The teaser trailer for Train to Busan 3: Redemption (2024) opens with a haunting shot of a desolate train station. The once bustling platforms are now eerily empty, overgrown with vines and abandoned luggage scattered across the ground. A lone figure walks through the ruins, his footsteps echoing in the silence. The camera reveals this figure to be a grizzled, battle-worn man (played by Gang Dong-won), one of the few survivors from the previous film, Peninsula. His voiceover sets the tone: “We thought the worst was over. But the dead… they never stop coming.”
The screen cuts to a chaotic flashback—masses of zombies flooding the streets of South Korea, survivors fighting desperately to escape. We see quick shots of soldiers, civilians, and entire cities falling under the relentless attack of the undead. The familiar fast-paced and terrifying zombie horde is back, more aggressive than ever.
As the trailer continues, it becomes clear that the story centers around a new mission: a rumored “safe zone” far outside the infected regions, a place where the virus has never reached. The government, now fragmented, has been working in secret to restore parts of the train system, hoping to transport a group of survivors to this elusive sanctuary. But the journey will be dangerous—crossing the infected zones by rail, with zombies lurking at every turn.
We are introduced to a new group of survivors who will join the mission, including a hardened ex-soldier (played by Lee Jung-jae) and a mother (played by Han Hyo-joo), desperate to save her young daughter. Tension mounts as the group boards a refurbished, heavily fortified train, and the familiar claustrophobia of the series returns. The trailer shows brief, intense glimpses of zombies swarming the train, smashing through windows, and attacking from every direction.
The stakes rise as the survivors realize that not everyone on the train is trustworthy. A dangerous new faction emerges—rogue human groups who have turned savage in the face of the apocalypse, willing to sacrifice anyone to survive. The group must fight not only the undead but also the living, in order to reach their final destination.
In a chilling final scene, the train speeds through a devastated city, surrounded by chaos. Just as the survivors think they’ve escaped, the camera pans to a massive blockade of zombies ahead on the tracks. The voiceover from the ex-soldier whispers, “There’s no way out…”
The trailer ends with a tense shot of the train barreling toward the horde as the screen cuts to black. The title Train to Busan 3: Redemption flashes on the screen, followed by the tagline: “The journey isn’t over.”
This teaser promises a return to the heart-pounding tension and emotional depth of the first Train to Busan, with a fresh storyline of survival, betrayal, and hope.