My Daughter is a Zombie Records:Korean cinema just flipped the script with My Daughter is a Zombie. This goofy little zombie dramedy dropped on July 30, 2025, and basically took a baseball bat to opening day records snagging a wild 430,000 butts-in-seats right out the gate. That’s more than Mission: Impossible ever managed, and you know they had dudes hanging off airplanes. Add in the rest of the movie crowd that day and you’re looking at 860,000 folks cramming into theaters.
About My Daughter is a Zombie
The movie’s based on a Naver webtoon by Lee Yoon-chan, and honestly, it’s not your average brain-muncher flick. Instead of the usual, you get Lee Jung-hwan (played by the always-watchable Jo Jung-suk) he’s just a regular dad and animal trainer until his daughter Soo-ah (Choi Yu-ri) wakes up a zombie one morning. Absolute chaos, but like, the funny kind. The story’s less about surviving the apocalypse and more about a dad doing whatever it takes to keep his weird new zombie kid safe and under wraps. It’s sweet, it’s weirdly hilarious, and it hits you right in the feels. Apparently, everyone from teenagers to grumpy uncles are loving it.
My Daughter is a Zombie Records
Numbers don’t lie this movie’s a straight-up juggernaut. Before it even dropped, it smashed the 2025 advance ticket sales record with 363,749 tickets sold. Then it just bulldozed past Korean hits like Extreme Job and even Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning’s opening numbers. People are crediting the win to that magic mix: funny, heartfelt, and yeah, parents everywhere are probably texting their kids after watching it.
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Cast
Jo Jung-suk is out here making everyone cry and laugh in the same ten seconds. His dad vibes are almost TOO real. And Choi Yu-ri as his zombie kid? She somehow manages to be both adorable and kinda well, dead. The chemistry between them is what really makes this thing soar. Critics and regular folks both are gushing about it, and honestly, it’s deserved.
Beyond just cashing in at the box office, My Daughter is a Zombie is shaking things up. It’s proof that people are hungry for stories that break out of the boring old genre boxes. Folks are chatting about parenting, what it means to hide who you are, and all that good existential stuff, but with zombies. Now there’s talk about sequels, spin-offs, maybe even a web series. The zombie universe just got a lot weirder and a lot more interesting.
