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 )
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
Even though it came from compassion, with my autism and seeing things simplistically it bothered me. 😅 logically, if he’s asleep his body can be mauled. He has a shot awake. Plus, I still find it odd that Jim’s mum chose to die in such revealing underwear? I think in part it’s because in the U.K. it’s often chilly, and also I can’t conceive of sleeping in anything more revealing then pjs. My first thought wasn’t “they’re dead how sad, it was, why’s she left her body like that where he may find her? 😅 I dunno maybe I’m weird lol
@@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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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
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,.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. ❤️
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"!
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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
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
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 :}
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.
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!!! :)
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
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.
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.
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.
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Two things I really loved about this movie compared to every other zombie movie I’ve seen: 1: The infection isn’t just some bioweapon or space spore. It is literally the Rage of humanity realized in a physical manner in the blood of the infected and reflecting how infectious Rage can be and the scientist in the beginning had only good intentions to cure the rage of humanity and try to bring peace to his planet. The infected themselves continue to reflect this by not always going for the bite to spread it like other zombie types. Half the time they literally just beat the crap out of their victims in pure Rage. Easily this is my most favorite zombie type ever because it’s not just a zombie at all but a pure emotion made into physical reality. Another thing about the infected I like is that they aren’t even dead, they’re still living creatures just out of complete control of their bodies and emotions, this is proven at the end as they literally starve to death. 2: They only introduced characters they needed to, even if it meant killing one of them off for character growth. For Selena it was her moment that she would not hesitate to kill anyone who was infected no matter how long she knew them. For Hannah she had to watch her own father get gunned down and that scene is what began tearing her apart and made her feel 100x more hopeless than she already did when we first met her. On top of that they didn’t kill off practically every main character like most zombie movies do. The trio at the end managed to live a happy quiet life while waiting for rescue from the military until the apocalypse literally ended itself. I’m glad I was lucky enough to grow up on this movie and it will always be one of those gems that I will forever love even more than The Walking Dead & even the comedic Zombieland
Its so awesome, I watched the movie back when it was released. I think it was my 15th birthday... And it kicked off the zombie craze together with the best ten years off my life
I actually think the piece of music you're referencing was also used in "The Walling Dead" , the episode where Daryl, rick, TDog and Glenn came back for Merle and only found his hand still attached to the pipe via the handcuffs. That piece of music plays as Daryl cries "NO.... NO!... NAAAHO!" ETC.
Nope, they do sound similar though! I just listened to the scene to make sure and they are different but it’s clearly inspired by In The House, In A Heartbeat.
@@thethriftytypewriter Hey you're right! My bad on that one. But it really did contribute to the overall aesthetic that 28 Days Later had, that TWD aimed for.
Great video, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Not to be that guy but one important detail of these movies that sets them apart from other zombie media is that these aren't your typical zombies, they're just sick people. That being said you're right about this movie's influence on the genre being very influential and I'd say we're lucky to have them. 🙂
The best part of the first movie was the transition from the group relaxing, enjoying the beauty around them, and connecting with each other to arriving at the checkpoint and the father dying. We let our guard down. We relaxed, connected with the characters, and enjoyed the beauty too. And all that sets us up for one of the most painful moments. They kill the character that will hurt the most to lose in a way that will hurt the most. The father, the beacon of hope, the one that held them all together, the one that had a kid, dead because of a mistake and just bad luck tbh. We go from the highest point to the lowest point and fast. And we don't get that in the second movie. There's no up to come down from. We're never given anything so there's never anything to rip away from us. It feels like, in the first movie, you walked into a dark room after being in a brightly lit room, and in the second movie, you're in a dark room the whole time. You're eyes adjusted; you adjusted. The continued darkness doesn't bother you as much as sudden darkness does. Every horror movie should be taking notes on 28 Days Later, not just Zombie ones.
Watching an old civilization collapse so fast is more depressing than one that started out relatively more recently (like Murica or any of the New World countries for instance)!
that scene with robert carlisle (forget the charecters name) looking back to see his wife dragged back away from the window always stuck with me, its so quick and theres no blood or gore, but you can only imagine the horror happening behind the wall.
I Haven't thought of this movie in a while, but the scene in the cement bunker is fucking haunting. Being trapped with no escape and no idea what's going on is terrifying. Incredibld concept
A test I use for 'is a film good for non-regular film watchers' is if my Dad can stay awake throughout. If he stays awake it means the film has kept his attention, regardless of genre. More often than not he's out within 20 minutes but some keep him awake. A few examples - Joker, Vice, Ringu, Audition, The Irishman (took two sittings but he did it) are a few off the top of my head. I showed him 28 Days later over twenty years ago now but it still surprises me how enthralled with was with that film. This is a guy that doesn't like over the top violence in films and often likes a snooze to good old black white film from the 50's. It's a testament to the writing and direction that it's not just a great horror film, it's a great film altogether. Plus we're British so seeing London depicted as it was was incredible at the time.
I just love how this movie really redefined the Zombie genre from the typical Halloween curse rise from the grave zombies to being a harmful virus that infects the human host into a rage-induced monster. Which has been used by recent zombie movies and video games.
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!
You forgot to mention that 28 days later wasn't just shot digitally but also on much smaller handy cam type cameras so they could maximise the shots when closing off major cities or road ways.
Mark wasn't bitten, it was a normal wound but the chances of getting a wound from the infected all but garentees that he's infected. Heck he could've just gotten it from the broken glass and not be infected at all but the rage virus is so scary and lethal that Selina couldn't take the chance. Especially since it only takes one drop and 20 seconds to turn. I also support the theory that the soldiers are not actually soldiers to explain why they are so incompetent. They are civilians (I like the think gang members) that donned fatigues and planned to trick people. Its how they coped to the fear of the rage virus.
Or they were originally civies who latched on to the Major cuz he was the only one alive that had a grasp of what to do in a post-apocalypic UK wasteland... 🤣🤣🤣
If anybody wonders why 28 days later was shot on digital and not film, it’s because they wanted to make the film feel like somebody has recorded it (found footage didn’t exist yet). Not because of the low “budget”. Dark blue world was on film for the same budget. Edit: Found footage existed at that time (The blair witch Project), but The trend didn’t start until Pranormal activity
I'll admit 28 hours later showing the beginning of the chaos would be a spectacular prequel. 28 days showing the apocalypse beginning to dull down as survivors die, 28 weeks showing the humanitys fight back and the beginning of an actual world wide pandemic. 28 months later could show us how current survivors have begun to handle and adapt to the apocalypse and 28 years later could show the world either coming back from extinction or becoming a zombie wasteland
I can understand wanting to get back in the country asap. This is our ancestral homeland and we don't have anywhere else to go. It's the reason lots of people still stay today in spite of what's happening to the country. We're not economic migrants, this is our home
Trivia nobody will ever see probably 😁 In Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty we have achievement in "Outbreak" mission - you have to finish the mission in 28 minutes or less - also it is zombie-themed with night attack etc
28 days later is a rewrite of the Day of the Triffids, subsituting zombies for the plants. The hospital sciene, the shopping sciene, right down to someone ordering everyone to stick to the shopping list.
Your observation that American zombie movies have more guns is due to these other Countries not having freedoms to own guns. So be fare and not so disingenuous.
28 days gave me nightmares for weeks. Two scenes stand out, Mark's story about how his family tried to escape "..my dad had all this money", and the scene when they're leaving London in the taxi, and briefly in the reflection of the car window, an abandoned tractor had been piling up dead bodies Edit: I watched it again and I had forgotten the infected child in the dark abandoned gas station. Horrifying
OMG!!!! thank you so much for throwing out the short film of 28 seconds and fortnight LOVE IT!!! As a fan of fast and furious id be die hard for short films 28 seconds, minutes and hours
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"
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 :(❤
Even though it came from compassion, with my autism and seeing things simplistically it bothered me. 😅 logically, if he’s asleep his body can be mauled. He has a shot awake. Plus, I still find it odd that Jim’s mum chose to die in such revealing underwear? I think in part it’s because in the U.K. it’s often chilly, and also I can’t conceive of sleeping in anything more revealing then pjs. My first thought wasn’t “they’re dead how sad, it was, why’s she left her body like that where he may find her? 😅 I dunno maybe I’m weird lol
@@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.
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 ?
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
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
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 😂
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*
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
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.
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.
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
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.
@@RosinaEmilyW 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.
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).
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
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,.
I will never get tired of zombie media.
Facts
28 days isn't a zombie movie
@@dream6562🤓☝️
@@dream6562 lol
@@dream6562yes it is
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"
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.
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
@@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
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.
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. ❤️
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.
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.
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
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!
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
Train to Busan analysis would be great
You had me at "Even the Doctor apologizes."😂
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.
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.
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!
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?
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"!
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!
@@NatashaBehrends "in the flesh"..... lol
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.
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.
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.
28 weeks later was one of my favorite movies as a kid, thats where my love of zombies started!
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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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
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 👌🏻
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.
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.
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
Good thing I have the DVDs of both films in a box set... 😊
Me too, Finnish edition :)
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! 😎🤘🍻
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 :}
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: 1st movie
28 weeks later: 2nd movie (sequel)
28 months later: maybe 3rd movie?
28 years later: 4th movie
28 hours later: 5th movie, 1st prequal
28 minutes later: 6th (short) movie, 2nd prequal
28 seconds later: prequel trailer for everything
It’s 28 years later as the third film. I think it’s been confirmed
@@andu1854 yeah, I'm kinda excited ngl
Truly the most terrifying outbreak, if it ever happened in real life.
WORLD WAR Z is close to topping it though
I've been feeling really lucky to still have a DVD copy of 28 days later that I bought way back when it was released.
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!!! :)
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
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.
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
There is two zombie movies coming out in 2025. One of them is called "28 years later" and the other one is "Crawlers".
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This movie completely blew me away when I saw it in the theater. Thanks for shining a spotlight on it!
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.
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In The house in a heartbeat remix for kickass does that mean kickass is a zombie film
Yes it does.
Two things I really loved about this movie compared to every other zombie movie I’ve seen:
1: The infection isn’t just some bioweapon or space spore. It is literally the Rage of humanity realized in a physical manner in the blood of the infected and reflecting how infectious Rage can be and the scientist in the beginning had only good intentions to cure the rage of humanity and try to bring peace to his planet. The infected themselves continue to reflect this by not always going for the bite to spread it like other zombie types. Half the time they literally just beat the crap out of their victims in pure Rage. Easily this is my most favorite zombie type ever because it’s not just a zombie at all but a pure emotion made into physical reality. Another thing about the infected I like is that they aren’t even dead, they’re still living creatures just out of complete control of their bodies and emotions, this is proven at the end as they literally starve to death.
2: They only introduced characters they needed to, even if it meant killing one of them off for character growth. For Selena it was her moment that she would not hesitate to kill anyone who was infected no matter how long she knew them. For Hannah she had to watch her own father get gunned down and that scene is what began tearing her apart and made her feel 100x more hopeless than she already did when we first met her. On top of that they didn’t kill off practically every main character like most zombie movies do. The trio at the end managed to live a happy quiet life while waiting for rescue from the military until the apocalypse literally ended itself.
I’m glad I was lucky enough to grow up on this movie and it will always be one of those gems that I will forever love even more than The Walking Dead & even the comedic Zombieland
28 Seconds Later does exist in a comic called 28 Days Later: The Aftermath. It's interesting really worth it imo.
Its so awesome, I watched the movie back when it was released.
I think it was my 15th birthday...
And it kicked off the zombie craze together with the best ten years off my life
I actually think the piece of music you're referencing was also used in "The Walling Dead" , the episode where Daryl, rick, TDog and Glenn came back for Merle and only found his hand still attached to the pipe via the handcuffs. That piece of music plays as Daryl cries "NO.... NO!... NAAAHO!" ETC.
Nope, they do sound similar though! I just listened to the scene to make sure and they are different but it’s clearly inspired by In The House, In A Heartbeat.
@@thethriftytypewriter Hey you're right! My bad on that one. But it really did contribute to the overall aesthetic that 28 Days Later had, that TWD aimed for.
Great video, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Not to be that guy but one important detail of these movies that sets them apart from other zombie media is that these aren't your typical zombies, they're just sick people. That being said you're right about this movie's influence on the genre being very influential and I'd say we're lucky to have them. 🙂
I wish you did the "boowuh" sound when you said The Crazies
Damn I should’ve done that
The best part of the first movie was the transition from the group relaxing, enjoying the beauty around them, and connecting with each other to arriving at the checkpoint and the father dying. We let our guard down. We relaxed, connected with the characters, and enjoyed the beauty too. And all that sets us up for one of the most painful moments. They kill the character that will hurt the most to lose in a way that will hurt the most. The father, the beacon of hope, the one that held them all together, the one that had a kid, dead because of a mistake and just bad luck tbh. We go from the highest point to the lowest point and fast. And we don't get that in the second movie. There's no up to come down from. We're never given anything so there's never anything to rip away from us. It feels like, in the first movie, you walked into a dark room after being in a brightly lit room, and in the second movie, you're in a dark room the whole time. You're eyes adjusted; you adjusted. The continued darkness doesn't bother you as much as sudden darkness does. Every horror movie should be taking notes on 28 Days Later, not just Zombie ones.
I love this film cause of how bloody terrifying it is as they run and its set in England
Watching an old civilization collapse so fast is more depressing than one that started out relatively more recently (like Murica or any of the New World countries for instance)!
that scene with robert carlisle (forget the charecters name) looking back to see his wife dragged back away from the window always stuck with me, its so quick and theres no blood or gore, but you can only imagine the horror happening behind the wall.
if you want 28 days and 28 weeks later on bluray then amazon Japan is your friend
I Haven't thought of this movie in a while, but the scene in the cement bunker is fucking haunting. Being trapped with no escape and no idea what's going on is terrifying. Incredibld concept
28 Fortnite later had me laughing so hard. Thanks for that 😂
A test I use for 'is a film good for non-regular film watchers' is if my Dad can stay awake throughout. If he stays awake it means the film has kept his attention, regardless of genre. More often than not he's out within 20 minutes but some keep him awake. A few examples - Joker, Vice, Ringu, Audition, The Irishman (took two sittings but he did it) are a few off the top of my head. I showed him 28 Days later over twenty years ago now but it still surprises me how enthralled with was with that film. This is a guy that doesn't like over the top violence in films and often likes a snooze to good old black white film from the 50's. It's a testament to the writing and direction that it's not just a great horror film, it's a great film altogether. Plus we're British so seeing London depicted as it was was incredible at the time.
Please do a video on Mad Max: Fury Road. It’s a great post apocalyptic world.
I just love how this movie really redefined the Zombie genre from the typical Halloween curse rise from the grave zombies to being a harmful virus that infects the human host into a rage-induced monster. Which has been used by recent zombie movies and video games.
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!
Thrifty please subtract these polynomial expressions:
(3x^4+23x^3-4)-(56x^4-22x^3+44)
I TOLD YOU NO
Just use matheay jack
-53x⁴+45x³-48
21
You forgot to mention that 28 days later wasn't just shot digitally but also on much smaller handy cam type cameras so they could maximise the shots when closing off major cities or road ways.
I was afraid of sleeping at my friends house cause of this movie. I had to sleep on a couch next to a sliding glass door. fuck that noise
28 days later scared the absolute living crap out of me.
Now we need 28 years later, 28 decades later, 28 centuries later, 28 millenia later, etc. We have so many more sequel possibilities!
Been watching for around 2 years now. I really love the dead of the night zombies music intro. And I’ve never seen anyone else point it out yet
Mark wasn't bitten, it was a normal wound but the chances of getting a wound from the infected all but garentees that he's infected. Heck he could've just gotten it from the broken glass and not be infected at all but the rage virus is so scary and lethal that Selina couldn't take the chance. Especially since it only takes one drop and 20 seconds to turn.
I also support the theory that the soldiers are not actually soldiers to explain why they are so incompetent. They are civilians (I like the think gang members) that donned fatigues and planned to trick people. Its how they coped to the fear of the rage virus.
Or they were originally civies who latched on to the Major cuz he was the only one alive that had a grasp of what to do in a post-apocalypic UK wasteland... 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 That's also true
the pirate ship to explain how you watched it had me laughing hysterically haha
If anybody wonders why 28 days later was shot on digital and not film, it’s because they wanted to make the film feel like somebody has recorded it (found footage didn’t exist yet). Not because of the low “budget”. Dark blue world was on film for the same budget.
Edit: Found footage existed at that time (The blair witch Project), but The trend didn’t start until Pranormal activity
I'll admit 28 hours later showing the beginning of the chaos would be a spectacular prequel. 28 days showing the apocalypse beginning to dull down as survivors die, 28 weeks showing the humanitys fight back and the beginning of an actual world wide pandemic. 28 months later could show us how current survivors have begun to handle and adapt to the apocalypse and 28 years later could show the world either coming back from extinction or becoming a zombie wasteland
I can understand wanting to get back in the country asap. This is our ancestral homeland and we don't have anywhere else to go. It's the reason lots of people still stay today in spite of what's happening to the country.
We're not economic migrants, this is our home
Fair enough. I was mainly speaking for myself if the USA had something like this and I had to go elsewhere, I’d just wanna stay there 😂
> We're not economic migrants, this is our home
They're not either. They're economic leeches. Fight back and defend your home.
Trivia nobody will ever see probably 😁 In Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty we have achievement in "Outbreak" mission - you have to finish the mission in 28 minutes or less - also it is zombie-themed with night attack etc
It changed the genre by forcing us to call them infected and not zombies.
28 days later is a rewrite of the Day of the Triffids, subsituting zombies for the plants. The hospital sciene, the shopping sciene, right down to someone ordering everyone to stick to the shopping list.
Your observation that American zombie movies have more guns is due to these other Countries not having freedoms to own guns. So be fare and not so disingenuous.
Do you mean the freedom to send our kids to school knowing they'll come home ??
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when the blood drips into the guys eyes... Man watching that as a kid, wish i could rewatch it to get that same feeeling lol
28 days gave me nightmares for weeks. Two scenes stand out, Mark's story about how his family tried to escape "..my dad had all this money", and the scene when they're leaving London in the taxi, and briefly in the reflection of the car window, an abandoned tractor had been piling up dead bodies
Edit: I watched it again and I had forgotten the infected child in the dark abandoned gas station. Horrifying
They had a perfect opportunity to make a Quiet Place Day 1 type movie calling it 28 hours later.
OMG!!!! thank you so much for throwing out the short film of 28 seconds and fortnight LOVE IT!!!
As a fan of fast and furious id be die hard for short films 28 seconds, minutes and hours