A really neat aspect of 28 Days Later is that the monster clips were played at a 1.25 speed compared to the recording, giving them that frantic and terrifying movement. In the 3rd act, they did the same trick to many of Jims clips, making him appear very zombie like
This method was also used by Korean Zombie Series: All Of Us Are Dead ( which is, if u cant alr tell, heavily inspired by 28 Days Franchise, source material and adaptation )
I’ll never forget that scene when Jim first finds Infected, thinking they’re people. But at the distance it’s filmed, it’s a perfect moment of uncanny valley for our own minds as we first notice something “off” about them.
The bed scene for 28 days was lifted from day of the triffids the 80s tv series, many many camera sets ups are the same, the hymm playing at one point is lifted as is scenery, camera angles and plot...watch it and you'll get it/understand it.😊
It's so effective, too, because it shows them sitting quietly, not moving, and then a single word from Jim triggers them to frantic, chaotic shambling in his direction. It illustrates just how quickly things can become total pandemonium when the Infected are involved.
🤦♀️ I'm sorry, but you were very clearly not old enough to truly understand or fully appreciate these films. I watched both of these movies in the theater in real time. You missed a hell of a lot. Especially in 28 weeks...
Sounds like that also ended up being half the issue with why it’s hard to find for streaming, as it’s super hard to scale up to 1080 and 4k. That said, I don’t think anyone would be mad if it was just released in 720 on streaming services. From what I understand the real problem is a rights problem, no one entity owns the rights to the movie so no one can sell them to a streaming service
The producers on 28 Days Later bought back the rights to the first film. When Sony bought the package deal for the new trilogy, they purchased the original film as well. So I expect Sony to rerelease 28 Days Later on DVD/Blu/digital a few months before 28 Years comes out. Disney/20th Century Studios owns 28 Weeks Later outright so that’s still on streaming services.
Personally I like how grainy and unpolished the film looks. It gives this amateur, grungy almost documentary-style filmmaking and it prevents the movie from looking too sterile and “Hollywood”. It really feels like some ordinary person was stuck in that world to document the journey of those trying to survive. And the ending being shot on film, clear and crisp, feels subtly hopeful just like the characters after going through the hell they experienced the entire movie.
@@declanjones8888 any late 90's-2000's digital camcorder will give you that effect, but it's a lot cheaper to use any other camera you already have and edit it to look like that in post-production.
Its a hard line to leave for anyone. Saying basically they dying to dream forever and they hope you don't wake up to the nightmare . It's a brutal line and really well placed
@@charlieberry7562I think she basically had no hope at all by then that Jim would survive being he hadn’t even come out of his coma so the letter was more of a goodbye for them before they spent their last moments as a couple and that’s why she choose to go comfortably, I don’t think she realistically expected Jim to find her and if anybody else had, she was done giving a fuck. Could also be a british thing, I’m married to an englishwoman, if I ever saw her actually wearing pants inside the house I’d expect something was wrong.
Interesting. I love 28 Days Later, but the first time I tried to watch 28 Weeks Later, l couldn't even make it past the opening scene. The shaky cam in 28 Weeks (Including but certainly not limited to the intro) is awful and over the top. Everything else was solid, but the camera work was absolutely awful and distracted from everything going on.
another tidbit, after mark is slain by Selena, Jim asks Selena if she would kill him as well if he was infected to which she replies "In a Heartbeat" the name of the song that plays during Jim's Rampage in act 3 is called "In A Heartbeat"
Agreed 100%! That opener had me on the edge of the couch, then afterwards it all got a bit ho-hum for me. And I gotta say, the whole "helicopter as a lawnmower" scene just made me straight out mad.
@@JohnDenverAirport They made the rest of Weeks too Hollyweird glossy! If they kept the Danny Boyle-style gritty camera work, it would have been so much better and true to the spirit of the franchise...
I've never been so shocked as the moment he leaves his wife. It's so brutal and real. A split second decision which most, despite not wanting to admit, probably make if they were in that situation.
This! I've watched it yesterday for the very first time and it feels so... "fresh". I would love to see more movies made like that, it gives it so much originality compared to crystal-clean blockbuster hits.
this is probably because it sort of "grounds" the movie by being imperfect, the lower quality gives a found footage feeling that the camera actually exists in the world and is not a idealized spectator
When this film came out, my mom was so scared she refused to go to the bathroom by herself for about 6 months even though she was like 40 at the time, it is a terrifying film would definitely recommend
My mum saw it in her 40s too, she went to the cinema. She said the walk back to the carpark was terrifying. 😂 I watched this film when I was 12 years old, absolutely loved it but I've always enjoyed creepy or scary things.
I walked in on my parents watch 28 Weeks Later on DVD when I was 5, right at the opening scene. Deadass one of the most traumatising momenta of my childhood.
I felt like zombies are the most unterifying “ghost” ever. Because they are “human” & are not real… rather than some demonic entity that lurking in the dark.
The fact 28 years later has Danny Boyle and Alex Garland coming back together to do the next sets of movies have me more excited. That damn trailer alone is amazing
A lot of OG zombie fans hated this film when it came out, and for a long time I couldn't figure out why. After all, the concept of the disease in the film, aside from some physics limitations (there's no way for a virus to course through anyone that quickly simply because The thermal energies involved would make you explode instead according to a biologist friend of mine anyway), it's us really good look at what a modified version of rabies would be if it caused humans to rage out and commit senseless acts of self-destructive violence like it does in other animals. It was at that point that I realized that one of the things that the old-school fan of zombie films enjoyed was the whole planning for a zombie apocalypse thing. This sense that it was some thing that if you were really smart and capable and daring, you'd come out ahead in a drastically depopulated world, and you'd suddenly be a much more important person simply because you survived. But of course, 28 days later leaves no room for such fantasies. The protagonists survive through sheer luck and a couple very desperate moments of heroism. But even then, they can't stop most of the people we see from getting killed, like that kids's parents who took them in for example. There is such desperation and helplessness and a realism to 28 days later that suddenly you can't enjoy the zombie apocalypse anymore, and I think that's what those OG fans of zombie movies were really pissed about. It's an important film because it shows much more accurately what the real fear amongst world leaders and military planners is. I believe that's why they try so desperately to quash any uprisings of protest, because they understand that when millions of people start moving as one, there is no force on earth that can stop them.
I'd argue Return of the Living Dead's original zombies present an even more dangerous threat than the 28 Days Later ones. (Also a huge point in early Zombie movies is the people being more dangerous than the zombies. The entire cast of NOTLD dies one by one due to a refusal to cooperate, trust eachother, make the right choices until it's way too late, and wasting time arguing, with the one survivor being killed by an armed mob the next day who mistook him for a zombie)
@@kalkuttadrop6371 Well that seems to be way more of a social commentary, whereas 28DL is more about "what happens if the zombies (or any big emergency event that affects all of society) are so fast and dangerous that we don't even have time to make those bigger slower mistakes." For example - when they go to Jim's parent's house in 28DL, they're all cooperating and working well together. One bite meant they had to murder him on the spot. I agree that the older zombie films still hold a lot of intellectual juice for looking at big human problems through an interesting lens. But yeah, if someone ever figured out how to gain-of-function edit rabies to virulent strain that was able to wipe everything from a human's frontal cortex besides rage, we could only *hope* to have enough time to deal with those bigger issues. When one zombie plus one human antagonist can realistically wipe an entire platoon of 20 soldiers, the bigger more strategic social issues just aren't even a thing any more.
@@klpaah Yeah. NOTLD is similar to Shaun in that it admits the military and armed civilians would have the situation under control in a day or two. And NOTLD zombies aren’t really contagious to the same degree(you need a pretty significant wound and it takes a while l, a little scratch or nip wouldn’t do it). Both films are about groups of people utterly failing to handle that initial 24 hour period though. In many ways it mirrors stuff like natural disasters actually
@@klpaah a massive difference here is the setting. England being what it is and their stance on guns is why the group our friends run into are the way they are. It would have been a very different film if it were set in america, even as a 'shit hits the fan' and lots of people are unprepared, a larger population would have been able to defend themselves without the military
the problem with this is that this movie, fast zombies in general, especially fast conversion, are totally unrealistic. so if you are looking to this as some sort of model for real life social disorder you are going to be way off. in fact slow zombies are a more realistic model for social protest movements: they build slowly from seemingly innocuous beginnings, only have force from overwhelming numbers (whereas a single fast zombie can infect the world) and can easily be crushed by a military with the will to use overwhelming force (see tienanmen).
They state in the extra on the dvd about the making of the film that it being shot on digital was to give it a specific feel and was a very deliberate choice, not because of budget.
Also they already made 28 seconds later, it were indeed a short film, but it was showing (what's implied to be) a soldier shooting some infected before he gets bit and we watch him turn
28 days later grainy effect to me felt so damn fitting and well done. It gave of this off putting dream like state that plays until the end. The end being shot much clearer shows off clarity like that nightmare finally ended. That we finally woke up from that terrible dream
Surprising that nobody has mentioned The Day of the Triffids. As far as I’m aware, that’s the first hospital awakening scene, and it’s very well done. Even worse because the protagonist is there for an eye surgery to fix his sight, and the majority of the world is now blind.
There is also a film from New Zealand thaat came out before all of this, with the main character waking in the hospital, to find the world has ended: I just can't for the life of me, remember what it's called ....
As the writer of 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, said in an interview "In fact, the start of 28 Days Later wasn’t a homage, it was a steal, really. The start of 28 Days Later is pretty much the start of Day of the Triffids."
In turn, The Walking Dead stole it from 28 Days Later. Kirkland won't admit it and pretends it was an accident, but the dates for the US movie release and issue 1 line up very nicely.
There is allegedly a sequel being planned that will pick up from the ending of 28 Weeks Later so hopefully that might include some more early days action!
The ‘28 series’ isn’t necessary a world movie. 28 weeks mentions that most of what happens only really happened in Britain. So the world should be fine. At least America definitely is. But an early movie wouldn’t be a bad idea…for some reason people want to see those lol…
@@michaelpowers6551 Honestly I think people would much prefer a sequel that was set in the run up to 28 Days Later rather than a sequel to 28 Weeks Later. I think most zombie movies/apocalypse movies are set in America now (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) but I'd love to see a different take where it's set in a different country and how they have to adapt and survive! Probably why I loved Train to Busan so much!
You didn’t talk about the airplane Jim saw when he was lying on his back outside the wall. That’s a short but HUUUUUGE part of the movie showing that even though Britain and its surviving inhabitants are going through hell, the rest of the world keeps going on with life.
@@imitenotbe It made me wonder how much the world knows what is happening in Britain. This is a time where the internet isn't too mainstream yet so while they can still get a small idea of what is happening there, They don't exactly have the full picture especially of how uncontrollably fast the spread of the Rage virus to the point of Science fiction.
Its similar to real epidemics, too fast of an effect and the virus just wont have enought time to travel around without killing all the infection carriers, or in this case, preventing it from getting into other contries via regular travel, i think world war z (book) did a really great job of showing how an infection like this goes worldwide, a slower time between infection to zombie and black markets of organs spreading it even more.
I love the opening scenes of both movies. The unease of the first one, and the great action scene in the second. And the line, "It's just us in 'ere, and dem out there".
That tunnel scene, with the rats running from the infected and the manic shadows coupled with the screaming of the infected is such an incredible scene.
Fun fact, many London streets were closed down to film this (if you couldn’t already tell). All the trash and tipped cars and shit is all real. Part of the reason why this movie feels so real and raw. Almost everything there is actually there throughout the whole movie.
I never thought zombies were scary growing up, until I saw 28 days, when the two zombies look at the main character in the church, that was always a chilling scene they look so uncanny, like could you imagine shining a light into a basement or room and those two turn and look at you? My soul would leave my body,.
The opening scene of 28 Weeks Later is one of the most stressful scenes ive ever seen. The way it tracks and shows more and more zombies chasing the guy, god, it still hits
After Andy is bitten/saliva'd on by his father, he becomes infectious, like his mother was, even if they were both "immune" (meaning they didn't get crazy violent). My interpretation of the ending scene is that Andy infected his sister and she infected the helo guy after they landed in France.
The notion that a cure could be found in 28 weeks later is complete nonsense. Andy and his mother are what is known as "Asymptomatic," this means that despite being 100% infected, they show few if any signs of infection but remain contageous. To make a cure, you need antiboies and for that, their imune system has to fight the infection and that is not happening. It is also implied that the lack of symptomes might be connected to the fact that they have eyes with different colors, this is due to a genetic anomally not inherited by his sister. If the theory that they could pass this on to others so they don't become violent was to be remotely possible, one would need to imprint this genetic anomally into the DNA of everyone left alive and that is simply not posible.
@@AtmonTheExectioner The Channel Tunnel theory refuses to die, but it doesn't bear scrutiny. It is literally 75 miles from South London to the Channel Tunnel entrance. Even if the infected were gripped by a desire to invade France they would have difficulty negotiating 75 miles of countryside, and they certainly couldn't do it before the US forces sealed the tunnel again. In any case this supposes that The French - or anybody else in Europe - would happily let the channel tunnel be reopened rather than deliver freight by ship to sustain a tiny population of refugees (the civilians are even resettled in a part of London called Docklands).
@petersvillage7447 firstly, as much as the films take place in and around London the whole of the UK fell so it's defo possible for infected to still be around in other parts of the UK even while the US took back the docklands. It's not likely they could travel theu the tunnel to France but its possible. Secondly, they're still british, of course they'll wanna invade France
What a nice compliment 😁 thank you. A lot of people think that the number beside the name makes it seem like you know what you’re doing but I’ve been feeling much more confident and comfortable lately with the videos so it’s making the jokes come more naturally. Always appreciate seeing comments like this. ❤️
THANK YOU for mentioning the absolute banger that is "In the House, In a heartbeat"! What an incredible, tense piece of perfect music by John Murphy. Right up there with Charlie Clouser's masterpiece "Hello Zepp" from Saw. I love 28 Days Later, especially for the fact that in the end, the humans were almost the scarier monsters. Also, I think it was actually one of the few if not the only Zombie movie to show the infected starving rather than just unexplicably keeping on going like actual undead. It makes the whole virus infection thing more realistic to me.
23:41 I know it's just a joke but it physically hurts to think that anyone would reduce the masterful and prolific work of Ralph Fiennes down to just 'Voldemort'
7:52 to me that moment that moment always felt like a "Dad to son" moment, with Jim knowing nothing about booze in general and Frank comes in like "Here son don't take that crappy stuff, if you take anything take the good stuff !"
What's interesting is the aspect that London has fallen, and most of the UK, but not the rest of the world. NATO kept the borders in check and closed everything off. For me at least, the idea that the rest of the world has not gone to shit and knowing that escaping could mean survival is even better.
Especially as people have literally swam the English channel before in real life so the idea of being able to escape to safety is way more interesting concept than a typical apocalyptic world where there’s less reason to survive
@@AwakenedAvocado they’re not typical zombies but humans infected with the rage virus & as 28 weeks later confirmed the virus was only ever contained in Great Britain so it’s safe to assume they can’t altho some can jump into shallow water as seen at the start of the sequel
i think more zombie media should experiment with this idea, the game Project Zomboid almost pulled this off because it was only a small county in kentucky that was infected but unfortunately the writers decided to make the infection spread to the rest of the world which I thought was pretty lame.
It's an aspect I like, but it also shows how much of a struggle getting out of somewhere like the UK would be. Despite being a relatively small country, when you have to walk and/or boat the distance to mainland Europe it still takes days (if you're lucky) and within those hours anything can happen.
I wholeheartedly agree that 28 days later really put zombies back in the spotlight. Even if the "infected" aren't "zombies". Not to nitpick, but mark wasn't bitten, he got cut and was covered in blood of the infected.
Not even that, nobody dies from Rage and comes back. The infection doesn't kill you, and we see that you can starve to death as infected. There's very little that actually resembles zombies here, other than changing into a mindless thing. But let's be real, people still call I Am Legend vampires zombies lol
@@chuckn4851 how is being accurate with very clearly defined things autistic? lemme guess, people saying the vampires in I Am Legend are zombies is totally cool with you too? how fucking limp wristed can you be lol
@@chuckn4851 wanting to be accurate with very clearly defined things isn't autistic lol but you're probably cool with the vampires from I Am Legend being called zombies too 🤣 such a limp wristed existence
@@imitenotbe Considering the I Am Legend novel is the birth of the Zombie genre (Causar Romero wanted to do an adaptation but didn't have the rights, so he made the night of the living dead) Despite being vampires
There was this sci-fi film from the 60s that seems like it inspired this film called "The Day of the Triffids". The movie is all about a meteor striking earth's atmosphere and blinding almost 90% of earth's population. The meteor released spores which caused aggressive carnivorous plants to grow. The part of the movie that makes me think it inspired this film is the traveling. The characters do a very large amount of traveling in order to avoid the plants.
Just to add, the movie is based on a book, written by John Wyndham in 1951 and an awful lot of 28 days later is 'borrowed' from it (not exaggerating, almost every major plotpoint is the same or similiar). Wyndham also wrote a similiar book called The Kraken Wakes (great book), among many others, including The Midwich Cuckoos, which is what 'village/children of the damned' and it's many later versions is based on. Shame no one seems to know about Wyndham, he should be up there with Orwell and Huxley for 30s-50s dystopian sci-fi authors.
@@donmongoose I had a vague impression that 28DL may even use one of the same locations as the 1981 TV series of Day of the Triffids - though there are one or two images (like a red bus lying on its side) that suggest the TV show influenced Garland and Boyle.
The craziest part about the opening to me was him looking at the memorial, with all of the photos and letters posted. Makes me think about when they were written/the initial shock of everything. Small detail but that was my favorite part.
most people don't know but there is 2 comics books about 28 days later franchise, one is called 28 days later the aftermath, and tells the backstory to why and who created the rage virus, and the other comic is called 28 days later, and is a sequel to the first movie, selena is in it, and the story connect itself with the second movie and happens at the same time with the second movie. both comics are pretty good. you can read online.
Yo I just watched your vid about this movie a couple of days before and suddenly the movie series has come back with a trailer! The timing is that good.
the base has no holes. Well, if its like my one anyway. So there would be 2cm of water depth. if your desperate, it could make the difference. Another small detail that makes this movie great.
In the 3rd act, I think it was done in a way to put a question in the mind of the viewing audience: "is Jim infected?". All the way up until the moment he stated: "that was longer than a heartbeat"!
I think it was also a way for the screenwriter to say: So, do you think that humans would only behave like zombies if infected? Do you think that the murderous rage comes from the virus? And that the ability to do evil almost with pleasure comes from outside? Well...
honestly i could see 28 seconds later being a prequel for literally how it started and how the virus got to the chimps by scientists experimenting with them
@@saulcervantes2287 Yeah, I like that one better. I’d rather see one start at 28 hours or at the very least 28 minutes. Or … have it start out with 28 seconds to show the virus going to the chimps, then 28 minutes later to give us a bit of a backstory on what happens in the first movie showing the beginning with the scientists and how it escapes the lab, it could then build up to show how it begins to spread within that first 28 hours, and then have the movie go on from there with full on breakdown up until the 28th day. 3-in-1 type of thing. Whichever, I just want more of these movies. Absolutely love the first one.
Hey bud I think you’d be interested in the comic book series that they have that follows a few stories before and right after the outbreak, check it out!
The fact that the time jump is utilised though, and our imagination fills in the horrific gaps make it thematically work so much better though. Its of course because of this that we want to see a prequel or a play by play of things going wrong but as stated in this video, it's the tension and build of NOT seeing something that allows you and your brain to truly fill the gaps and get the best horror experience out of it. The fast and frantic intro and the uncontrollable panic, fear, and confusion in it is so perfectly terrifying that I don't think anything else is needed beyond literally just that. A 28 seconds/ minutes/ hours prequel would just be wasteful and unnecessary exposition in my opinion. And when that time early time period is ever actually explored in zombie media, it always falls short and is extremely unconvincing , and just ruins the magic a little
This two movies are on the few ones to really use the zombie/infected genre in a creative way. It's impressive how a genre can be saturated and have wasted potential at the same time, 90% of zombie movies are just regurgitation of the Romero's formula.
I didn’t realize how hard it was to get ahold of 28 weeks later! Now I’m really glad I was a dvd addict in my youth and kept my copy in mint condition. lol it’s one of my favs as far as zombie/infected movies!
28 Day Later has an unshakeable position in my all-time Top 10 ... I still remember being so psyched to see this and being absolutely floored in the cinema by it. Since then I must have watched it at least another 50 times and it never gets old.
My friend and I were bored one day in the summer of '03, so we booted up Kazaa (early internet file sharing software) and ended up finding this movie. We sat and watched it on his family computer, set up next to the kitchen table, on a little 10 inch monitor, and it blew our minds. Discovered one of my favorite movies that day and I'll never forget it.
Would love to see your thoughts on BBC's "In The Flesh", which is set after a cure for their zombie virus is invented, and shows a medicated zombie returning to his family in the town where resistance originated!
That was brilliant, that series did actually gey in my head and freak me out abit.... did u see the fades aswell, it was that time BBC 3 was doing lots of wierd shows, being human aswell, loved that...
The bed scene for 28 days was lifted from day of the triffids the 80s tv series, many many camera sets ups are the same, the hymm playing at one point is lifted as is scenery, camera angles and plot...watch it and you'll get it/understand it.😊
As a Londoner, when this movie dropped, it was Dope!! Seeing London Bridge and Central London Absolutely Abandoned and silent you could hear a 50p coin drop was eerie to say the least. The ONLY time I've Ever seen London Bridge look That empty was the 1st couple of weeks of the infamous lockdowns (I used to take a night bus there to smoke a couple zoots and drink some rum and enjoy the peace and quiet). Plus, the grainy cinematography made it seem camcorder/Blair witch footage, which raised the thriller/horror stakes.
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As an avid apocalypse, post-apocalypse, and zombie apocalypse fan, there is no way it could ever be over-saturated. Every new take, even comedic or satirical, adds to the entire genre. Even the bad films. We can choose to ignore those, unlike other genres. It's zombies, man. It's all up to interpretation. If anything, we need more movies, shows, books, and games in this genre. A lively multiplayer post-apocalypse game that can evolve over time and decide on their own self-governed society in a world full of uncertainty and zombies? Yes please. Good cover video on the movie! I always loved 28 days later for the subversion of expectations
Ok but hear me out: 28 Decades Later sounds genuinely *ballin'.* I don't think there's ever been a big-budget zombie horror narrative in a cyberpunk setting, and they can hit on some of the same ideas as Shaun Of The Dead & the later Romero films, where the infected persist as like a barely-controlled labor force, just waiting for some Jurassic Park-style chaos to upend the system.
My fav zombie movies. Just the way Days looks alone scares tf outta me. That final scene in Weeks is one of the more effective uses of shaky cam, but the context is key. We think the infection is over, then it cuts to a random video of people being chased in Paris.
A rage filled interdimensional species shaping the universe in the capacity of chaotic gods. The whole initial infection arc and everything is a mere splinter in the lore and doesn't even get mentioned.
Yes. The protagonist is recuperating from an eye operation, so he isn't blinded by the meteor shower like ev eryone else. I saw the first series from the early 60's, and the remake, which is better.
There’s a lot of screenings popping up for 28 Days Later and I’m so excited to see it in cinemas. I was too young to see it in theatres when it came out but it still scared the shit out of me on VHS.
I'm surprised you didn't mention in 28 days later, the guy is talking about the UK being an island and maybe it's contained, and when Jim's on his back he sees a plane in the sky realising people are still around. So the zombies being in Paris is a lot more impactful in the second film because it's become widespread
these are one of my favorite zombie movies, thank you for making a good essay about it, onetime I just randomly found one of your videos and I must say im quite hooked, keep up the good work :}
Watching this film, fairly recently, I absolutely loved it. It feels so grand for its low budget parts. Not to mention the emotional beats of the film still hit. Cillian is also a welcome surprise with him giving a solid performance at the start of his career. Overall, I love the way it builds the world and tension. That opening sequence is iconic and the showdown at the end is still pretty creative for a zombie flick. I love that the whole film you see Jim as the naive and uniformed, yet moments peak through to show a rage filled man. For him to go feral at the end, but not because he is evil or cause he is infected. Rather to fight for what he has grown to love and not take for granted
I was in 6th Grade when 28 Days later was released. I remember my mom reading a newspaper article about how it was shot on a budget and they used sneaky tactics to get the empty london shots. She thought it sounded cool so took me to see it that weekend. We both loved it and saw it a second time the following week.
i recently discovered you and have been watching loads of your content, and i LOVE 28 days later and just could not be more thrilled to watch this!!! :)
28 Days later - Fighting Zombies in the country side 28 Weeks later - Fighting zombies in the City 28 Months later - Fighting zombies around the world 28 Years later - Fighting conspiracies about zombies 28 Decades later - Fighting zombies in space. 28 Centuries later - Fighting the Flood 28 Millenia later - Fighting Chaos and the Tyranids.
I actually think the flood would be worse than the tyranids (I don’t know much about the chaos) I don’t think humans would have much of a chance fighting the nearest equivalent to god
The only soldier i felt sorry for in the third act was the wimpy little cook. I mean he was going down the hall, screaming like ninny, and was so easily picked on by the others before the whole thing happened.
He still wanted Selena and Hannah as sex slaves to himself and the other soldiers tho, I could never feel bad for someone who wanted to subject people to that horror.
I really loved this video! As a British man, I can tell you it’s amazing to hear you say “it’s got that British quality” because I know what you mean, but weirdly can’t explain it other than saying “it’s British” 😂 I absolutely love 28 Days Later! Favourite film, I own it on BluRay, DVD & just bought it on Apple so it’s on my phone (released like yesterday?) Main reason writing - I’d love to see you do a video on the 28 Years Later Trailer and your thoughts. I was skeptical at 1st, but I’ve watched the trailer over & over again (that Britishness returns in the beginning of it) - I’m just worried I see some of 28 Weeks Later in it. (Like I keep seeing 1 zombie re-appear in the trailer, like a ‘boss zombie’ - I really hated that about 28 weeks)
28 days later is definitely my number 1 for favorite zombie movies, I like how it’s one of the few zombie movies that show how the outbreak started but also gives a happy ending even though there was a sequel which I also enjoyed. I do like the theme music in the first one more though because it’s slightly slowed down and sounds creepier whereas the one in 28 weeks later sounds very action packed and intense
28 lightyears away will be a movie about another alien race, not even a zombie movie. Then we have 28 million years ago about whatever happened then. And finally, 28 million years, which is a movie about the zombies being so far in the future, they become sentient and go back in time and start the events of 28 days later
My older brother went to see this in the cinema when it came out (I was too young). He came back buzzing about it. I remember him clearly saying "it's not like usual zombie movies, where the zombies move so slowly towards you with their arms out in front of them groaning, so you could easily hear them and outrun them - in this film, the zombies SPRINT at you at full speed! It was terrifying!". So I've always thought of this film as zombie turning point, from slow groany limpers to mad sprinters...
A pretty curious aspect of this scene (7:39) is how strangely relevant is the fact that the green apples look fine after a month. Since the movie is about the consequences of experimenting in biology, is curious how they show transgenics, a benefit of experiments, in the context of a biochem leak
I like your sense of humor man. Glad to see it coming out more in your recent vids. It adds a lot of personality to them and makes them less boring to watch compared to other channels.
This has been one of my all time faves since it came out. I love it, not for the zombies, but for the study of the human condition. And the way it portrays how different people might act when societal expectations are stripped away. This is when I fell in love with Cillian Murphy too. So glad to see 28DL getting the love it has always deserved 🙌
Hey man! I highly recommend ''Dead Set''. its a British zombie mini series not many people know about. Would love to hear your take on it, its very good.
A cool touch is Frank mentions they’ll run out water, and they need to move somewhere else. Then at the end of the film it’s pouring down and Jim, covered in water becomes the other twos salvation.
Weird that they call it "28 Years Later" instead of the one that makes more sense, 28 Months Later. What are they gonna show? The aftermath when everything is back to normal and people are living their best lives? Will we get Grandpa Rogers telling war stories about the Isle of Man? 😭😭
Tbh they could do something similar to the wwz novel where they have a reporter going around asking survivors of the outbreak about their experiences they could have a 3 act movie, with each one following a different survivor they could even vary between genres with one being a soldier going into the infected zone, one being a survivor living day to day in an undead world, another being a criminal and how he saw an empty world and took his time to enjoy it only for his world to be ripped away from him as he realizes the world is overrun with the dead
The main Actor Cillian is much older now and this is possibly the final film, I think they're trying to bring the films to a proper end. There's also the way of how British people measure time... We don't say '28 Months', we are much more likely to say '2 years and 4 months', which wouldn't make much sense, title-wise. 28 years makes more sense, in terms of the age of the main character, the British measure of time and the makes for a much bigger scope of story... Much more lore and world-building.
28 Days Later was shot on digital camcorders to give the illusion of a semi documentary feeling while watching something take place in the apocalypse. It was a creative choice, not as if they didn't have enough money to shoot on better cameras.
In an interview, Kirkman actually said that the similarity of rick and Jim waking up after the apocalypse started in a hospital was a "stolen idea coincidence" but he may have been blowing smoke lmao. It is believable though as he had plans for twd comics for a while well before the first issue release, but kept getting shot down, then the time it takes to release a "perfected" pilot issue.
A really neat aspect of 28 Days Later is that the monster clips were played at a 1.25 speed compared to the recording, giving them that frantic and terrifying movement. In the 3rd act, they did the same trick to many of Jims clips, making him appear very zombie like
That's super cool! Also makes sense now that you told me that 🤣
Neat
This method was also used by Korean Zombie Series: All Of Us Are Dead ( which is, if u cant alr tell, heavily inspired by 28 Days Franchise, source material and adaptation )
@@onemoreweek-lolgood series too havent watched the new stuff that came out but s1 was good
@@thethriftytypewriter ZOM 100 IS SUPER DOPE U SHOULD WATCH IT
28 hours later sound like an ideal prequel, given how fast things went to shit in 28 weeks
Absolutely. It can be like world war z where it's complete chaos and only focuses on how the outbreak spread
I never thought of 28hours tbf I think that would be class
28 Years Later is on the way. 28 Hours Later would be a nice lil bow to tie it all up.
Still waiting for 28 months later before 28 years later.
@@kzh2313more like "Contagion"
I’ll never forget that scene when Jim first finds Infected, thinking they’re people. But at the distance it’s filmed, it’s a perfect moment of uncanny valley for our own minds as we first notice something “off” about them.
That part terrified me when they looked up and just stared at
Its still the most memorable scene for me.
The bed scene for 28 days was lifted from day of the triffids the 80s tv series, many many camera sets ups are the same, the hymm playing at one point is lifted as is scenery, camera angles and plot...watch it and you'll get it/understand it.😊
It's so effective, too, because it shows them sitting quietly, not moving, and then a single word from Jim triggers them to frantic, chaotic shambling in his direction. It illustrates just how quickly things can become total pandemonium when the Infected are involved.
🤦♀️ I'm sorry, but you were very clearly not old enough to truly understand or fully appreciate these films. I watched both of these movies in the theater in real time. You missed a hell of a lot. Especially in 28 weeks...
It was filmed with specific cameras that happened to be cheap, it was not a budget issue, it was a style choice.
That's right. This is directed by Danny Boyle. Every one of his films has a very unique visual style.
Sounds like that also ended up being half the issue with why it’s hard to find for streaming, as it’s super hard to scale up to 1080 and 4k.
That said, I don’t think anyone would be mad if it was just released in 720 on streaming services.
From what I understand the real problem is a rights problem, no one entity owns the rights to the movie so no one can sell them to a streaming service
@@11jeransthere is a rights issue with 28 days actually
The producers on 28 Days Later bought back the rights to the first film. When Sony bought the package deal for the new trilogy, they purchased the original film as well. So I expect Sony to rerelease 28 Days Later on DVD/Blu/digital a few months before 28 Years comes out. Disney/20th Century Studios owns 28 Weeks Later outright so that’s still on streaming services.
do you know what cameras specifically?
Who's here after the 28 years later trailer dropped?
HEREE🎉
im here and so ready for it
Just saw the new trailer, never heard of it before but I'm tryna catch up before the new one comes out!
Me. Going to have to rewatch the other two.
Yoooo I thought the trailer was fire. The use of that Rudyard Kipling poem was chilling.
Personally I like how grainy and unpolished the film looks. It gives this amateur, grungy almost documentary-style filmmaking and it prevents the movie from looking too sterile and “Hollywood”. It really feels like some ordinary person was stuck in that world to document the journey of those trying to survive. And the ending being shot on film, clear and crisp, feels subtly hopeful just like the characters after going through the hell they experienced the entire movie.
I also love that grainy, grungy look. I kinda want a camera that will emulate that look.
you should watch Romero's zombie movies if you want grainy amature documentary
@@declanjones8888 any late 90's-2000's digital camcorder will give you that effect, but it's a lot cheaper to use any other camera you already have and edit it to look like that in post-production.
Me too as well. My name is Binkus.
something like REC ?
The "dont wake up" letter ruins me every time i watch 28 Days Later
Its a hard line to leave for anyone. Saying basically they dying to dream forever and they hope you don't wake up to the nightmare . It's a brutal line and really well placed
@@BestCupidyes, it's so brutal but also coming from a place of compassion. What they must have had to do thru to wish that for him :(❤
@@charlieberry7562I think she basically had no hope at all by then that Jim would survive being he hadn’t even come out of his coma so the letter was more of a goodbye for them before they spent their last moments as a couple and that’s why she choose to go comfortably, I don’t think she realistically expected Jim to find her and if anybody else had, she was done giving a fuck.
Could also be a british thing, I’m married to an englishwoman, if I ever saw her actually wearing pants inside the house I’d expect something was wrong.
I remember rewatching clips of the movie some months ago and I had forgotten that part and it affected me emotionally to a surprising degree.
@@vesuvianvillain "pants" 💀
28 Days is undoubtedly the better film overall, but the opening to 28 Weeks is one of the best openings I’ve seen to a horror film.
To any film*
eh it falls apart after he leaves the wife in the window and there's like 500 zombies coming over that bright green hill. cue Benny Hill music.
@@user-wi9hv2pb2qi think that can be said for any chase sequences in movies
Interesting. I love 28 Days Later, but the first time I tried to watch 28 Weeks Later, l couldn't even make it past the opening scene. The shaky cam in 28 Weeks (Including but certainly not limited to the intro) is awful and over the top. Everything else was solid, but the camera work was absolutely awful and distracted from everything going on.
agreed 100%... this trailer has my heart pounding though, best trailer I've seen in years!!!!
another tidbit, after mark is slain by Selena, Jim asks Selena if she would kill him as well if he was infected to which she replies "In a Heartbeat" the name of the song that plays during Jim's Rampage in act 3 is called "In A Heartbeat"
Man she becomes even more badass in her comic story.
No shit, it's in the fuxking video.
and after he finished his rampage, he said “That was longer than a heartbeat.” to Selena
And now we have 28 Years later! This review video just popped up in my recommendations because of that.
The opening scene to 28 Weeks later is one of the most iconic in horror media... and then the rest of the film is just pretty okay in comparison.
Agreed 100%! That opener had me on the edge of the couch, then afterwards it all got a bit ho-hum for me. And I gotta say, the whole "helicopter as a lawnmower" scene just made me straight out mad.
@@JohnDenverAirport They made the rest of Weeks too Hollyweird glossy! If they kept the Danny Boyle-style gritty camera work, it would have been so much better and true to the spirit of the franchise...
@@mrconfusion87 absolutely!
I've never been so shocked as the moment he leaves his wife. It's so brutal and real. A split second decision which most, despite not wanting to admit, probably make if they were in that situation.
I haven't seen it, but just the guilt alone, knowing you did that. Would be punishment enough @davehallam3894
i cant lie, the poor quality makes this movie so much better.
Very true. It's one of the things I don't like about new movies now, it looks way too sharp
This! I've watched it yesterday for the very first time and it feels so... "fresh". I would love to see more movies made like that, it gives it so much originality compared to crystal-clean blockbuster hits.
this is probably because it sort of "grounds" the movie by being imperfect, the lower quality gives a found footage feeling that the camera actually exists in the world and is not a idealized spectator
@@ecnalms851lol, just watch in a lower p format. 😂
There's def a charm to it. Real life can be a blur and often times unclear while these big budget cameras makes everything so crystal clear.
When this film came out, my mom was so scared she refused to go to the bathroom by herself for about 6 months even though she was like 40 at the time, it is a terrifying film would definitely recommend
Your mums a scaredy-cat
My mum saw it in her 40s too, she went to the cinema. She said the walk back to the carpark was terrifying. 😂 I watched this film when I was 12 years old, absolutely loved it but I've always enjoyed creepy or scary things.
I walked in on my parents watch 28 Weeks Later on DVD when I was 5, right at the opening scene. Deadass one of the most traumatising momenta of my childhood.
@@sonchik6324 yeah that opening scene always makes me realise how important cardio is 😂😂
I felt like zombies are the most unterifying “ghost” ever. Because they are “human” & are not real… rather than some demonic entity that lurking in the dark.
The fact 28 years later has Danny Boyle and Alex Garland coming back together to do the next sets of movies have me more excited. That damn trailer alone is amazing
I would just like to bring up that the music in 28 Days Later is PEAK horror music.
"In A House, in a Heartbeat" is AMAZING
Thank you for making me realize I need to sell my copy of 28 Days Later on Blu-ray
Jk it’s one of my all time favs. But if I ever need the money 👀👀
I was about to be like message me I’ll buy it!! But I understand keeping it 😂
I lost my normal copy of the film a few years ago and seeing how inaccessible it is makes me so annoyed 😂😂
@@TheultimategingerI just watched this movie like 2 days ago on Sling TV!!
@@tmclaug90 well thank god 😂😂 I don’t mind taking to the high seas but I’d rather pay for something if it’s good 😂
A lot of OG zombie fans hated this film when it came out, and for a long time I couldn't figure out why. After all, the concept of the disease in the film, aside from some physics limitations (there's no way for a virus to course through anyone that quickly simply because The thermal energies involved would make you explode instead according to a biologist friend of mine anyway), it's us really good look at what a modified version of rabies would be if it caused humans to rage out and commit senseless acts of self-destructive violence like it does in other animals.
It was at that point that I realized that one of the things that the old-school fan of zombie films enjoyed was the whole planning for a zombie apocalypse thing. This sense that it was some thing that if you were really smart and capable and daring, you'd come out ahead in a drastically depopulated world, and you'd suddenly be a much more important person simply because you survived.
But of course, 28 days later leaves no room for such fantasies. The protagonists survive through sheer luck and a couple very desperate moments of heroism. But even then, they can't stop most of the people we see from getting killed, like that kids's parents who took them in for example.
There is such desperation and helplessness and a realism to 28 days later that suddenly you can't enjoy the zombie apocalypse anymore, and I think that's what those OG fans of zombie movies were really pissed about.
It's an important film because it shows much more accurately what the real fear amongst world leaders and military planners is. I believe that's why they try so desperately to quash any uprisings of protest, because they understand that when millions of people start moving as one, there is no force on earth that can stop them.
I'd argue Return of the Living Dead's original zombies present an even more dangerous threat than the 28 Days Later ones.
(Also a huge point in early Zombie movies is the people being more dangerous than the zombies. The entire cast of NOTLD dies one by one due to a refusal to cooperate, trust eachother, make the right choices until it's way too late, and wasting time arguing, with the one survivor being killed by an armed mob the next day who mistook him for a zombie)
@@kalkuttadrop6371 Well that seems to be way more of a social commentary, whereas 28DL is more about "what happens if the zombies (or any big emergency event that affects all of society) are so fast and dangerous that we don't even have time to make those bigger slower mistakes."
For example - when they go to Jim's parent's house in 28DL, they're all cooperating and working well together. One bite meant they had to murder him on the spot.
I agree that the older zombie films still hold a lot of intellectual juice for looking at big human problems through an interesting lens.
But yeah, if someone ever figured out how to gain-of-function edit rabies to virulent strain that was able to wipe everything from a human's frontal cortex besides rage, we could only *hope* to have enough time to deal with those bigger issues. When one zombie plus one human antagonist can realistically wipe an entire platoon of 20 soldiers, the bigger more strategic social issues just aren't even a thing any more.
@@klpaah Yeah. NOTLD is similar to Shaun in that it admits the military and armed civilians would have the situation under control in a day or two. And NOTLD zombies aren’t really contagious to the same degree(you need a pretty significant wound and it takes a while l, a little scratch or nip wouldn’t do it). Both films are about groups of people utterly failing to handle that initial 24 hour period though. In many ways it mirrors stuff like natural disasters actually
@@klpaah a massive difference here is the setting. England being what it is and their stance on guns is why the group our friends run into are the way they are. It would have been a very different film if it were set in america, even as a 'shit hits the fan' and lots of people are unprepared, a larger population would have been able to defend themselves without the military
the problem with this is that this movie, fast zombies in general, especially fast conversion, are totally unrealistic. so if you are looking to this as some sort of model for real life social disorder you are going to be way off. in fact slow zombies are a more realistic model for social protest movements: they build slowly from seemingly innocuous beginnings, only have force from overwhelming numbers (whereas a single fast zombie can infect the world) and can easily be crushed by a military with the will to use overwhelming force (see tienanmen).
That line about 28 weeks being an american movie trying to be british was so spot on.
RIGHT?!
Indeed, It's like the latest season of Black Mirror that is now in a US setting, but is trying so hard to keep the British feeling.
The USA would be more likely to survive a zombie outbreak due to it having a bunch of guns and a super strong military.
not 'Amerand' Just soulless, boring, mass produced hollywood mess.
And they made kids stupid, how ironic 😂
They state in the extra on the dvd about the making of the film that it being shot on digital was to give it a specific feel and was a very deliberate choice, not because of budget.
Also they already made 28 seconds later, it were indeed a short film, but it was showing (what's implied to be) a soldier shooting some infected before he gets bit and we watch him turn
Good choice 👍
They also used that kit because of how light it is.
28 days later grainy effect to me felt so damn fitting and well done. It gave of this off putting dream like state that plays until the end. The end being shot much clearer shows off clarity like that nightmare finally ended. That we finally woke up from that terrible dream
We also saw the wake up in a hospital scene to discover the world has changed around them in resident evil apocalypse
Surprising that nobody has mentioned The Day of the Triffids. As far as I’m aware, that’s the first hospital awakening scene, and it’s very well done. Even worse because the protagonist is there for an eye surgery to fix his sight, and the majority of the world is now blind.
@@Emily.R.W that sounds really interesting and I’ve never heard of it.
There is also a film from New Zealand thaat came out before all of this, with the main character waking in the hospital, to find the world has ended: I just can't for the life of me, remember what it's called ....
As the writer of 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, said in an interview "In fact, the start of 28 Days Later wasn’t a homage, it was a steal, really. The start of 28 Days Later is pretty much the start of Day of the Triffids."
In turn, The Walking Dead stole it from 28 Days Later. Kirkland won't admit it and pretends it was an accident, but the dates for the US movie release and issue 1 line up very nicely.
I would like a 28 hours later movie, showing how the world looked one day after the infection started
There is allegedly a sequel being planned that will pick up from the ending of 28 Weeks Later so hopefully that might include some more early days action!
The ‘28 series’ isn’t necessary a world movie. 28 weeks mentions that most of what happens only really happened in Britain. So the world should be fine. At least America definitely is. But an early movie wouldn’t be a bad idea…for some reason people want to see those lol…
@@michaelpowers6551 fine how “the British isles” looked one day later
@@michaelpowers6551 Honestly I think people would much prefer a sequel that was set in the run up to 28 Days Later rather than a sequel to 28 Weeks Later. I think most zombie movies/apocalypse movies are set in America now (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) but I'd love to see a different take where it's set in a different country and how they have to adapt and survive! Probably why I loved Train to Busan so much!
That would be great kind of how the crazies was or Cloverfield
You didn’t talk about the airplane Jim saw when he was lying on his back outside the wall. That’s a short but HUUUUUGE part of the movie showing that even though Britain and its surviving inhabitants are going through hell, the rest of the world keeps going on with life.
as it really happens in life now. there's war and massive conflicts going on, meawhile the rest of the world is watching movies and arguing online lol
@@imitenotbe It made me wonder how much the world knows what is happening in Britain. This is a time where the internet isn't too mainstream yet so while they can still get a small idea of what is happening there, They don't exactly have the full picture especially of how uncontrollably fast the spread of the Rage virus to the point of Science fiction.
Its similar to real epidemics, too fast of an effect and the virus just wont have enought time to travel around without killing all the infection carriers, or in this case, preventing it from getting into other contries via regular travel, i think world war z (book) did a really great job of showing how an infection like this goes worldwide, a slower time between infection to zombie and black markets of organs spreading it even more.
its also in "fear"
the comic made that even more clear
I love the opening scenes of both movies. The unease of the first one, and the great action scene in the second. And the line, "It's just us in 'ere, and dem out there".
Just came after seeing 28 Years Later trailer, the trailer is soo good. Hope the movies serves the hype..
That tunnel scene, with the rats running from the infected and the manic shadows coupled with the screaming of the infected is such an incredible scene.
Fun fact, many London streets were closed down to film this (if you couldn’t already tell). All the trash and tipped cars and shit is all real. Part of the reason why this movie feels so real and raw. Almost everything there is actually there throughout the whole movie.
Wrong on 1 part no the trash wasn’t real
I never thought zombies were scary growing up, until I saw 28 days, when the two zombies look at the main character in the church, that was always a chilling scene they look so uncanny, like could you imagine shining a light into a basement or room and those two turn and look at you? My soul would leave my body,.
Yeah, that part scared the shit outta me lol Holy crap!
The opening scene of 28 Weeks Later is one of the most stressful scenes ive ever seen. The way it tracks and shows more and more zombies chasing the guy, god, it still hits
Trailer just dropped which brought me here!
After Andy is bitten/saliva'd on by his father, he becomes infectious, like his mother was, even if they were both "immune" (meaning they didn't get crazy violent). My interpretation of the ending scene is that Andy infected his sister and she infected the helo guy after they landed in France.
Actually, thats a good theory. That is so terrifying because they have no hope after that.
The notion that a cure could be found in 28 weeks later is complete nonsense. Andy and his mother are what is known as "Asymptomatic," this means that despite being 100% infected, they show few if any signs of infection but remain contageous. To make a cure, you need antiboies and for that, their imune system has to fight the infection and that is not happening. It is also implied that the lack of symptomes might be connected to the fact that they have eyes with different colors, this is due to a genetic anomally not inherited by his sister. If the theory that they could pass this on to others so they don't become violent was to be remotely possible, one would need to imprint this genetic anomally into the DNA of everyone left alive and that is simply not posible.
@@Zen_0344It could be. But also it is likely the channel tunnel would of been reopened to fast travel supplies and workers to the quarantine zone.
@@AtmonTheExectioner The Channel Tunnel theory refuses to die, but it doesn't bear scrutiny. It is literally 75 miles from South London to the Channel Tunnel entrance. Even if the infected were gripped by a desire to invade France they would have difficulty negotiating 75 miles of countryside, and they certainly couldn't do it before the US forces sealed the tunnel again. In any case this supposes that The French - or anybody else in Europe - would happily let the channel tunnel be reopened rather than deliver freight by ship to sustain a tiny population of refugees (the civilians are even resettled in a part of London called Docklands).
@petersvillage7447 firstly, as much as the films take place in and around London the whole of the UK fell so it's defo possible for infected to still be around in other parts of the UK even while the US took back the docklands. It's not likely they could travel theu the tunnel to France but its possible. Secondly, they're still british, of course they'll wanna invade France
I feel like your humor is shining through in a lot of your more recent uploads and im all for it, the pirate bit in the intro made me chuckle
What a nice compliment 😁 thank you. A lot of people think that the number beside the name makes it seem like you know what you’re doing but I’ve been feeling much more confident and comfortable lately with the videos so it’s making the jokes come more naturally. Always appreciate seeing comments like this. ❤️
I will never get tired of zombie media.
Facts
28 days isn't a zombie movie
@@dream6562🤓☝️
@@dream6562 lol
@@dream6562yes it is
THANK YOU for mentioning the absolute banger that is "In the House, In a heartbeat"! What an incredible, tense piece of perfect music by John Murphy. Right up there with Charlie Clouser's masterpiece "Hello Zepp" from Saw.
I love 28 Days Later, especially for the fact that in the end, the humans were almost the scarier monsters. Also, I think it was actually one of the few if not the only Zombie movie to show the infected starving rather than just unexplicably keeping on going like actual undead. It makes the whole virus infection thing more realistic to me.
23:41 I know it's just a joke but it physically hurts to think that anyone would reduce the masterful and prolific work of Ralph Fiennes down to just 'Voldemort'
7:52 to me that moment that moment always felt like a "Dad to son" moment, with Jim knowing nothing about booze in general and Frank comes in like "Here son don't take that crappy stuff, if you take anything take the good stuff !"
Jim does call Frank "dad" at one point, so yeah I also assume that's what it was meant to invoke
What's interesting is the aspect that London has fallen, and most of the UK, but not the rest of the world. NATO kept the borders in check and closed everything off. For me at least, the idea that the rest of the world has not gone to shit and knowing that escaping could mean survival is even better.
Especially as people have literally swam the English channel before in real life so the idea of being able to escape to safety is way more interesting concept than a typical apocalyptic world where there’s less reason to survive
@@tbow6719 so you're assuming the zombies can't swim
@@AwakenedAvocado they’re not typical zombies but humans infected with the rage virus & as 28 weeks later confirmed the virus was only ever contained in Great Britain so it’s safe to assume they can’t altho some can jump into shallow water as seen at the start of the sequel
i think more zombie media should experiment with this idea, the game Project Zomboid almost pulled this off because it was only a small county in kentucky that was infected but unfortunately the writers decided to make the infection spread to the rest of the world which I thought was pretty lame.
It's an aspect I like, but it also shows how much of a struggle getting out of somewhere like the UK would be. Despite being a relatively small country, when you have to walk and/or boat the distance to mainland Europe it still takes days (if you're lucky) and within those hours anything can happen.
I wholeheartedly agree that 28 days later really put zombies back in the spotlight. Even if the "infected" aren't "zombies". Not to nitpick, but mark wasn't bitten, he got cut and was covered in blood of the infected.
Not even that, nobody dies from Rage and comes back. The infection doesn't kill you, and we see that you can starve to death as infected. There's very little that actually resembles zombies here, other than changing into a mindless thing. But let's be real, people still call I Am Legend vampires zombies lol
@@imitenotbe Trust me I get it but we don't need to be *that* autistic about everything lmfao
@@chuckn4851 how is being accurate with very clearly defined things autistic? lemme guess, people saying the vampires in I Am Legend are zombies is totally cool with you too? how fucking limp wristed can you be lol
@@chuckn4851 wanting to be accurate with very clearly defined things isn't autistic lol but you're probably cool with the vampires from I Am Legend being called zombies too 🤣 such a limp wristed existence
@@imitenotbe
Considering the I Am Legend novel is the birth of the Zombie genre (Causar Romero wanted to do an adaptation but didn't have the rights, so he made the night of the living dead)
Despite being vampires
There was this sci-fi film from the 60s that seems like it inspired this film called "The Day of the Triffids". The movie is all about a meteor striking earth's atmosphere and blinding almost 90% of earth's population. The meteor released spores which caused aggressive carnivorous plants to grow. The part of the movie that makes me think it inspired this film is the traveling. The characters do a very large amount of traveling in order to avoid the plants.
Main character wakes up in a hospital too.
Just to add, the movie is based on a book, written by John Wyndham in 1951 and an awful lot of 28 days later is 'borrowed' from it (not exaggerating, almost every major plotpoint is the same or similiar). Wyndham also wrote a similiar book called The Kraken Wakes (great book), among many others, including The Midwich Cuckoos, which is what 'village/children of the damned' and it's many later versions is based on.
Shame no one seems to know about Wyndham, he should be up there with Orwell and Huxley for 30s-50s dystopian sci-fi authors.
@@donmongoose JW is the unappreciated godfather of the zombie genre for sure 🌿💕
@@donmongoose I had a vague impression that 28DL may even use one of the same locations as the 1981 TV series of Day of the Triffids - though there are one or two images (like a red bus lying on its side) that suggest the TV show influenced Garland and Boyle.
90%!? That's not fucking far. I need my eyes to look at p-
I hate the idea of being blind. it sucks.
the pirate ship to explain how you watched it had me laughing hysterically haha
It’s a schooner ;)
Train to Busan analysis would be great
The craziest part about the opening to me was him looking at the memorial, with all of the photos and letters posted. Makes me think about when they were written/the initial shock of everything. Small detail but that was my favorite part.
most people don't know but there is 2 comics books about 28 days later franchise, one is called 28 days later the aftermath, and tells the backstory to why and who created the rage virus, and the other comic is called 28 days later, and is a sequel to the first movie, selena is in it, and the story connect itself with the second movie and happens at the same time with the second movie. both comics are pretty good. you can read online.
Yo I just watched your vid about this movie a couple of days before and suddenly the movie series has come back with a trailer! The timing is that good.
1:27. One of the water collecting buckets is a washing basket full of holes😂
the base has no holes. Well, if its like my one anyway. So there would be 2cm of water depth. if your desperate, it could make the difference. Another small detail that makes this movie great.
In the 3rd act, I think it was done in a way to put a question in the mind of the viewing audience: "is Jim infected?". All the way up until the moment he stated: "that was longer than a heartbeat"!
I think it was also a way for the screenwriter to say: So, do you think that humans would only behave like zombies if infected? Do you think that the murderous rage comes from the virus? And that the ability to do evil almost with pleasure comes from outside? Well...
@@EduardoSDRthis! How much did mass hysteria contribute
honestly i could see 28 seconds later being a prequel for literally how it started and how the virus got to the chimps by scientists experimenting with them
It would be better if it was 28 hours later showing the first 28 hours after the first person got infected and how it started to become a shit show
@@saulcervantes2287 Yeah, I like that one better. I’d rather see one start at 28 hours or at the very least 28 minutes.
Or … have it start out with 28 seconds to show the virus going to the chimps, then 28 minutes later to give us a bit of a backstory on what happens in the first movie showing the beginning with the scientists and how it escapes the lab, it could then build up to show how it begins to spread within that first 28 hours, and then have the movie go on from there with full on breakdown up until the 28th day. 3-in-1 type of thing.
Whichever, I just want more of these movies. Absolutely love the first one.
Hey bud I think you’d be interested in the comic book series that they have that follows a few stories before and right after the outbreak, check it out!
The fact that the time jump is utilised though, and our imagination fills in the horrific gaps make it thematically work so much better though. Its of course because of this that we want to see a prequel or a play by play of things going wrong but as stated in this video, it's the tension and build of NOT seeing something that allows you and your brain to truly fill the gaps and get the best horror experience out of it. The fast and frantic intro and the uncontrollable panic, fear, and confusion in it is so perfectly terrifying that I don't think anything else is needed beyond literally just that. A 28 seconds/ minutes/ hours prequel would just be wasteful and unnecessary exposition in my opinion. And when that time early time period is ever actually explored in zombie media, it always falls short and is extremely unconvincing , and just ruins the magic a little
Short movie!
This two movies are on the few ones to really use the zombie/infected genre in a creative way. It's impressive how a genre can be saturated and have wasted potential at the same time, 90% of zombie movies are just regurgitation of the Romero's formula.
I just came across your channel and I'm hooked. I love your sense of humor and eloquent narration without being pretentious. A+
I didn’t realize how hard it was to get ahold of 28 weeks later! Now I’m really glad I was a dvd addict in my youth and kept my copy in mint condition. lol it’s one of my favs as far as zombie/infected movies!
28 Day Later has an unshakeable position in my all-time Top 10 ... I still remember being so psyched to see this and being absolutely floored in the cinema by it. Since then I must have watched it at least another 50 times and it never gets old.
I'm not big on horror but 28 days is amazing
My friend and I were bored one day in the summer of '03, so we booted up Kazaa (early internet file sharing software) and ended up finding this movie. We sat and watched it on his family computer, set up next to the kitchen table, on a little 10 inch monitor, and it blew our minds. Discovered one of my favorite movies that day and I'll never forget it.
Would love to see your thoughts on BBC's "In The Flesh", which is set after a cure for their zombie virus is invented, and shows a medicated zombie returning to his family in the town where resistance originated!
That was brilliant, that series did actually gey in my head and freak me out abit.... did u see the fades aswell, it was that time BBC 3 was doing lots of wierd shows, being human aswell, loved that...
Flesh was fantastic! So original!
@@YouRemindMeOfTheBabe08 "in the flesh"..... lol
You had me at "Even the Doctor apologizes."😂
The bed scene for 28 days was lifted from day of the triffids the 80s tv series, many many camera sets ups are the same, the hymm playing at one point is lifted as is scenery, camera angles and plot...watch it and you'll get it/understand it.😊
As a Londoner, when this movie dropped, it was Dope!!
Seeing London Bridge and Central London Absolutely Abandoned and silent you could hear a 50p coin drop was eerie to say the least.
The ONLY time I've Ever seen London Bridge look That empty was the 1st couple of weeks of the infamous lockdowns (I used to take a night bus there to smoke a couple zoots and drink some rum and enjoy the peace and quiet).
Plus, the grainy cinematography made it seem camcorder/Blair witch footage, which raised the thriller/horror stakes.
Thomas Shelby was Rick Grimes in England
Rick Grimes is Jim in America.
If the walking dead had these type of zombies. The show would been over in three episode.
That's funny because Andrew Lincoln is british!
Just want you to know that I really love your vids. Showed you to my brother the other day. So glad that you're gaining traction. Keep kicking ass. He heard me listening to one of your vids and asked, I went, "Oh, it's a smaller channel that goes over movies and stuff," then immediately realized that you're no longer a smaller channel.
In the grand scheme of RUclips I’m still a small channel 😂 but yes the growth of the channel has blown my mind recently.
As an avid apocalypse, post-apocalypse, and zombie apocalypse fan, there is no way it could ever be over-saturated. Every new take, even comedic or satirical, adds to the entire genre. Even the bad films. We can choose to ignore those, unlike other genres. It's zombies, man. It's all up to interpretation.
If anything, we need more movies, shows, books, and games in this genre. A lively multiplayer post-apocalypse game that can evolve over time and decide on their own self-governed society in a world full of uncertainty and zombies? Yes please.
Good cover video on the movie! I always loved 28 days later for the subversion of expectations
28 weeks later was one of my favorite movies as a kid, thats where my love of zombies started!
Ok but hear me out: 28 Decades Later sounds genuinely *ballin'.* I don't think there's ever been a big-budget zombie horror narrative in a cyberpunk setting, and they can hit on some of the same ideas as Shaun Of The Dead & the later Romero films, where the infected persist as like a barely-controlled labor force, just waiting for some Jurassic Park-style chaos to upend the system.
snow crash?
We just hit 28 years, keep wishing
28 Decades, like, something goes wrong while unfreezing Elon Musk for his trip to Mars?
My fav zombie movies. Just the way Days looks alone scares tf outta me.
That final scene in Weeks is one of the more effective uses of shaky cam, but the context is key. We think the infection is over, then it cuts to a random video of people being chased in Paris.
7:36 this was one of my favorite scenes. I wish there were more but the pacing between the down time and tension was well done
28 years later just released this morning!!
The trailer you mean? The film hits theatres next June!
@ yeah my bad lmao I’m half excited and half awake 🤣
28 million years later would be great
A rage filled interdimensional species shaping the universe in the capacity of chaotic gods. The whole initial infection arc and everything is a mere splinter in the lore and doesn't even get mentioned.
Billions and billions. Bing bing bong.
It would be so funny of them to just make a sci-fi movie that has no relation to the rest of the movies
The Day of the Triffids is the earliest example I remember of the waking up in the hospital, being there saving the main character
Yes. The protagonist is recuperating from an eye operation, so he isn't blinded by the meteor shower like ev eryone else. I saw the first series from the early 60's, and the remake, which is better.
Danny Boyle himself said that Day of the Triffids was an inspiration for 28 Days Later
There’s a lot of screenings popping up for 28 Days Later and I’m so excited to see it in cinemas. I was too young to see it in theatres when it came out but it still scared the shit out of me on VHS.
AND THE 28 YEARS LATER trailer just dropped! Nice one!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention in 28 days later, the guy is talking about the UK being an island and maybe it's contained, and when Jim's on his back he sees a plane in the sky realising people are still around. So the zombies being in Paris is a lot more impactful in the second film because it's become widespread
personally the quality of the film and the editing are what make the 1st film extra unique, i absolutely love how it looks and feels
these are one of my favorite zombie movies, thank you for making a good essay about it, onetime I just randomly found one of your videos and I must say im quite hooked, keep up the good work :}
Watching this film, fairly recently, I absolutely loved it. It feels so grand for its low budget parts. Not to mention the emotional beats of the film still hit. Cillian is also a welcome surprise with him giving a solid performance at the start of his career. Overall, I love the way it builds the world and tension. That opening sequence is iconic and the showdown at the end is still pretty creative for a zombie flick. I love that the whole film you see Jim as the naive and uniformed, yet moments peak through to show a rage filled man. For him to go feral at the end, but not because he is evil or cause he is infected. Rather to fight for what he has grown to love and not take for granted
Recently watched 28 weeks later. An excellent horrific experience. Still holds up and is probably underrated tbh
I was in 6th Grade when 28 Days later was released. I remember my mom reading a newspaper article about how it was shot on a budget and they used sneaky tactics to get the empty london shots. She thought it sounded cool so took me to see it that weekend. We both loved it and saw it a second time the following week.
i recently discovered you and have been watching loads of your content, and i LOVE 28 days later and just could not be more thrilled to watch this!!! :)
28 Days later - Fighting Zombies in the country side
28 Weeks later - Fighting zombies in the City
28 Months later - Fighting zombies around the world
28 Years later - Fighting conspiracies about zombies
28 Decades later - Fighting zombies in space.
28 Centuries later - Fighting the Flood
28 Millenia later - Fighting Chaos and the Tyranids.
I actually think the flood would be worse than the tyranids (I don’t know much about the chaos)
I don’t think humans would have much of a chance fighting the nearest equivalent to god
Lmao the tyranids get pretty close to that level of power themselves
The only soldier i felt sorry for in the third act was the wimpy little cook. I mean he was going down the hall, screaming like ninny, and was so easily picked on by the others before the whole thing happened.
He still wanted Selena and Hannah as sex slaves to himself and the other soldiers tho, I could never feel bad for someone who wanted to subject people to that horror.
I really loved this video!
As a British man, I can tell you it’s amazing to hear you say “it’s got that British quality” because I know what you mean, but weirdly can’t explain it other than saying “it’s British” 😂
I absolutely love 28 Days Later! Favourite film, I own it on BluRay, DVD & just bought it on Apple so it’s on my phone (released like yesterday?)
Main reason writing - I’d love to see you do a video on the 28 Years Later Trailer and your thoughts.
I was skeptical at 1st, but I’ve watched the trailer over & over again (that Britishness returns in the beginning of it) - I’m just worried I see some of 28 Weeks Later in it. (Like I keep seeing 1 zombie re-appear in the trailer, like a ‘boss zombie’ - I really hated that about 28 weeks)
Sorry but the intro to both movies is a 10/10. Best zombie movie intros ever
28 days later is definitely my number 1 for favorite zombie movies, I like how it’s one of the few zombie movies that show how the outbreak started but also gives a happy ending even though there was a sequel which I also enjoyed. I do like the theme music in the first one more though because it’s slightly slowed down and sounds creepier whereas the one in 28 weeks later sounds very action packed and intense
Yes! 28DL is the GOLD STANDARD upon which I compare all zombie films against! 😎🤘🍻
Congratulations on 150,000!🎉
Thank you very much!!!
28 lightyears away will be a movie about another alien race, not even a zombie movie. Then we have 28 million years ago about whatever happened then. And finally, 28 million years, which is a movie about the zombies being so far in the future, they become sentient and go back in time and start the events of 28 days later
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Then the prequel to 28 years can be a tv show 28 months later
Today is 1-23-25,I rented 28 days later on Prime for $3.99.
My older brother went to see this in the cinema when it came out (I was too young). He came back buzzing about it. I remember him clearly saying "it's not like usual zombie movies, where the zombies move so slowly towards you with their arms out in front of them groaning, so you could easily hear them and outrun them - in this film, the zombies SPRINT at you at full speed! It was terrifying!". So I've always thought of this film as zombie turning point, from slow groany limpers to mad sprinters...
A pretty curious aspect of this scene (7:39) is how strangely relevant is the fact that the green apples look fine after a month. Since the movie is about the consequences of experimenting in biology, is curious how they show transgenics, a benefit of experiments, in the context of a biochem leak
Naomie Harris needs to be cast in more films. "28 Days Later", "Trauma", the Bond films, she's an action bad ass.
Wasn't she in another movie with Cillain Murphy? Something about being on holiday in a cabin or something...I can't recall
Good thing I have the DVDs of both films in a box set... 😊
Me too, Finnish edition :)
I like your sense of humor man. Glad to see it coming out more in your recent vids. It adds a lot of personality to them and makes them less boring to watch compared to other channels.
This has been one of my all time faves since it came out. I love it, not for the zombies, but for the study of the human condition. And the way it portrays how different people might act when societal expectations are stripped away. This is when I fell in love with Cillian Murphy too. So glad to see 28DL getting the love it has always deserved 🙌
I am British and I can speak for everyone in the UK that the characters are pretty spot on to how we live and act 😂🤘🏻 great video as always 👌🏻
Hey man! I highly recommend ''Dead Set''. its a British zombie mini series not many people know about. Would love to hear your take on it, its very good.
Did you know there is a Brazilian copy of that series? I've seen both
@@kelsey2333 I had no idea, name?
@@vintersorg5501Reality Z, it's okay not a great remake with the story being weirdly extended past where dead set ended but not a bad time
Truly the most terrifying outbreak, if it ever happened in real life.
WORLD WAR Z is close to topping it though
A cool touch is Frank mentions they’ll run out water, and they need to move somewhere else. Then at the end of the film it’s pouring down and Jim, covered in water becomes the other twos salvation.
Love how you cheekily referred to Harrold Perrineau as Doyle. Nice touch.
Weird that they call it "28 Years Later" instead of the one that makes more sense, 28 Months Later. What are they gonna show? The aftermath when everything is back to normal and people are living their best lives? Will we get Grandpa Rogers telling war stories about the Isle of Man? 😭😭
Tbh they could do something similar to the wwz novel where they have a reporter going around asking survivors of the outbreak about their experiences they could have a 3 act movie, with each one following a different survivor they could even vary between genres with one being a soldier going into the infected zone, one being a survivor living day to day in an undead world, another being a criminal and how he saw an empty world and took his time to enjoy it only for his world to be ripped away from him as he realizes the world is overrun with the dead
The main Actor Cillian is much older now and this is possibly the final film, I think they're trying to bring the films to a proper end.
There's also the way of how British people measure time... We don't say '28 Months', we are much more likely to say '2 years and 4 months', which wouldn't make much sense, title-wise.
28 years makes more sense, in terms of the age of the main character, the British measure of time and the makes for a much bigger scope of story... Much more lore and world-building.
Are you stupid? It's a film, they can show anything they like
28 Days Later was shot on digital camcorders to give the illusion of a semi documentary feeling while watching something take place in the apocalypse. It was a creative choice, not as if they didn't have enough money to shoot on better cameras.
Idk what happened behind the scenes but both things could be true at the same time.
@@JustaBigMan it's just research
In The house in a heartbeat remix for kickass does that mean kickass is a zombie film
Yes it does.
in the house in a heartbeat made this movie, its one of the greatest pieces of movie music going.
The sound track on 28 days is so good and contributes so much to the feel of the film. Sparse, dissonant, with some occasional melodic relief.
In an interview, Kirkman actually said that the similarity of rick and Jim waking up after the apocalypse started in a hospital was a "stolen idea coincidence" but he may have been blowing smoke lmao.
It is believable though as he had plans for twd comics for a while well before the first issue release, but kept getting shot down, then the time it takes to release a "perfected" pilot issue.