It’s usually a serene two-and-a-half-hour ride on Japan’s famously efficient bullet train. But the journey quickly descended into a zombie apocalypse, with passengers screaming in terror. Organisers of Saturday’s adrenaline-filled trip, less than two weeks before Halloween, touted it as the “world’s first haunted house experience on a running shinkansen”. People dressed as zombies perform inside a “Zombie Shinkansen” bullet train bound for Osaka from Tokyo, inspired by the South Korean movie ‘Train to Busan’, ahead of the Halloween season, in Tokyo, Japan.(REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) On board one chartered car of the shinkansen — the Japanese word for bullet train — were around 40 thrill-seekers, ready to brave an encounter with the living dead between Tokyo and the western metropolis of Osaka. The eerie experience was inspired by the hit 2016 South Korean action-horror movie “Train to Busan”, in which a father and daughter trapped on a moving train battle zombies hungry for human flesh. All seemed normal at first as the bullet train made a peaceful departure Saturday evening, but it wasn’t long until the …