Review | My Daughter Is a Zombie movie review: hit Korean family comedy displays few signs of life
Starring Jo Jung-suk, Lee Jung-eun and Choi Yoo-ri, My Daughter Is a Zombie is South Korea’s most successful domestic release of 2025
2/5 stars
Zombies have become so ubiquitous in recent years that their infectious reach extends well beyond the realm of horror cinema. Pil Gam-sung’s hit comedy My Daughter Is a Zombie is a prime example of this phenomenon.
Adapted from a bestselling webtoon, the film chronicles the efforts of a single father (Jo Jung-suk) to protect his daughter (Choi Yoo-ri) from extermination after she succumbs to a zombie virus.
Rather than a horror movie, the film lurches wildly from broad comedy to cloying melodrama through a combination of larger-than-life characters and homespun family values.
This crowd-pleasing combination has seen My Daughter Is a Zombie connect with an audience who might otherwise have avoided contact with the walking dead, and it currently stands as South Korea’s most successful domestic release of 2025.
Jung-hwan (Jo) is a hard-working animal trainer at Seoul Zoo whose life is turned upside down when the city becomes consumed by a virulent zombie virus and his teenage daughter Soo-ah (Choi) is infected.