If you’ve seen a video circulating on social media of a zombie outbreak on a train in China, don’t worry. It's not real, and the concept is from a movie.
One clue that something was amiss in the posts is that the train station’s signs are in Indonesian — one word that’s visible, instruksi, is Indonesian for instructions. The words"dorong untuk membona pintu" are Indonesian for"push to open the door."written in Malay, a language spoken in Indonesia and other countries. The same red-shirted zombie from the Instagram video can be seen in a photograph atop the article.
If zombies on a train sounds like a good movie plot, that’s because it already was — the popular 2016 South Korean horror movie"The Indonesian article describes an event called"Train to Apocalypse" that was held at a light rail station in Kelapa Gading, Jakarta, and was based on"Train to Busan." The event was designed to lure young commuters to the city’s public transit, the article said.
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