![]() ![]() 28 days later, the infected (who are still essentially living people) begin to starve and die out. Jim, Selena and Hannah escape the now overrun compound and find shelter in an abandoned house. In one particularly gruesome scene, Jim confronts the man who intended to shoot him and jams his thumbs deep inside the man's eye sockets, killing him. Later, Jim returns and opens the compound up to the infected. Selena gives Hannah a Valium so she won't be too scarred by whatever happens. Selena and Hannah are assaulted and forced to wear dresses. After a fight, Jim is taken out to be shot but escapes and climbs over the protective wall surrounding the compound. Eventually it becomes clear that the soldiers simply put out the broadcast to find women and more alarming, they kill any men that come along with whatever women show up. Jim, Selena and the now fatherless Hannah are taken in by the soldiers. Frank becomes infected when a crow drops infected blood into his eye, he turns and is shot by a soldier. Eventually the group makes it out and to the gates of what seems to be an abandoned military post. The film is the first to feature running zombies, which makes for a riveting and intense scene when the group gets a flat tire in a tunnel and hundreds of the infected sprint toward them like rabid dogs. The group decides to hit the road after hearing a radio broadcast from a group of soldiers claiming they have shelter and a cure for what has ravaged the entire world. Together they find Frank and his daughter Hannah, hold up in their apartment complex. She is hardened by the pasts months devastation. Confused and scared, Jim finds Selena, another survivor. The rage virus creates a ravenous, zombie like state driving people mad and driving them essentially to tear people apart. In all, 28 Weeks Later improves upon 'Days' scares, story, characters, and plot to make for one exciting entry in the horror/sci-fi/drama genre.28 Days later is a film directed by acclaimed director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionare) which stars Cillian Murphy (Batman Beginds, The Dark Knight Series) as Jim, a paper courier who wakes from a coma to discover his home city of England is abandoned. And when you can't see where the terror is coming from in a horror film than you're in for something special. With a horror film, you expect there to be an ample amount of deaths, but the way in which Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directs the deaths is terrifyingly unexpected. Yeah, I'm looking at you every other horror film, it's cool to make them run.īut perhaps the biggest compliment I can give to the film is its utterly unpredictable. Adding to that experience are running zombies. That could lead to pacing and character issues, but with a non-stop action-horror, it actually works to the benefit of the experience. That partly because it's only 100 minutes long, but mostly because the film never takes a breath. ![]() ![]() All of which, do a wonderful job in roles that aren't necessarily flushed out. Not only do you have some nice lead turns from Robert Carlyle and Catherine McCormack, but you have Idris Elba, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, and Imogen Poots before they became famous. I also found the cast to be quite impressive. So, in that way I like what the film tried to do. Usually we either see everything as the apocalypse is going down, or maybe several years later. Implausible probably, but we've never really seen an apocalyptic series that attempts to go back and restart civilization from the same area. Of course, apparently it was a good idea for the military to reoccupy London and start building up a civilization again, even though it was the center of disaster only a half a year earlier. ![]() 28 Weeks Later picks up after London is deemed safe and virus free, as the undead have starved to death after the events of the previous film. Similar to how the Cloverfield films are related but not directly tied in, 28 Days Later is a prequel of sorts, but the characters and plot are entirely different. There's something so glorious about seeing the streets of London be a wasteland that only occupies a select few living and undead. But there's something about the '28' series that really hits well for me. The 21st century has been flooded with films and TV shows about zombie apocalypses, so it's difficult for any of them to stand out and feel completely fresh. ![]()
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