life, it all comes together pretty succinctly. I love that. All right, the critic consensus. Here it is. Train to Busan delivers a thrillingly unique and purely entertaining take on the zombie genre with fully realized characters and plenty of social commentary to underscore the bursts of skill. Skillfully staged action.

[T.J. Holmes]

What was that part? The first part you said throwing any purely entertaining, fully realized characters. Fully realized characters. I don't know how they did it. I didn't realize it was happening. But I cared so much about almost everybody I saw. There's even a whole thing having to do with a. A youth baseball team even. I was caught up in their world and what was happening to them. And. Oh my God. And the one kid that was kind of left behind on the team and he had to see his teammates.

[Amy Robach]

Oh, it was so awesome, this movie.

[T.J. Holmes]

So well done.

[Amy Robach]

And again, in its messiness, it wasn't. You didn't have characters who were good and characters who were bad. You had everyone in between. And I think that's why we all related with the folks on the train. Because there was something in all of them, in all of us.

[T.J. Holmes]

Yes, there was something bad, the ugly, imperfect in everybody. But then the same thing, the thing they're. The thing they had in common ends up being the thing that brings them all together and makes this work as a human story. I. Some of the stuff we're talking about now, I didn't kind of piece and put together until I'm talking it out with you. But this is. Now that I'm thinking about it more and more. This. I don't know what awards it won and how that went. This is a special movie. And South Korean horror. If you get a chance to check out any Korean horror movies, they know what they're doing over there.

[Amy Robach]

They really do. It's so good. Even one of our aforementioned movies on the list, Cabin in the woods, makes a nod to Asian horror. Oh, yeah, they actually make a joke about how they're usually so good at it. And they actually showed some scenes of Asian horror in the Cabin in the woods, which is actually so funny because it does. It does almost pay homage to Asian horror in that movie. It was a funny moment. Anyway, I digress. Here are some of the critic reviews that sum up what we completely concur with. Train to Busan is arguably the best zombie apocalypse movie of all time.

[T.J. Holmes]

Yes, that is a true statement the.

[Amy Robach]

Sub genre finds in Yang Sang Ho. That is the director's mind. Mind blowing flick. The masterpiece it deserves. I can't find a single flaw. It left me emotionally drained. This is from a critic.

[T.J. Holmes]

It. The emotional part of it is unexpected because the. I think it's. If you told Take out the zombie stuff and if I was just watching this movie from some of the emotional and the relationship standpoint, I wouldn't have liked it. Because I don't go for a movie like that. I don't want to see not your jam. I don't want to see drama and family drama and Play on Pain and I don't want to see that ever that would have been turned off. You put this in the middle of a zombie apocalypse and it makes that story about the family relevant in a different way. It makes it relatable, even in a different way. Oh, I can't say it enough. This should have been number one.

[Amy Robach]

I know now.

[T.J. Holmes]

Sorry.

[Amy Robach]

No, no. Actually it's so funny. I was about to say when I start reading the rest of the critic reviews, we're going to maybe regret our.

[T.J. Holmes]

Oh no.

[Amy Robach]

Our ranking. All right. Here's the next one. To your point. I would say the hardest part of horror is to make the audience feel empathy. A good horror story only feels horrifying if you feel it's being done to someone you care about. And that's exactly what this movie does.

[T.J. Holmes]

Well, I'm trying to think about other movies and that whole premise. It's happening to somebody you care about. Know what? That's not always there for me in a lot of these movies.

[Amy Robach]

Sometimes it's just fun.

[T.J. Holmes]

Yeah.

[Amy Robach]

And you don't want to care about the person because then it wouldn't be fun.

[T.J. Holmes]

And there is. I'm thinking about to all of the people in this movie, there's only one guy we probably didn't care about. They even made a very good. He was over the top. Despicable.

[Amy Robach]

But that actually elicited emotions that actually carried the film.

[T.J. Holmes]

But that emotion at the time was useful in the movie because we didn't have anywhere to direct it. We didn't actually have an enemy in the movie. Even the zombies. We can't be mad at. This just happened to these People, there was only one guy, I would say, as an antagonist in a zombie movie. Right?

[Amy Robach]

That is so true. Wow. All right, here's another one. One of the most compelling, exciting and captivating action horror hybrids in years. It grabs the heart and as well as the soul, speeding to a satisfying emotional climax.

[T.J. Holmes]

Agreed.

[Amy Robach]

It's all good. Here is I found a bad one among the critics. You know what I was laughing at? When you have a movie that is this well reviewed and is this beloved, Honestly, I think anyone who watches this film who I have spoken to doesn't just say I liked it or it was good. They actually have an emotional connection to loving this movie. So I always think it's funny when you've got a critic who says something nonchalant or bad about something.

[T.J. Holmes]

Don't annoy me with this. Come on, Alan.

[Amy Robach]

They had no idea that everyone else loved it. And their comment stands in the sea of a completely different climate.

[T.J. Holmes]

There we go.

[Amy Robach]

No matter what angle you're looking at this from, we've seen it before. What?

[T.J. Holmes]

This is fine. Fine.

[Amy Robach]

That is hilarious to me. And I wonder if that guy now or that gal, I don't know who wrote it, but now says maybe, maybe I was being a little too cynical.

[T.J. Holmes]

We've seen that. Again, those things are just dismissive. Yes, it's a zombie movie. Have we seen one before? Yes. Have we seen a family central to it? Yes. Have we seen bad people behave in them yet? We've seen all of it done before. We've never seen it done like this. And I know that I've seen a bunch of movies, a lot of horror movies, a lot of zombie movies. You haven't seen it done like this before.

[Amy Robach]

Wow. We have been talking about Train du Busan for quite some time. We've got a few audience reviews because I also just felt so validated by all of this. By far the most emotional and tear jerking zombie movie I have ever seen. And easily one of the best zombie movies ever made.

[T.J. Holmes]

Ever.

[Amy Robach]

Period.

[T.J. Holmes]

Ever.

[Amy Robach]

All right. The perfect zombie date drama. If you are not in tears or at least choked up by the end, you need to call your doctor and have your meds checked.

[T.J. Holmes]

Yes.

[Amy Robach]

And here's another one. An incredible film. From start to finish, this is filmmaking at its finest. Combining genres seamlessly while creating a heartfelt, character driven, socially intricate fable amidst a zombie breakout. Knockout performances from the entire cast as well, especially the little girl. It really doesn't get better than this.

[T.J. Holmes]

And this is a two hour movie that doesn't feel like it.

[Amy Robach]

It's so true. All right, you want. You want to hear. And then you want to hear the bad audience review that I saw that I had to include because I knew it would evoke an emotion. This film is an absolute joke. It makes no sense whatsoever. First of all, why did they cast a woman who is clearly in her 30s to play a grandmother? You did point that out.

[T.J. Holmes]

And she's not even central to the movie. This is the problem you have. Okay?

[Amy Robach]

And why on earth would this grandmother open a door to a bunch of zombies? He's upset about a moment in the.

[T.J. Holmes]

Movie that's not even the biggest. She's not even a central character.

[Amy Robach]

Right. He said, then there's this guy at the end who decides to put his hand in the mouth of a zombie. Real cinematic brilliance there. Because as everyone knows, the best way to fight a biting zombie is literally to offer up your own body part. Genius. I'm sorry. That part of the film is one of the most emotional, amazing, and critical incredible parts of the movie. And the fact that I'm just. The point is, when you read some of these bad reviews, recognize that I'm sorry, they just don't get it.

[T.J. Holmes]

And I encourage all of you not to be that person. Don't be that contrarian. This person. What is your problem? Like that. That something is going on with that person. I'm serious. That is not being critical of a movie and the creative licenses. You are just being a contrarian and trying to find a reason to pick and to find something negative. Yes. What do they say? And if you want to find something positive, you can. If you want to find something negative, you can do that, too. That I hate. Look, this is not even about the movie. Now I've gone off on something else. Why be that person? Be critical. It wasn't for me. I didn't like the choice they made doing here. Being sarcastic. Maybe they're trying to be funny and sarcastic. I'm taking it too seriously. But too often we see this attitude where our only reaction to things is to be a contrarian or to be outraged.

[Amy Robach]

Why? Exactly? I mean, that person must have had a bad day because this movie is.

[T.J. Holmes]

Amazing or having a bad life or whatever, but projecting onto a film, whatever's going on with you, and you don't sound legit. You're disqualified from the conversation by what you just added.

[Amy Robach]

I think the interesting thing about that is it does offer a glimpse into other negative comments about any subject you want to talk about in life. And it's just a reminder that not to Take comments so seriously. All right, when we come back, we're gonna reiterate why this movie made our list. Who it's for, who it's not for, food, drink pairing and where to watch it.

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Ed Helms here and hi, I'm Cal Penn and we're the hosts of irsay, the Audible and I Heart Audiobook club.

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This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[Amy Robach]

You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy. You got a little Colin Firth.

[Ed Helms]

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[Amy Robach]

Continuing our conversation about our number two on our horror hit list, we are talking about Train to Busan and why it made our list. I mean, this is a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat, just with the action and the horror and the who's going to die next, who's going to live, that kind of thing. But my God, the heart. I, I dare anyone to watch this film and not be moved at the end in ways that you couldn't expect.

[T.J. Holmes]

No, you get caught up and get emotional. And sometimes in a lot of horror movies, this is. This one's different. And again, I, I am saying to you, I guarantee you will be in tears at the end of this. I don't care who you are.

[Amy Robach]

Yeah. And that's not. And that's not even something you expect. When I first watched this movie, I had no idea. And did I fully explain to you when you watched it, what you were going to feel? Maybe I wasn't sure how you were going to take it because of the whole subtitles thing.

[T.J. Holmes]

Oh, yeah, I wasn't. That's just me.

[Amy Robach]

You had no expectations?

[T.J. Holmes]

That's just me. Yeah. I expected not to like it because I don't like reading subtitles.

[Amy Robach]

And at the end, you were wiping tears.

[T.J. Holmes]

Oh, yeah. This is. I'm guaranteeing everybody, you will be in tears. I am guaranteeing. Go ahead, take it as a challenge. I don't give a damn. You will be in tears. You don't have to come back and what you're going to write in say, no, I wasn't in tears. Yes, you were. You're going to be lying.

[Amy Robach]

All right, so who this movie is for, I think if you are somebody who knows you love to be invested. If you love to watch a movie and be invested in who lives, who dies in the characters, and that's your Jam, this is your movie. Also, if you like action, if you like a thrilling horror movie where you are literally on a ride with the characters, this is a movie for you. It's action packed, it's heartfelt, there are real scares and thrills in it and it gets you talking and thinking about your own life. I mean this really. I feel like this runs the gamut from horror movie fans to folks who love movies with intention and purpose and thought provoking, even emotion provoking movies. This has all rom com.

[T.J. Holmes]

This is the only person it's not for. If you're a rom com fan, that's really. That's the only element it doesn't have in there. It has mystery, action, excitement, drama, all these things. But yeah, it's just. There's a. I'm trying to think of even a comedic moment. I think there might have been one or here randomly. But no, it was, this was, this was intense.

[Amy Robach]

And that little girl, I don't think we've spoken enough about how much of a scene stealer, heart stealer she is. She reminded me of Sabine from the moment I watched this movie. I. Sabine was a little three year old girl when this movie was out. And the lead little girl, what is she in this movie?

[T.J. Holmes]

Six, six, seven times? Yeah.

[Amy Robach]

There's a facial expression she makes throughout that reminded me of Sabine from the moment I watched this. And we should watch it with her when it's appropriate because I wonder if she could see herself in this movie. There's a quiet strength and sweetness about her that reminds me of Sibyl.

[T.J. Holmes]

She's the best actor in the movie.

[Amy Robach]

Without a doubt.

[T.J. Holmes]

She's the best actor in this little girl.

[Amy Robach]

It's remarkable what she's able to pull off. So in the. Who's it not for? It's funny because I had written if you don't like to read subtitles or foreign films, but that doesn't actually apply because you were in that category and I think it's still for you. I think this is for everybody. And if you're going to be cynical or want to be a contrarian, maybe not for you, but other than that, this movie is for you.

[T.J. Holmes]

The horror is extreme though. You need to be aware though that there's. It is very violent. You have zombies attacking people and eating people, essentially. So it is violent.

[Amy Robach]

Correct. And in the food drink pairing, I would say avoid anything like pizza or stew or anything that just. You wouldn't want to eat while you're meat while you're watching this. But I would, I was gonna say go with the South Korea thing. You could go for some bulgogi or some chicken and fries, some beer. Korean. South Koreans love their beer. So all of that would be fun. So that would be one idea to pair it with. But honestly, this is just a fun popcorn, intensity, full intensity kind of a movie. You can just whatever action movie food pairing you'd put it with. This is the movie for you. And you can watch this on Netflix. So yes, just be prepared for subtitles. No dubbing on Netflix right now. But it's easy to watch and man, I don't think you'll regret it for one second.

[T.J. Holmes]

No, you have to watch this movie. Maybe out of all the movies we have, this might be my number one recommendation. Even though it's not number one, if there's one you have to watch that is going to get everybody that I don't think is going to be controversial, like everybody is going to feel this movie.

[Amy Robach]

Yes, agreed. All right, so speaking of number one. Yes, that is our next episode. Halloween is tomorrow. How would you tease this movie, babe?

[T.J. Holmes]

Shockingly, the one we recommend on Halloween is probably the one with the fewest jumps, scares and gore and it happens to be rated PG 13. Wow.

[Amy Robach]

How's that for a tease? And we still assure you this is given a lot of thought and a lot of time, our number one movie in our Halloween horror hit list. And with that, everyone, I'm Amy Robach alongside T.J. holmes. We will talk to you soon. Weight loss doesn't have to be complicated. Gimme.care gives you access to physician prescribed GLP1 treatments for just $130 per month. One flat price at all doses.

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[Kal Penn]

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