What if that happened to your school? - One of the reasons why All of Us Are Dead feels especially twisted is that it happens at a high school, and high schools are supposed to be one of the safest and trustworthy places. To increase the irony behind the nerve-wracking overturn of the daily background, the director created an enormous set of four stories that visualizes an actual size school. This set contains everything from a music room, cafeteria, library, and hall. This is where the usually docile students fight against their infected teachers and kill some of their classmates to survive. The cafeteria fight scene did involve a slight touch of CG, but was mostly acted out by 200 real-life actors. Talk about being realistic!
New faces that make the story more realistic - The seven major teenage actors in All of Us Are Dead are all up-and-coming stars – Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun, Lomon, and Yoo In-soo. Director Lee JQ talked about his intentions in an interview that he wanted the audience to lean more towards the essence of the characters, as if they are experiencing the apocalypse themselves. This was well-accomplished! Park Ji-hu who plays the favorable girl-next-door character Nam On-jo, grabs the viewer’s heart and makes you support her growth and survival. Whereas Yoo In-soo plays the role of the frustrated and selfish teenager Yoon Gwi-nam – who becomes a bigger threat than the zombies – makes you wish he would leave everyone alone. So brace yourselves and get your heart ready to handle the shock of one of your beloved characters either turning into a zombie or against each other.
“Make It More Grotesque” - One thing the original webtoon artist asked the director when adapting the IP to a series was to “Make It More Grotesque”. So if you are here for all the cracking of the bones, gushing blood streams and protruded eyeballs, then you came to the right place, because behold, there’s much more than that to come at you.