He eventually encounters other survivors-most notably a makeshift family he forms with Selena (Naomie Harris), and father/daughter Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and Hannah (Megan Burns)-leading 28 Days Later to highlight humanity over catastrophe. As Jim walks through an abandoned city, he repeatedly yells “HELLO!” and is answered by nothing but echoes. While the film is often loud, frightening and characterized by Danny Boyle’s divisive visual style, there’s a quiet juxtaposition throughout the story that examines how we cope with unprecedented circumstances, both on our own and in the company of others. Seen through the eyes of Jim (Cillian Murphy), a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to a deserted London, 28 Days Later gives us a city that’s empty and lifeless, sans the blood-thirsty souls affected by the rage virus. While it may not be as on-the-nose as films like Outbreak or Contagion-both of which have been topics of discussion when drawing parallels between virus-based narratives and our current reality-Boyle’s film is arguably more terrifying in how it showcases the aftermath of these events. In a current climate where the new strain of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has rapidly spread throughout the world since the beginning of 2020, 28 Days Later is a horrifically relevant viewing experience. The zombie-like contagion comes to fruition almost instantly after being transmitted, causing the afflicted to immediately unleash violence upon anyone around them, further spreading the disease through bites, scratches and transferring blood through various orifices. Other contaminated chimps violently thrash in their containments, until they’re released by a group of ignorant animal liberation activists who unleash the highly contagious “rage virus” upon Great Britain. The film begins with a chimpanzee tied to a table, forced to watch multiple screen showcasing violence and war from across the world as if it were Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange. That’s the message immediately penetrated to the viewer in Danny Boyle’s 2002 post-apocalyptic horror feature, 28 Days Later. Book Two, Flotilla of the Dead, will be available next month.It all began with us. If you are interested in making the comparison, the full first book is available now at. Personally, I think my story line is better, but I am more than a little biased. The plot is much different (a ship full of survivors watching the zombie apocalypse on TV, then going ashore to save friends and loved ones, and accepting a mission from the CDC that might find a cure), but the "zombies" are quite similar. Reviews of my first book have compared it to "Cell", "Dies the Fire", "Aliens", "Dawn of the Dead" and "Battlestar Galactica meets the Walking Dead" but nobody has made the connection to the "28" films yet. They are "infected" with bio-terror-weapon that turns them into crazed/mindless cannibals that spread the contagion with their teeth. For example, in Voyage of the Dead - Introductory First Look I never state that the "zombies" are reanimated bodies of the dead. I find the "fast movers" much more terrifying than the lumbering corpses of traditional zombie stories. They actually had at least some influence on the books I am writing now. It is noisy enough and there are good fleeting moments here and there, like when the infected break in/out, but I hated the basic storyline, and the characters were cliched like those in the second half of the original.Ģ8 DAYS LATER is one of my favorite films of its decade, while 28 WEEKS LATER is an overblown bore. But the filmmaking is so good I get around that.Ģ8 WEEKS LATER is a perfect example of what happens when moviemakers get the idea that bigger = better. eeeeevil military morons" cliched horror actioner. I give this one an A overall, but I've never really gotten over my disappointment over the way the movie changes from "a few survivors fleeing the infected" horror survival tale into a "good regular folks vs. The opening scene, with the harsh digital photography of the animal testing lab and the moody score, really got me. I went in to 28 DAYS LATER only knowing the rough idea behind it and that it was written by someone who wasn't a genre screenwriter but a novelist whose work I'd thought was OK. Hello to you and everyone else, I just joined the group. I just watched 28 Weeks again, and still stand by my thoughts about 28 Days being a much better f." Alexis wrote: "I have heard a few people talk about how they preferred 28 Weeks later as opposed to 28 Days Later.
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