Don wisely told them not to open the door. When his wife overruled him, he took responsibility and the personal risk to do it. When they broke in, he did most of the hand to hand fighting and even rescued the Asian guy. When she wouldn't come with him to the next room and instead went for the boy and got trapped, there were multiple infected between him and her so he could do nothing. Then after he escaped and the Asian guy with the boat that he previously rescued fell in, he still tried to help him despite being swamped with infected. He's made out to be a craven coward who ran, but he went above and beyond what was reasonable.
I don't know where he's made out to be a coward in the film. The whole point of this scene is that it's not his doing, it's just his primal instincts to do so. The same way it was Alice's instinct to take in and protect the child. Neither are wrong in doing what they did, because it ultimately was out of their control.
@Vegito_Fanpage You might have a fair point there. But my take on it was that he was cast as a coward who abandoned his family. Though, it may just have been his sense of guilt at doing what was reasonable. I felt that the end of the movie was the writer/director giving the audience a sense of 'payback'.
@@NewsRedial Yeah. The film was subtle enough about it, but I do think that's how they were trying to paint Don, with how they framed him when his children lashed out at him for lying to them and when he tried to apologise to Alice and said "he was scared."
@@NewsRedial Ooh, actually yeah now that I think about it that ending bit does kind of feel like that. But yeah, I always assumed it was just meant to be his guilt eating away at him even though what he did was perfectly reasonable, like survivor guilt.
Don is everyone on survival mode. Told them to not open the door. Bro was bashing heads in w a crowbar for as long as possible. Still ran and held his wife’s hand but she was like noooo let me find this kid. Genuinely tried his best in that given situation. Bros cardio is peak tho.
Don is repeatedly, repeatedly shown to be an absolute coward in this film, he's so survival smart is he?? He kisses his infected wife and destroys the world
Carlyle is a more than decent actor. Shame that he was given a role as Bond villain only to be lousily written (he did well in that scene with Elektra and in that scene with Bond in Kazakhstan, but otherwise it was a not so appealing character, not his fault)... althought Bond producers did Waltz even dirtier than Carlyle 😨
That would explain it then when the film Started I had real high hopes this scene was fantastic but to be honest this is the only scene I can even remember from this forgettable sequal. I have high hopes for the 3rd installment @@SpiderBatFan
The UK countryside is one of the coolest settings for a zombie outbreak, so much beautiful scenery and landscape tainted with a lingering sense of imminent dread.
I feel so bad for Jacob, like he managed to escape quietly toward the dock and about to set off till Don comes barreling in with the entire damn herd of infected😭
What I love about this scene is that Don actually shows enormous bravery and courage trying to fight off the initial infected. It's not until he realises how f*cked the situation is until he realises that there's almost no hope for any of them and that saving his wife is totally futile. I don't think Don is a coward.
I agree with you. Just to go back and forth about it, I think the core problem decision that he makes is when the infected burst through the door to the upstairs bedroom. At that moment he either has to throw himself into them to give his wife and the kid a chance, or he closes the door. I think 99.99% of the time it doesn't even save them if he does it, and they don't make it to the boat even if he does. I guess there is at least some immorality in not giving your life for theirs regardless though. Idealistically I think most of us would like to believe we would fight and die for our children or loved ones. In that single moment, Don chooses not to. Again, the only real reasonable decision available to him.
i think the infected already smelled the candles and food and heard faint voices coming from the inside of the cottage, but was still waiting for that "neurotic stimulus" (seeing an uninfected) which then would kicked off the rage.
The AUDACITY to ask for help after ignoring your husband who you've been married to for years, in a life or death situation, to help a boy you've known for like 2 minutes, is crazy. Don did nothing wrong here.
It doesn’t matter if they opened the door or not at that point, he attracted them there. Only difference is that they would have felt horrible. You see how easy they broke through that window?
@@HisNameIsEL are you implying the zombies wouldnt have found them? These things could spot you if you make the wrong eye contact. And that whole town was filled with armies of them. They were dead one way or another.
I love how when this first came out. Everyone called him a coward. Now that everyone is back because of the trailer. We are now older and wiser. Thus can understand why he did what he did.
Exactly. I'm a pretty empathetic woman who loves children, but I'm watching this and thinking: yeah, no i'm not helping this screaming child. 1 life at the risk of 6?! It's one thing if they had an underground bunker that they all could have immediately gone into after helping the boy to wait until the infected left, but no. Not wasting the lives of the group.
I'll throw Day of the Dead into the ring. Visually, it's a spectacle. But there's something about the exchange between John and McDermott being able to hear the sound of the countless massing zombies moans over the noise of the helicopter's engine, as they start to rouse and shuffle relentlessly towards the chopper, that still gives me the creeps almost 40 years (damn, I'm old!) later.
@@bmorebirdsnest92 I suspect they were talking about the shot prior to yours, looking back at the cottage and then closer the window where his wife was last seen. It just looks like a peaceful rural home shot without the outbreak's context.
Tbf, Jacob had taken way too long getting the boat ready, although he was killed for plot reasons, in reality, I think someone in that moment, wouldn't do that miss step and slip lol
Don choosing self preservation was the only thing that made sense. What was he going to do? Kill multiple infected with his bare hands while keeping their blood out of his eyes and mouth so he doesn't also turn? Don't get it twisted, he wasn't a coward or malicious. When Jacob fell out of the boat, he could of easily sped off and left him to his fate. However, he reached into the water and tried to help him before he was dragged under. Sometimes there can be no heroes. Most of the time, its just about you taking care of yourself and hoping people around you can do the same.
@@YoubyMcRUclipsrFaceExactly. The only true interpretation is that the wife got herself killed due to motherly instinct, while Don simply knew there was no saving her and in that moment chose flight as a survival instinct (which saved his life). He showed the complete opposite of cowardice for the entire scene until that moment, where he had no chance of winning, and it was basically everyone else in the scene that messes up and makes mistakes. Don was just a better surviver. Jacob was lucky to even make it to the dock. What's interesting to me is that both of those choices is what causes the second outbreak. If the wife survived she would not be an asymptomatic host, and if Don stayed and died then he would not get infected later and cause the second outbreak.
@@geedee1264Actually it was the kids fault. They inherited the mom’s stupidity and went out. Now they brought their infected mom with them which shouldn’t have happened.
Don is no coward, there is NO way he could have saved his wife, that one zombie was charging at him and he closed the door, seconds later 3 more followed. His ONLY way out was through the window and escape. You dont melee those zombies, they are raging and if you get hold of one, they vomit blood on you, turning you instantly
He did the best he could do. Without him holding them off they would've all been swarmed downstairs. They were a doomed group, two men, two old people and two women and a limited food supply with no hope of escape. As he said they were barely surviving.
Danny Boyle is responsible for the first movie. He directed this opening section to the sequel but another director took over the rest of the movie following the canal escape scene. Danny is back for the 3rd movie and he won’t let us down.
This is STILL one of the very best opening minutes of a horror film. So wildly intense. Every unplanned decision one makes can either save you or get you bit.
100% agree, the music is has so much build behind it. The wild speed and aggression of those monsters. It's just chilling, best zombie/rage virus film out there in my opinion.
@@jimbaker4277They had to make that change or it wouldn't work. The zombie genre was stagnant, and it wasn't too good to begin with. Maybe a rotting corpse isn't a big threat, so you gotta suspend disbelief by either nerfing the characters (classic) or buffing the enemies (28 days). I always hated seeing someone running from a zombie that's not moving fast at all, then they trip and we get a bite jumpscare. Land of the Dead did offer an interesting take though with them learning how to use guns.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun There was actually a full study done as a combat scenario and it determined that even in countries where guns arent readily available, if the zombies were dawn of dead/walking dead types, we would win pretty quickly.
The background music enhanced the terror of this scene, it feels like hopelessness vibe. Imagine being chased by a fast running infected, and gotta give props to that shot where it had the perspective of the infected running, it just shows how intense they run chasing for their prey.
And honestly, there was next to nothing Don could have done at that point to save Alice. Don would have been killed or infected with certainty if he had lunged in at that infected man inside the room, and Alice and the kid had no way out with more infected in the only exit door ready to swarm them, and the other door that they went through leading to a closed room. If Don had lunged in, he would've just been throwing his life away for nothing. At least by Don running, SOMEONE made it out alive and at least ONE OF Andy and Tammy's parents stood a chance at making it back to them.
@@ecthox-1mork909 as granddad said in "the Boondocks" while being chased by hundreds of Stinkmeaners while leaving everyone to die in a very similar way we see hear: sorry boys, cheers
Can we just take the time to give Geoff (the old man) the credit he deserves for pullin' a Hodor and trying to buy Jacob and his wife some time to escape
To be completely honest, I love how trying to be heroic or having attachments is what got these people got. You can’t spend time arguing or looking for someone who’s hiding or else you’re dead, you just have to keep moving which Don did.
Ironically, human's abbility to feel emotions and empathy is both our greatest strength and weakness. Strength, because humans are social by nature, and the larger amount of them gathered, the better they fare against the world. Weakness, because that exactly is what leads to people taking irrational decisions based on emotions instead of logic, which ultimately leads to us making terrible choices.
I absolutely adore this scene because you can see how every character responds differently in their panic from the very moment Lauren gets bit. Don immediately entered fight mode, Alice's motherly instincts immediately kicked in and she went for the kid, some of them ran, some froze. No one is at fault for their reaction. It was a completely fair reaction for Alice to go try get the child because a mother more than likely wouldn't just leave a child to die, no matter what, even if it's not their child. At the same time, Don's reaction of running once the infected made it into the room was also completely fair, because there was nothing more he could do and he didn't have any relationship to the boy that Alice instinctually had. Then finally, Alice was totally fair in screaming after Don because, I mean who wouldn't given the situation? She was as entitled to feel betrayed and abandoned as Don was to feel there was nothing he could do but run.
Youre wrong. Everything happened because of Alice. And even after shit hits the fan she just bangs on the window crying instead of trying to open it and escape.
@@GorrnLord They were doomed the moment that kid showed up at their door. He literally told them that there was an entire horde on his heels. In what world is the situation Alice’s fault, or any of their faults? This opening scene is horrific because it shows you the reality of disaster scenarios. You can do everything right and still die because of circumstances completely out of your control.
@@rhyswilliams9778 If they don't open the door then the horde shows up and the kid runs, then the horde chases the kid. We have no idea if the horde would have approached the house or known that people were in. If the group were smart they'd have just remained quiet and hidden. Both films have plenty of examples of infected not noticing people inside homes when they are quiet.
2:51 I like how Jacob, even in this tense moment, stays to wait for them, but since she doesn't want to leave, he gets angry, growls, and goes up like, "Well, I'll stay with you two, but if the infected come in, I'll be safe."
Even in his very limited screen time I thought Jacob was an interesting character because he kind of embodied the “selfish/mean” survivor stereotype in these movies but yet when push came to shove he always tried to help the others. He was the first one to run and try and help Karen the blonde girl who he was just being mean towards a few moments prior, he tried to stay and help the old lady up the ladder for as long as possible even after the infected burst into the room and when Don arrived at the boat he let Don jump on first so he could finish untying it and pushed the boat away from the dock.
I have to give Don and Jacob credits they trying to invest it keep them safe but they both failed because of that one kid brought the whole town after them
That whole scene was women not listening and making stupid decisions. First the girl opens a crack which gave them away. Then johns wife disobey him over and over (then had the nerve to ask for help). Finally the old man's wife (sully) wouldn't accept his sacrifice for her slow azz and after he dies and she finally goes for the ladder what does she do? That's right begs Jacob for HELP, lol that's what your husband died trying to do.
Do you fault Don for spreading the virus to the entire world??? He abandoned her, kisses her, infects himself, kills her, destroys the world "He did what anybody else would have done" It's a bit like people are just trying to be contrarian
@@geedee1264That argument has nothing to do with this particular scene and/or the point the commenter was trying to make, But if we wanna talk about that and be technical on assigning blame here, I’d say in first is the stupid PETA group who unleashed that virus in the first movie, then Doctor who made the virus, and then the military in this movie who was so bloody incompetent that they not only didn’t stop or shoot the kids going into the red zone but to then not put multiple guards around someone who they KNOW is a carrier of said world-ravaging virus and then Don, who is ridiculously stupid for kissing someone that’s clearly strapped down to a bed that he knows got attacked. All in all, Don was dumb, but my god was everything avoidable if the military actually did their damn job in this movie.
Now THIS is how you shoot a film. This raw film style with minimal music makes these films superb. The camera is very shaky and you don’t see the infected crystal clear for too long which makes it just that much more scary.
Despite Don made a terrible mistake in his later life, he actually did his best to protect his wife and other survivors. 1. He insisted not to take the kid in to avoid getting detected by infected. 2. He killed three infected up close and personal. 3. He unintentionally saved his wife by running away, when he ran away from the cottage the infected chase him instead of killing his wife.
I would do the same but i let those rage zombies chase me for my love ones to survive hiding behind the closet while i climb above the roof or find nearest tree to climb. I dont have the cardio to run that far.
That is not what happened to his wife, she was dragged out of the window and (SPOILER alert) infected (although she came up as an asymptomatic carrier), infected people in "later's universe" are so vicious (it is called the Rage Virus) that it is so HIGHLY unlikely that they would not have bashed her skull even though, or precisely because, she did not become another infected raging murderer. Look at (again, SPOILER alert) what Don did to his wife once she infected him or, rather, he infected himself by kissing her, how many seconds did it take for him to squash her brains? That was some lousy writing, like, "hey, we need to bring back the virus but all infected are history, what do we do? That's it! Don's wife is infected but alive as an asymptomatic carrier! But, how did she survive? Meh, too much asking, she did and that's enough" 🤨
@@carlosayala5161the infected don’t always bash in the persons skull. The old man didn’t get his skull bashed in when they attack him as you see him turn . So there’s no reason as to why his wife wouldn’t have simply been bit by them and then left . Remember the kid was also there so maybe they went more for him?
I love the new trailer for 28 yrs later,but a lot of fans like me hate that over narration poetry etc,and the music wasn't good.What stood out was no dialogue,but really creepy and great visual landscape shots.
Not really, i think Jeremy Renner and the doctor save the second half, for me it doesnt come of the rails, it declines a bit but the chopper scene and jeremy's sacrifice are peak cinema.
@@dancho117It's a decent film but there are far more gaps in logic that are a bit hard to ignore. In the first film no one knew about the virus, making the spread logical. In the second film they bring an infected person into the ONLY major resettlement colony, they leave her unguarded, and the janitor is able to get access to her... It's a bit silly really when you think about it. The first film handles the outbreak so much better. Activists absolutely could cause a pandemic by prioritising emotion (saving animals) over logic (scientist screaming that the chimp is infected). I still think 28W later is a cool film with good actors, but it doesn't hold a candle to the consistently high bar of 28D.
@@dancho117 They also cram everyone into one room (super dumb) and have minimal guards when the outbreak occurs. The obviously sensible decision would be to lock everyone down in their rooms until the infected were killed. You'd think this would have been considered ahead of time. Just a lot more suspension of disbelief in 28W
As a horror fanatic, and someone who has seen almost all horror media. I’ve been telling people for years. This is the scariest 6 minutes in all cinema history.
5:10 Bruh that sprint from the middle zombie guy was fucking insane, thats terrible to behold in a real situation! And those shoulder camera shots! Love them!
I think the scariest part is the fact that the infected aren’t your traditional zombie you’ve seen in movies before. They’re not a reanimated corpses that consume the humans, they’re living people who are in an endless state of rage. They’re just animals who just wanna kill
Indeed, which is why I didn’t like the fact the infected can be seen biting people in this film. They never did in 28 Days, only mauled them to death or infected them inadvertently.
Agreed, my favorite zombie concept. Also scarier because a man-made virus that causes murderous rage & rabid behavior is more believable, plus they're really fast and jacked on adrenaline
@@smhht ...yet biting is very animalistic and certainly a weapon, in fact specifically banned from any fighting sport...in the film In Hell, for example, spoiler ofc, at the end of his process of becoming a mindless raging animal to survive in the prison, the protagonist ends up killing one of his opponents in a fight by biting his neck...powerful scene. Also it is cool that via biting they can infect you very efficiently, so yeah, vampires bite for blood, zombies to eat you, these motherfuckers to infect you.
@ - yeah 😂 the whole scene I think Riley and Huey were left behind in the house and grandpa ran and was being chased by stinkmeaner or however you spell his name 😂 classics shit man
@@smhht It wasn't broken. He twisted it, maybe sprained it. In a life or death situation you would not feel it until you've calmed down. Heck even some broken bones can be walked on if you don't feel the pain. Anyway when he turned up at the sanctuary in london he wasn't on crutches so he didn't break anything.
One thing that always lets this scene down for me is how easily the infected broke in. What were those window boards made of, balsa wood?!?! Not to mention how quickly she turns after getting bitten, in the first film (and later in this one, it takes noticeably longer). Don't get me wrong, it's a GREAT film, and these are relatively minor details, but they're kind of annoying. It wouldn't be too hard to write the infected getting in without balsa wood planks.
i just thought the same thing hahaha. Seems like the virus also enhances strength, endurance, perception (random zombies spawning out of a hill) and hearing. Nonetheless its a great scene and I can only hope that 28 years later is somehow able to replicate this epicness
How long it takes to be infected by the virus seems to vary. In the opening scene of the first movie, in the lab, the first woman bitten by the infected chimp turns rather quickly. Maybe it has something to do with how healthy a person is or isn't.
@@Rich0927definitely to do with where you are infected and how much infected blood or saliva you are subjected to. Like Frank had just a small drop to the eye so it took a little longer. The girl at the start of both films had rather more blood or saliva enter there bloodstream.
I always just assumed the virus makes the infected numb to pain, so while they are breaking in, their limbs are probably broken and will probably bleed to death, but they don’t notice or care cause of the effects of the virus. We know from the first film that most of them starved to death cause they were so full of rage they could not fathom the idea to get food.
@@geedee1264Not once did Don ever choose his job over his family. He was emotional at figuring out his wife’s survival and so visited her and in a moment of stupidity and unawareness kissed her. He didn't know she was a carrier for the rage virus at all since he had never seen one. But even still that didn't clear him of stupidity. If you’re wife who you thought was dead is strapped to a chair, alone in a room she clearly has something wrong with her. But the point still stands Don isn’t as guilty as people make him out to be. He also clearly loved his kids and wife even if she made a stupid decision to try and save a kid she just met.
Nah it was the woman who peeked out the wall. You could tell that they reacted to HER not the boy entering the home. Had she just stayed inside and left them alone, they might have surrounded the house but they wouldn’t have begun their attack.
@@Yukis.aviation If the boy didn't raise the alert to this survival group, maybe the woman would have just sit and be quite enjoying her meal instead of peeking outside wondering what's going on.
I've always pondered on what if the kid either missed the house and kept running or simply ignored it, would the chasing zombies stop and investigate the house or ignore it completely?
It's a crazy thought kid keeps running the house people survive the mc's wife never becomes a carrier never infect her husband kids never get infected virus never gets across the channel
They would investigate, maybe they could smell the food on the table or the people on the house, those aren't brainless zombies who came back from the grave, these are people who were infected recently with rage, so they still have the intelligence and senses of the human being
It wasn't the kid that got them killed it was Karen, when she peeked through the window had they stayed quiet the zombies probably wouldn't have noticed them
you can kind of tell theyre going to have a scene similar to this with the mother at the start.... I reckon the main character is going to be one of her kids who survived
@@whatisreddin7367 I've been wondering if Aaron Taylor Johnson will be one of them. His character could easily have been the one asking "Mum, what's going on?"
Well their biggest weakness was they were still mortal beings who could die from pretty much anything and often did. My assumption is 28 years later, whatever is left has evolved to be more intelligent, as was sort of hinted at in 28 weeks and maybe not so angry enough that they consume food and water.
I imagine they’re similar to how Don was when he became infected, since he demonstrated a higher level of intelligence than the other rage zombies; infecting other people instead of outright killing them in order to spread the virus faster, avoiding the fires when the air force bombed London, stalking his children from a distance and waiting until they were alone in the subway before he attacked them. There was even a brief moment where it looked like he recognised Tammy before she shot him dead. Still, it’ll be interesting to see how the infected have lasted 28 years later!
@@joyduhI think you’re on the right path with the Don idea. So many people seem to believe Jim is gonna be a big mutant rage zombie but I can’t see it personally. I think the “Don” type of infected and what is gonna be left over from the second outbreak. Maybe we will see both the “Don” types and the “regular” ones too
I wonder how they'll manage to explain the fact they're not dying out of starvation. Because the original movie shows the infected eventually succumbing to hunger.
You know it’s one of the greatest horror movie openings ever when it’s many years old and has been reuploaded countless times but already had 600k views in less than 5 days
This scene is incredible. The rest of the movie was ok but no where close to the original. I hope the 28 years is good. Has Danny Boyle again. I remember the first time I saw this scene I was on the edge of my seat. The infected in this franchise are second to none.
@@tobyoneil1969she was yelling "don't help us". You can see even to the last, Don was looking back and hesitates to escape on his own. Then the wife reminds him and yells "Doooon't!!" So he stops looking back
This is frightening, just how things can easily fall apart from that highly aggressive virus. It also shows when the husband couldn’t think to save his wife out of pure fear and survival.
She killed them by pushing to answer the door and wanted to kill him by going for the kid again. He may not have been consciously thinking it but subconsciously, that betrayal from weak sentimentality, helped him make that split second decision to bail. Plus a ton of lizard brain flight 😂
Imagine being a survivor in a nearby house and just hearing seeing all your neighbouring survivors getting raided and chased by infected. I'd be shitting my pant
Probably increases their survival rate but not that much considering the infected will still roam around their area looking for the kid. All it takes is once sound to trigger them
@@choppercam2806the zombie at 1:20 was scanning the house, the moment he spots the girl they break into the house, if they would just shut and make 0 noise in an amount of time, they could have survived
@rengokusan3855 youve commented 4 times "@rengokusan3855 11 hours ago Don is probably the most realistic character because you can actually feel his fear in the inside telling him to run" heres one of the others
3:55 tip: don’t say “Don,Help us!” Because there’s a chance Don might think that you said “Don’t help us!” you should instead try saying “Help us,Don!”
That guy was trying to tell her to come on, but she insisted on going back for the child, so homie said"you know what, eff both of you" 😂. Then she has the nerve to stand in the window wondering why he deserted her I really don't blame him one bit
Geedee bro that was writer nonsense to get the movie to get to a more intense part in reality don did nothing wrong in the beginning until the writers made him make the dumbest decision in movie history just to make the plot move forward so it was just sloppy writing that made him kiss his wife but in the beginning as I said he did the best he could and his wife got herself killed
@@TG-nq5qz Geedee has been saying the same shit on all the comments lmao. Don was dumb, yeah, but that doesn't make the rest of characters here any less idiotic
People talk about Don like he’s a coward but he really isn’t, dude stood and fought to buy everyone else time and his wife, who put them all in that position in the first place, decides some kid is more important to her than her husband, he made the correct decision so that he could see his children again
For those who don’t know they had the original director from the first one shoot this entire scene to bring back that intense feeling . That’s why it’s more gritty compared to the rest of the film and it feels like it’s part of the first one .
they probably would have survived the initial outbreak if it wasnt for that kid. In 28 days they survive in the countryside at the end in a way less secure house just because the infected starved to death
@@whatisreddin7367 In the first movie they ended up in scotland or at least so far north that population levels were low plus the infected were starving by this point. The boy in this scene said he came from Sandford but it's not clear which Sandford, either way it's southern england I believe so the population levels would've been much higher hence why they had to lay low and cover everything up. That's my take on it.
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Don wisely told them not to open the door.
When his wife overruled him, he took responsibility and the personal risk to do it.
When they broke in, he did most of the hand to hand fighting and even rescued the Asian guy.
When she wouldn't come with him to the next room and instead went for the boy and got trapped, there were multiple infected between him and her so he could do nothing.
Then after he escaped and the Asian guy with the boat that he previously rescued fell in, he still tried to help him despite being swamped with infected.
He's made out to be a craven coward who ran, but he went above and beyond what was reasonable.
I don't know where he's made out to be a coward in the film. The whole point of this scene is that it's not his doing, it's just his primal instincts to do so. The same way it was Alice's instinct to take in and protect the child. Neither are wrong in doing what they did, because it ultimately was out of their control.
Exactly.
@Vegito_Fanpage You might have a fair point there. But my take on it was that he was cast as a coward who abandoned his family.
Though, it may just have been his sense of guilt at doing what was reasonable.
I felt that the end of the movie was the writer/director giving the audience a sense of 'payback'.
@@NewsRedial Yeah. The film was subtle enough about it, but I do think that's how they were trying to paint Don, with how they framed him when his children lashed out at him for lying to them and when he tried to apologise to Alice and said "he was scared."
@@NewsRedial Ooh, actually yeah now that I think about it that ending bit does kind of feel like that. But yeah, I always assumed it was just meant to be his guilt eating away at him even though what he did was perfectly reasonable, like survivor guilt.
Don is everyone on survival mode. Told them to not open the door. Bro was bashing heads in w a crowbar for as long as possible. Still ran and held his wife’s hand but she was like noooo let me find this kid. Genuinely tried his best in that given situation. Bros cardio is peak tho.
Don was in the right ngl, opening that door was a mistake
The original changed the game for me. I said if zombies are slow I'll survive like hell, but once they started running, I said...👀...I'm dead 😂
Number 1 rule of Zombieland 😂
The biggest lesson here is to never listen to women.
Don is repeatedly, repeatedly shown to be an absolute coward in this film, he's so survival smart is he?? He kisses his infected wife and destroys the world
Don is probably the most realistic character because you can actually feel his fear in the inside telling him to run
Run Forest! Run!😂😂😂
A great actor
Carlyle is a more than decent actor. Shame that he was given a role as Bond villain only to be lousily written (he did well in that scene with Elektra and in that scene with Bond in Kazakhstan, but otherwise it was a not so appealing character, not his fault)... althought Bond producers did Waltz even dirtier than Carlyle 😨
People who would’ve done the same thing
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@carlosayala5161 he also played Hitler in a Netflix series.
This feels like a complete short film on its own that is separate from the rest of the movie, simply because it is on another level of quality.
Rumour is that Danny Boyle directed this part of the movie, the rest of the movie was done by the credited director so that may be why
That would explain it then
when the film Started I had real high hopes this scene was fantastic but to be honest this is the only scene I can even remember from this forgettable sequal. I have high hopes for the 3rd installment @@SpiderBatFan
Yeah because the rest of the move fucking SUCKS
@@SpiderBatFan i think its confirmed more than rumorued
@@SpiderBatFanyou can definitely tell, the camera work is identical to when Jim killed all of the soldiers in the first film.
The UK countryside is one of the coolest settings for a zombie outbreak, so much beautiful scenery and landscape tainted with a lingering sense of imminent dread.
The sudden Covid 19 pandemic in UK gave me that really creepy foreboding feeling the amount of lives it took including my father was horrifying 😢
@@Yodaspirit45I’m really sorry about your father. Such a cruel time and so many lives lost and ruined. Wishing you al the best
@@Yodaspirit45so sorry for your loss. Blessings to you and your family.
Days was UK this was US
@@yan7359 Thanks
That shot of him running nd you can see the zombies coming down the hill behind him, is one of the greatest shots in cinema to me
Absolutely terrifying to be in that situation.
The infected which are already fast got an extra burst of speed running down hill on his flank. 😵
It feels like u r in it!
Absolutely agree!
A brilliant scene.
Its so realistic because all of their carefully laid plans just immediately fall apart
its easy to practice when theres no adrenaline involved. But when your life is on the line for real its another story.
@@demonjmh28 years later drops in June 2025 can’t wait to go see it in theaters..
The boy alert the horde 🤦
A solid Trojan ad tbh
@@kevintorres9350 yes i know everyone and their mother seen it
Rule 1: Don't play hero.
Rule 2: Cardio is your best friend.
All these rules are enforced by the realism and tension of the scenes and the raw power of the situations.
I was thinking about rule 2 while watching it.
And don't forget to double tap.
NOt so sure about rule 2. You dont have so much food and space for training
@@guynonsense4157 you do right now
I feel so bad for Jacob, like he managed to escape quietly toward the dock and about to set off till Don comes barreling in with the entire damn herd of infected😭
And then the poor guy misses the most important jump of his life and dies
you can see infected chasing Jacob in the background, as Don jumps out the window @4:20
@@maxflares8888 that's the infected pouring into that breach where Don tried to hold off the infected.
@@maxflares8888U gotta be blind . If they was chasing Jacob they would be there before the other dude . 😂 They was just going into the house .
@@DarkassassiN3102 you can see 2-3 zombies running away from the house
What I love about this scene is that Don actually shows enormous bravery and courage trying to fight off the initial infected. It's not until he realises how f*cked the situation is until he realises that there's almost no hope for any of them and that saving his wife is totally futile. I don't think Don is a coward.
I agree with you. Just to go back and forth about it, I think the core problem decision that he makes is when the infected burst through the door to the upstairs bedroom. At that moment he either has to throw himself into them to give his wife and the kid a chance, or he closes the door. I think 99.99% of the time it doesn't even save them if he does it, and they don't make it to the boat even if he does. I guess there is at least some immorality in not giving your life for theirs regardless though. Idealistically I think most of us would like to believe we would fight and die for our children or loved ones. In that single moment, Don chooses not to. Again, the only real reasonable decision available to him.
i think the infected already smelled the candles and food and heard faint voices coming from the inside of the cottage, but was still waiting for that "neurotic stimulus" (seeing an uninfected) which then would kicked off the rage.
@@mcbrians.8508good theory, in the comics we find out the infected are highly susceptible to smell
The AUDACITY to ask for help after ignoring your husband who you've been married to for years, in a life or death situation, to help a boy you've known for like 2 minutes, is crazy.
Don did nothing wrong here.
Yup. It’s either you or them, never be the Hero in these situations.
It doesn’t matter if they opened the door or not at that point, he attracted them there. Only difference is that they would have felt horrible. You see how easy they broke through that window?
Fact is the guys screaming his lungs off not very good in a zombie film. Letting him in means he’s gonna eat your whole supply
@@HisNameIsEL are you implying the zombies wouldnt have found them? These things could spot you if you make the wrong eye contact. And that whole town was filled with armies of them. They were dead one way or another.
he even held off the first wave of infected
I love how when this first came out. Everyone called him a coward. Now that everyone is back because of the trailer. We are now older and wiser. Thus can understand why he did what he did.
He is definitely not a coward
Yeah he's not a coward at all he even stayed on the livingroom to fight. He fled when there was no other logical choice
Exactly. I'm a pretty empathetic woman who loves children, but I'm watching this and thinking: yeah, no i'm not helping this screaming child. 1 life at the risk of 6?! It's one thing if they had an underground bunker that they all could have immediately gone into after helping the boy to wait until the infected left, but no. Not wasting the lives of the group.
we would all do the same...self-preservation is a survival instinct
This is EXACTLY how is see it. What a difference 18 years makes haha.
One of the greatest openings to a horror movie.
OK,but I'm going with Zack Snyder's reboot of Dawn OF THE DEAD.
Ur just arguing just to argue. Grow up @@RobertParks-h7r
I'll throw Day of the Dead into the ring.
Visually, it's a spectacle. But there's something about the exchange between John and McDermott being able to hear the sound of the countless massing zombies moans over the noise of the helicopter's engine, as they start to rouse and shuffle relentlessly towards the chopper, that still gives me the creeps almost 40 years (damn, I'm old!) later.
If only the whole movie was as good as this opening, this could have probably been better than 28 days. The characters are so stupid later on.
FUCKING TRUE 🤘🏻😤🤘🏻
4:10 the boy "reee"ing is so real. I think the actor kid was scared shitless for real of those zombie extras.
Kid sounded like a dying pig. There's no way he wasn't scared for real 😂
LMAO Surprised the poor kid didn't quit acting after that.
It was more like shrieking but reeing sounds funny tho 😂
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How do you know it was the boy and not the infected?
sad fact: Geoff (the kind elderly man) was played by Garfield Morgan. This was his very last film role before his passing due to cancer in 2009.
Oh man you ruined my day. On a note he was a really good character telling his wife to go.
@agentaded yes. I actually knew this fact about 2 years ago. I randomly searched "28 weeks later fact".
Rip Geoff
It’s crazy at the last moment he looks back at the farm and there’s no infected anywhere. Almost like it was a terrible dream.
Pause the video at 6:37 and look closely at the river, you can see them still chasing him
@@bmorebirdsnest92that’s crazy never paid attention to it
@@bmorebirdsnest92 I suspect they were talking about the shot prior to yours, looking back at the cottage and then closer the window where his wife was last seen. It just looks like a peaceful rural home shot without the outbreak's context.
@@bmorebirdsnest92 couldn't see it lol
is he Modrić?
I feel bad for jacob. The dude was about to escape until his boy led 50 infected right to him.
Ha! I never looked at it like that!
Exactly. He was probably whistling too at how easy it was to escape unnoticed.
And then Don and his friends happened.
Talk about a party pooper.
Tbf, Jacob had taken way too long getting the boat ready, although he was killed for plot reasons, in reality, I think someone in that moment, wouldn't do that miss step and slip lol
@@ACRus19 Yeah, Jacob was just chilling 😂 he should have been moving much faster to get ready
@@ACRus19 Exactly. I'm landing in that boat even if it meant smashing my face into the metal and breaking my teeth lol whatever it takes
Don choosing self preservation was the only thing that made sense. What was he going to do? Kill multiple infected with his bare hands while keeping their blood out of his eyes and mouth so he doesn't also turn? Don't get it twisted, he wasn't a coward or malicious. When Jacob fell out of the boat, he could of easily sped off and left him to his fate. However, he reached into the water and tried to help him before he was dragged under. Sometimes there can be no heroes. Most of the time, its just about you taking care of yourself and hoping people around you can do the same.
he did everything right. His wife didnt listen to him in order to save the boy. If she listened to him she would have been fine.
@@YoubyMcRUclipsrFace The boy could have been saved if he'd stayed quiet.
@@YoubyMcRUclipsrFaceExactly. The only true interpretation is that the wife got herself killed due to motherly instinct, while Don simply knew there was no saving her and in that moment chose flight as a survival instinct (which saved his life). He showed the complete opposite of cowardice for the entire scene until that moment, where he had no chance of winning, and it was basically everyone else in the scene that messes up and makes mistakes. Don was just a better surviver. Jacob was lucky to even make it to the dock. What's interesting to me is that both of those choices is what causes the second outbreak. If the wife survived she would not be an asymptomatic host, and if Don stayed and died then he would not get infected later and cause the second outbreak.
Yes and to think the time of the infection was very quick. That means its a very reasonable thing to do
he also fought a few infected in the house while everyone else ran. hes an mvp.
“Oh fuck Oh shit oh shit oh shit” prolly the most realistic reaction to what just happened.
Don's wife is beyond crazy, look the situation SHE put herself into and still wanted help from him in that impossible situation
No man he should have distracted the infected with shiny baubles and then grabbed her and phased through the walls
Yet it was Don who spread the virus worldwide but yeah..The wife..all her fault 😂😂
@@geedee1264 After he got infected by his wife. So yeah, it was all her fault.
@@geedee1264Actually it was the kids fault. They inherited the mom’s stupidity and went out. Now they brought their infected mom with them which shouldn’t have happened.
@@noone-qu5ecincorrect actually Don spread it the Kid was infected but didn't turn just like the mom
Don is no coward, there is NO way he could have saved his wife, that one zombie was charging at him and he closed the door, seconds later 3 more followed. His ONLY way out was through the window and escape.
You dont melee those zombies, they are raging and if you get hold of one, they vomit blood on you, turning you instantly
He did the best he could do. Without him holding them off they would've all been swarmed downstairs. They were a doomed group, two men, two old people and two women and a limited food supply with no hope of escape. As he said they were barely surviving.
He literally just melee'd three of em at the start of the home invasion but yeah its taking a huge risk
Don is the reason the World fell to infection, did you watch the actual movie ffs
@@geedee1264 stfo we were only referring to the opening scene
Screw that I would’ve done everything I could to save my wife lol he is a coward😂
Danny Boyle is responsible for the first movie. He directed this opening section to the sequel but another director took over the rest of the movie following the canal escape scene. Danny is back for the 3rd movie and he won’t let us down.
Makes sense as to why is the opening is probably the best part of the film and the rest is downhill
But what is the reason?
According to a producer of this movie (Enrique Lavigne), the other director did most of the opening except the river scenes
The rest of the movie is also just awful.
Interesting, I could definitely see that. The beginning of this movie was great.
This is STILL one of the very best opening minutes of a horror film. So wildly intense. Every unplanned decision one makes can either save you or get you bit.
100% agree, the music is has so much build behind it. The wild speed and aggression of those monsters. It's just chilling, best zombie/rage virus film out there in my opinion.
British film. Very dark. As always.@@jimbaker4277
@@jimbaker4277They had to make that change or it wouldn't work. The zombie genre was stagnant, and it wasn't too good to begin with. Maybe a rotting corpse isn't a big threat, so you gotta suspend disbelief by either nerfing the characters (classic) or buffing the enemies (28 days). I always hated seeing someone running from a zombie that's not moving fast at all, then they trip and we get a bite jumpscare. Land of the Dead did offer an interesting take though with them learning how to use guns.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun agree with nerfing characters being so classic and annoying
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun There was actually a full study done as a combat scenario and it determined that even in countries where guns arent readily available, if the zombies were dawn of dead/walking dead types, we would win pretty quickly.
The background music enhanced the terror of this scene, it feels like hopelessness vibe. Imagine being chased by a fast running infected, and gotta give props to that shot where it had the perspective of the infected running, it just shows how intense they run chasing for their prey.
I like that clip from 4:53 that shows the zombie cam prospective. The zombie running reminds me of someone from work.
Don really held his own until he lost that crowbar
Kinda surprised by that tbh
he's not a highly trained professional unlike Gordon Freeman
@@borisslavk01nolastname91 underated comment
@@borisslavk01nolastname91+and he doesn't have a very special set of skills like Liam Neeson
Insane reference. 😂@@borisslavk01nolastname91
People may call Don a coward, but deep down we would all do the same thing
If his wife had listened to him, they would have both made it out alive. She put him in an impossible situation.
And honestly, there was next to nothing Don could have done at that point to save Alice. Don would have been killed or infected with certainty if he had lunged in at that infected man inside the room, and Alice and the kid had no way out with more infected in the only exit door ready to swarm them, and the other door that they went through leading to a closed room. If Don had lunged in, he would've just been throwing his life away for nothing. At least by Don running, SOMEONE made it out alive and at least ONE OF Andy and Tammy's parents stood a chance at making it back to them.
@@ecthox-1mork909 as granddad said in "the Boondocks" while being chased by hundreds of Stinkmeaners while leaving everyone to die in a very similar way we see hear: sorry boys, cheers
Everyone went out alive anyway, the zombies are not zombies, but living people carrying and spreading a disease.
Not if you have a family. Most would die to save their kids.
I don't always build a zombie safe house, but when I do, I use the finest locally sourced heirloom balsa wood.
Hey now that’s an old house
Wooden fasteners?
those zombies are also stupidly strong, I guess the body dont have the normal limiter when your dead.
@@angerskarin9222They are not dead but infected raging humans
@@angerskarin9222 they arent dead
Can we just take the time to give Geoff (the old man) the credit he deserves for pullin' a Hodor and trying to buy Jacob and his wife some time to escape
Its too bad she wouldn't listen.
And that Jacob died anyway.
@@Reoh0z this film is an essay on "leave the women at home and let the men go out and hunt" because god damn are they an anchor
I'd say Hodor did the Geoff. However credits are deserved
Im here after seeing the 28 years later trailer!!!! This is still one of the most terrifying openings to a film ever
1.) Don’t be a hero
2.) Cardio
Both saved his ass here.
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Is your life really that empty that you'd re-post the top comment in order to get likes? What a sad, little life, Jane.
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Lame you can't be original. 😂
This is without a doubt the best opening scene from a horror movie, ever.
Relax.
@abstractronnie do you have a favorite opening?
Scream is probably my favorite opening though.
@@WhirlingMusic Scream is a classic for sure, but nowhere does it evoke the same emotions that this opening scene does.
The only reason it's good is because it uses house in a heartbeat, used better in 28 days later
it's always hard to staying alive with childrens and old people sadly 😢
So in a real scenario, they’d be fuked cuz ppl will ditch em in a heartbeat
kids don't understand and old are too slow
Survival doesn't care about empathy
@@SamuelBlack84your not wrong at all
😂and fatties. If this apocolypse scenario went down, the few people that survived would hafta be like Olympic level runners.
This whole sequence is the perfect motivation as to why it’s great to practice cardio
Even more so to have a reliable means of escape, the infected run like freaking track stars.
@@wolfgangill9717 real, u cannot outrun the infected
To be completely honest, I love how trying to be heroic or having attachments is what got these people got. You can’t spend time arguing or looking for someone who’s hiding or else you’re dead, you just have to keep moving which Don did.
And then he destroyed the world , yeah, it all worked out great here
Ironically, human's abbility to feel emotions and empathy is both our greatest strength and weakness.
Strength, because humans are social by nature, and the larger amount of them gathered, the better they fare against the world.
Weakness, because that exactly is what leads to people taking irrational decisions based on emotions instead of logic, which ultimately leads to us making terrible choices.
The 28 years later trailer brought me here.
Me too. Im back in the world now. Did you see this movie?
Same here
Harry Potter bought me here :O
me too
This was the scariest sh!t I ever saw in my life.
about time someone upload the full version
I absolutely adore this scene because you can see how every character responds differently in their panic from the very moment Lauren gets bit. Don immediately entered fight mode, Alice's motherly instincts immediately kicked in and she went for the kid, some of them ran, some froze.
No one is at fault for their reaction. It was a completely fair reaction for Alice to go try get the child because a mother more than likely wouldn't just leave a child to die, no matter what, even if it's not their child. At the same time, Don's reaction of running once the infected made it into the room was also completely fair, because there was nothing more he could do and he didn't have any relationship to the boy that Alice instinctually had. Then finally, Alice was totally fair in screaming after Don because, I mean who wouldn't given the situation? She was as entitled to feel betrayed and abandoned as Don was to feel there was nothing he could do but run.
Youre wrong. Everything happened because of Alice. And even after shit hits the fan she just bangs on the window crying instead of trying to open it and escape.
@@GorrnLord Easy to judge the decisions someone makes off adrenaline and instinct when you're not there.
@@GorrnLord They were doomed the moment that kid showed up at their door. He literally told them that there was an entire horde on his heels. In what world is the situation Alice’s fault, or any of their faults? This opening scene is horrific because it shows you the reality of disaster scenarios. You can do everything right and still die because of circumstances completely out of your control.
@@rhyswilliams9778 If they don't open the door then the horde shows up and the kid runs, then the horde chases the kid. We have no idea if the horde would have approached the house or known that people were in. If the group were smart they'd have just remained quiet and hidden. Both films have plenty of examples of infected not noticing people inside homes when they are quiet.
Nahh she isn't entitled or need to felt betrayed lmao
2:51 I like how Jacob, even in this tense moment, stays to wait for them, but since she doesn't want to leave, he gets angry, growls, and goes up like, "Well, I'll stay with you two, but if the infected come in, I'll be safe."
Even in his very limited screen time I thought Jacob was an interesting character because he kind of embodied the “selfish/mean” survivor stereotype in these movies but yet when push came to shove he always tried to help the others. He was the first one to run and try and help Karen the blonde girl who he was just being mean towards a few moments prior, he tried to stay and help the old lady up the ladder for as long as possible even after the infected burst into the room and when Don arrived at the boat he let Don jump on first so he could finish untying it and pushed the boat away from the dock.
I have to give Don and Jacob credits they trying to invest it keep them safe but they both failed because of that one kid brought the whole town after them
I feel like Jacob would have been safe in there if he put something heavy on that door I don't know maybe it's just me
Absolutely terrifying, 28 days and weeks are so gritty and realistic 😨
here after watching 28 years later trailer with that eerie old recording chant
It's "Boots" by rudard kipling
We can’t wait!
Boots...boots... Boots...
Theirs no discharge in the war❗️❗️❗️
I thought he said boobs
Don, embodiment of 💯NOPE energy 😂
That last look back at the window is quite haunting. Survival always has a price.
suicide always is suicide his wife killed herself
Yeah, the price being..him infecting and destroying the world 😂😂😂
Don was fuck it we ball up until he lost his crowbar.
@@Reoh0zhe even tried to save Jacob after he fell off the boat...
I dont fault Don at all. Like, what can you do in this situation? At a certain point you just have to run.
Just give em the 'ol 1 2
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That whole scene was women not listening and making stupid decisions. First the girl opens a crack which gave them away. Then johns wife disobey him over and over (then had the nerve to ask for help). Finally the old man's wife (sully) wouldn't accept his sacrifice for her slow azz and after he dies and she finally goes for the ladder what does she do? That's right begs Jacob for HELP, lol that's what your husband died trying to do.
Do you fault Don for spreading the virus to the entire world??? He abandoned her, kisses her, infects himself, kills her, destroys the world
"He did what anybody else would have done"
It's a bit like people are just trying to be contrarian
@@geedee1264That argument has nothing to do with this particular scene and/or the point the commenter was trying to make, But if we wanna talk about that and be technical on assigning blame here, I’d say in first is the stupid PETA group who unleashed that virus in the first movie, then Doctor who made the virus, and then the military in this movie who was so bloody incompetent that they not only didn’t stop or shoot the kids going into the red zone but to then not put multiple guards around someone who they KNOW is a carrier of said world-ravaging virus and then Don, who is ridiculously stupid for kissing someone that’s clearly strapped down to a bed that he knows got attacked. All in all, Don was dumb, but my god was everything avoidable if the military actually did their damn job in this movie.
I will always appreciate seeing this movie in theaters. No movie opening has ever had me even half as tense since.
Now THIS is how you shoot a film. This raw film style with minimal music makes these films superb. The camera is very shaky and you don’t see the infected crystal clear for too long which makes it just that much more scary.
Despite Don made a terrible mistake in his later life, he actually did his best to protect his wife and other survivors.
1. He insisted not to take the kid in to avoid getting detected by infected.
2. He killed three infected up close and personal.
3. He unintentionally saved his wife by running away, when he ran away from the cottage the infected chase him instead of killing his wife.
I would do the same but i let those rage zombies chase me for my love ones to survive hiding behind the closet while i climb above the roof or find nearest tree to climb. I dont have the cardio to run that far.
That is not what happened to his wife, she was dragged out of the window and (SPOILER alert) infected (although she came up as an asymptomatic carrier), infected people in "later's universe" are so vicious (it is called the Rage Virus) that it is so HIGHLY unlikely that they would not have bashed her skull even though, or precisely because, she did not become another infected raging murderer. Look at (again, SPOILER alert) what Don did to his wife once she infected him or, rather, he infected himself by kissing her, how many seconds did it take for him to squash her brains? That was some lousy writing, like, "hey, we need to bring back the virus but all infected are history, what do we do? That's it! Don's wife is infected but alive as an asymptomatic carrier! But, how did she survive? Meh, too much asking, she did and that's enough" 🤨
@@carlosayala5161 so she was not infected after this scene? She didn't turn?
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@@carlosayala5161the infected don’t always bash in the persons skull. The old man didn’t get his skull bashed in when they attack him as you see him turn . So there’s no reason as to why his wife wouldn’t have simply been bit by them and then left . Remember the kid was also there so maybe they went more for him?
Boots boots boots boots coming up and down again
that fit the 28 years later trailer so eerily well!
I love the new trailer for 28 yrs later,but a lot of fans like me hate that over narration poetry etc,and the music wasn't good.What stood out was no dialogue,but really creepy and great visual landscape shots.
They also had the same scene of the infected running down the hill led by a mutated one
There's no discharge in a war
Men! Men! Men! Men!
"JOHHHHHHNNNNNN! Help us!"
Seriously? See ya, lady.
Stay gold pony boy
It's Don.
Yeah, Don, help us. After everything you told me not to do, I did it stubbornly
Typical woman, aye? What can you do..
bwahaha
This movie always scared me as a kid. And now I see it again, I need to make sure I start getting cardio in
After watching this opening scene, this proves that Don got better common sense & survival instinct than most TWD characters. Lol 😂
Don using rule #6 from zombie land... Don't be a hero!
And rule #1 Cardio!
@@maranoblet Which in this case is most important as these zombies are superfast. Its funny how those rules make total sense lol.
A good opening but the film comes of the rails near the end.
The original is a far superior offering and hopefully next years movie will be as good.
Not really, i think Jeremy Renner and the doctor save the second half, for me it doesnt come of the rails, it declines a bit but the chopper scene and jeremy's sacrifice are peak cinema.
Having Americans and their code red protocols was annoying
@@dancho117It's a decent film but there are far more gaps in logic that are a bit hard to ignore. In the first film no one knew about the virus, making the spread logical. In the second film they bring an infected person into the ONLY major resettlement colony, they leave her unguarded, and the janitor is able to get access to her... It's a bit silly really when you think about it. The first film handles the outbreak so much better. Activists absolutely could cause a pandemic by prioritising emotion (saving animals) over logic (scientist screaming that the chimp is infected). I still think 28W later is a cool film with good actors, but it doesn't hold a candle to the consistently high bar of 28D.
@@dancho117 They also cram everyone into one room (super dumb) and have minimal guards when the outbreak occurs. The obviously sensible decision would be to lock everyone down in their rooms until the infected were killed. You'd think this would have been considered ahead of time. Just a lot more suspension of disbelief in 28W
Yeah I always immediately lose interest after the sniper team scene. It became way too much movie logic afterward
That scene still haunts me 🥺
As a horror fanatic, and someone who has seen almost all horror media. I’ve been telling people for years. This is the scariest 6 minutes in all cinema history.
Most intense for sure. Just think in real life having this happen to you
5:10 Bruh that sprint from the middle zombie guy was fucking insane, thats terrible to behold in a real situation! And those shoulder camera shots! Love them!
Man, I hope they have the grittiness like this and 28 Days Later in the new film!
I think the scariest part is the fact that the infected aren’t your traditional zombie you’ve seen in movies before.
They’re not a reanimated corpses that consume the humans, they’re living people who are in an endless state of rage. They’re just animals who just wanna kill
Indeed, which is why I didn’t like the fact the infected can be seen biting people in this film. They never did in 28 Days, only mauled them to death or infected them inadvertently.
Yes it's a good twist on the zombie formula.
Agreed, my favorite zombie concept. Also scarier because a man-made virus that causes murderous rage & rabid behavior is more believable, plus they're really fast and jacked on adrenaline
I've met people with that exact same mindset
You have absolutely no idea how frightening that is
@@smhht ...yet biting is very animalistic and certainly a weapon, in fact specifically banned from any fighting sport...in the film In Hell, for example, spoiler ofc, at the end of his process of becoming a mindless raging animal to survive in the prison, the protagonist ends up killing one of his opponents in a fight by biting his neck...powerful scene.
Also it is cool that via biting they can infect you very efficiently, so yeah, vampires bite for blood, zombies to eat you, these motherfuckers to infect you.
Who remembers when the boondocks did the running away scene 0:44 for grandpa ? 😂😂😂
I was just thinking that especially with Ruckus and the boat at the end
@ - yeah 😂 the whole scene I think Riley and Huey were left behind in the house and grandpa ran and was being chased by stinkmeaner or however you spell his name 😂 classics shit man
Never realized that
Lmao uncle ruckus 😂😂😂
1:06 any body notice he said miles instead of kilometers?
Don only did two things wrong.
1. Lie to his children about what happened to the mom.
2. Break the moms quarantine to see her.
With the music, the zombie chase, the suspense look on him... This is just pure gold intro
Don was a beast in this movie. Even infected he was the smartest one.
4:17 You can feel his ankle broke down but his fear telling him to run
Can’t run on a broke ankle especially that fast he probably just sprang it but even that is unbelievable
@@sonofodin1044 Adrenaline and fight or flight can mask pain long enough so you can get out of dodge.
@@CyrilSneer123Yes but it can’t unbreak bones. If he snapped his bones for example, no amount of adrenaline will prevent his leg turning to jelly.
@@smhht It wasn't broken. He twisted it, maybe sprained it. In a life or death situation you would not feel it until you've calmed down. Heck even some broken bones can be walked on if you don't feel the pain. Anyway when he turned up at the sanctuary in london he wasn't on crutches so he didn't break anything.
@@CyrilSneer123 I’m aware it wasn’t broken, I have watched the film. I’m responding to all the talk of broken bones in this thread.
One thing that always lets this scene down for me is how easily the infected broke in.
What were those window boards made of, balsa wood?!?!
Not to mention how quickly she turns after getting bitten, in the first film (and later in this one, it takes noticeably longer).
Don't get me wrong, it's a GREAT film, and these are relatively minor details, but they're kind of annoying.
It wouldn't be too hard to write the infected getting in without balsa wood planks.
i just thought the same thing hahaha. Seems like the virus also enhances strength, endurance, perception (random zombies spawning out of a hill) and hearing. Nonetheless its a great scene and I can only hope that 28 years later is somehow able to replicate this epicness
How long it takes to be infected by the virus seems to vary. In the opening scene of the first movie, in the lab, the first woman bitten by the infected chimp turns rather quickly. Maybe it has something to do with how healthy a person is or isn't.
These British infected are not like those slacker American "Dawn of the Dead" style zombies!!!!
@@Rich0927definitely to do with where you are infected and how much infected blood or saliva you are subjected to. Like Frank had just a small drop to the eye so it took a little longer. The girl at the start of both films had rather more blood or saliva enter there bloodstream.
I always just assumed the virus makes the infected numb to pain, so while they are breaking in, their limbs are probably broken and will probably bleed to death, but they don’t notice or care cause of the effects of the virus. We know from the first film that most of them starved to death cause they were so full of rage they could not fathom the idea to get food.
At 3:55 the Wife chose a boy (stranger that she just met) over her husband. Interesting choice.
@@IamAubreyAnderson she chose the boy when he banged on the door
Don chose his job over his family and literally, LITERALLY, led to the infection of the entire world
@@geedee1264 UK and France aren't the entire world.
@@geedee1264Not once did Don ever choose his job over his family. He was emotional at figuring out his wife’s survival and so visited her and in a moment of stupidity and unawareness kissed her. He didn't know she was a carrier for the rage virus at all since he had never seen one. But even still that didn't clear him of stupidity. If you’re wife who you thought was dead is strapped to a chair, alone in a room she clearly has something wrong with her. But the point still stands Don isn’t as guilty as people make him out to be.
He also clearly loved his kids and wife even if she made a stupid decision to try and save a kid she just met.
This is exactly how a situation like this would go down. That's what I love about these movies. It just showed us the truth.
that kid gave them their death penalty!
Nah it was the woman who peeked out the wall. You could tell that they reacted to HER not the boy entering the home. Had she just stayed inside and left them alone, they might have surrounded the house but they wouldn’t have begun their attack.
@@Yukis.aviation Maybe, it seemed pretty apparent that they knew that the boy was there though.
@@Yukis.aviation If the boy didn't raise the alert to this survival group, maybe the woman would have just sit and be quite enjoying her meal instead of peeking outside wondering what's going on.
Nah. There’s no way that kid managed to create that much distance between himself and that group of infected and for them to know exactly where he is.
No good deed goes unpunished
I've always pondered on what if the kid either missed the house and kept running or simply ignored it, would the chasing zombies stop and investigate the house or ignore it completely?
It's a crazy thought kid keeps running the house people survive the mc's wife never becomes a carrier never infect her husband kids never get infected virus never gets across the channel
They would investigate, maybe they could smell the food on the table or the people on the house, those aren't brainless zombies who came back from the grave, these are people who were infected recently with rage, so they still have the intelligence and senses of the human being
A bit of time has obviously passed between the boy coming in and the attack so it can't be that they saw him go in
It wasn't the kid that got them killed it was Karen, when she peeked through the window had they stayed quiet the zombies probably wouldn't have noticed them
@kaz9781 is her name actually karen
Nearly 18 years later, This is STILL one of the best opening of a zombie movie ever made!
10 years more and this comment would be much better xD
I think this is one of the best intros to any film ever created
5:00 When HR wants to hear the joke you made at work.
What a lovely family-comedy! Suitable for all wievers on thanksgiving or on a warm cosy christmas eve by the fireplace. So heartwarming and funny 🥰😘💙
Yes it's one to watch with grandma and the kids on Xmas day shortly after lunch.
Can’t wait to see 28 years trying to top this
you can kind of tell theyre going to have a scene similar to this with the mother at the start.... I reckon the main character is going to be one of her kids who survived
Well Alex garland and Danny boyle are behind the whole movie so I've got high hopes
28 months must come as prequel sequel sequel to 28 weeks, when humanity finally lost and the return to hunter gather began...
@@whatisreddin7367 I've been wondering if Aaron Taylor Johnson will be one of them. His character could easily have been the one asking "Mum, what's going on?"
makes you wondered how these rage zombies will evolve in 28 years later. They're already so capable.
As long as they ain't like the T-800s taking a shit ton of bullets just to take out one
Well their biggest weakness was they were still mortal beings who could die from pretty much anything and often did. My assumption is 28 years later, whatever is left has evolved to be more intelligent, as was sort of hinted at in 28 weeks and maybe not so angry enough that they consume food and water.
I imagine they’re similar to how Don was when he became infected, since he demonstrated a higher level of intelligence than the other rage zombies; infecting other people instead of outright killing them in order to spread the virus faster, avoiding the fires when the air force bombed London, stalking his children from a distance and waiting until they were alone in the subway before he attacked them. There was even a brief moment where it looked like he recognised Tammy before she shot him dead. Still, it’ll be interesting to see how the infected have lasted 28 years later!
@@joyduhI think you’re on the right path with the Don idea. So many people seem to believe Jim is gonna be a big mutant rage zombie but I can’t see it personally. I think the “Don” type of infected and what is gonna be left over from the second outbreak. Maybe we will see both the “Don” types and the “regular” ones too
I wonder how they'll manage to explain the fact they're not dying out of starvation.
Because the original movie shows the infected eventually succumbing to hunger.
this whole clip is filmed so intens, the camera movements, the music... I felt like I had to hold my breath . So well done.
You know it’s one of the greatest horror movie openings ever when it’s many years old and has been reuploaded countless times but already had 600k views in less than 5 days
Holy shit, someone finally does the whole opening sequence. Thank you
One of the most intense, well-done, horror sequences ever. My favorite zombie scene.
Also, Jacob got a raw deal.
this scene gave me soo much anxiety back in the day
This scene is incredible. The rest of the movie was ok but no where close to the original. I hope the 28 years is good. Has Danny Boyle again.
I remember the first time I saw this scene I was on the edge of my seat. The infected in this franchise are second to none.
I mean she screamed "don’t help us" he did the right thing.
"don help us"
@@tobyoneil1969she was yelling "don't help us".
You can see even to the last, Don was looking back and hesitates to escape on his own. Then the wife reminds him and yells "Doooon't!!" So he stops looking back
I say one thing for sure. Dude was determined to live by any means necessary.
This is frightening, just how things can easily fall apart from that highly aggressive virus. It also shows when the husband couldn’t think to save his wife out of pure fear and survival.
She killed them by pushing to answer the door and wanted to kill him by going for the kid again. He may not have been consciously thinking it but subconsciously, that betrayal from weak sentimentality, helped him make that split second decision to bail. Plus a ton of lizard brain flight 😂
He had no choice but to save himself
@@Skoorathe infected where already on the boys tail. They where following him the whole way to the house. Everyone in that building was dead already
@@tylercheung1194 The wife doomed them all with her repeated stupidities. She betrayed him multiple times and it passed his threshold of cope.
@@Skoorayeah, I hear ya. Time was not on their side, and she was too fixated on helping a kid over everyone else there.
I couldn't find this scene on youtube for ages, but once the trailer for 28 years drops it gets uploaded instantly
Imagine being a survivor in a nearby house and just hearing seeing all your neighbouring survivors getting raided and chased by infected. I'd be shitting my pant
"Oh look honey, the johnsons are getting killed." Sips Tea. "Heh... guess we'll raid them for supplies later then."
All the infected are then your problem as they wander around your area….
All the infected are then your probl£m as they wander around your area.
Probably one of THE best openings to an outbreak movie ever. Fast paced, terrifying and having you at the edge of your seat the entire time. Wow.
Can't blame Don here, I did the same thing when a dog chased me and my wife
You managed her
He let the dog have her..😂
😂🤣 omg
...you couldnt waterboard this out of me dude
1:20 Probably they all would've survived if that girl had not opened the window
Probably increases their survival rate but not that much considering the infected will still roam around their area looking for the kid.
All it takes is once sound to trigger them
Nah they would have been screwed no matter what, as soon as they as that kid turned up they were fucked
@@choppercam2806the zombie at 1:20 was scanning the house, the moment he spots the girl they break into the house, if they would just shut and make 0 noise in an amount of time, they could have survived
Bro this opening scene made me traumatized as a kid at 8 years old
dude how many times are you going to comment on this video
This made me do Track in School and still run at least a good mile or 3 just in case this ever happens cause I dunno bout all y'all but I'm gonna live
@@sethwilliams888 wdym i only commented once...
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Don is probably the most realistic character because you can actually feel his fear in the inside telling him to run"
heres one of the others
@@patrickpelletier4145 You will do good in the future. I mean just this scene alone cause you to do Track...Did you do well?
4:59
This scene is something else man, this made logic go out the window in my young mind and made me terrified of "fast zombies" 😂
3:55 tip: don’t say “Don,Help us!” Because there’s a chance Don might think that you said “Don’t help us!” you should instead try saying “Help us,Don!”
I thought about the subtitles were like “Don! Help us.” or “Don! Help us!” what she said.
Amazing way to open a movie
That guy was trying to tell her to come on, but she insisted on going back for the child, so homie said"you know what, eff both of you" 😂. Then she has the nerve to stand in the window wondering why he deserted her
I really don't blame him one bit
And then everything goes back to normal then he starts another infection that destroys the world..yeah..Don did nothing wrong then 😂😂😂
@@geedee1264he didnt do anything wrong in this scene
Geedee bro that was writer nonsense to get the movie to get to a more intense part in reality don did nothing wrong in the beginning until the writers made him make the dumbest decision in movie history just to make the plot move forward so it was just sloppy writing that made him kiss his wife but in the beginning as I said he did the best he could and his wife got herself killed
@@TG-nq5qz
Geedee has been saying the same shit on all the comments lmao.
Don was dumb, yeah, but that doesn't make the rest of characters here any less idiotic
Robert Carlyle is fantastic!!
People talk about Don like he’s a coward but he really isn’t, dude stood and fought to buy everyone else time and his wife, who put them all in that position in the first place, decides some kid is more important to her than her husband, he made the correct decision so that he could see his children again
This scene is so intense It's just the way it was shot And the actors British cinema Kicks the crap out of American Hollywood
coming from 28 years later trailer fucking yeaah
Smart of Joblo to put these clips out right after that banger of a trailer. Nostalgia, curiosity, and algorithms draws in many views and subs.
Motherf yeeeear letz gooooo
For those who don’t know they had the original director from the first one shoot this entire scene to bring back that intense feeling . That’s why it’s more gritty compared to the rest of the film and it feels like it’s part of the first one .
Eventually, infected will find their way to this family
But that kid really just gave them death sentence
they probably would have survived the initial outbreak if it wasnt for that kid. In 28 days they survive in the countryside at the end in a way less secure house just because the infected starved to death
@@whatisreddin7367 In the first movie they ended up in scotland or at least so far north that population levels were low plus the infected were starving by this point. The boy in this scene said he came from Sandford but it's not clear which Sandford, either way it's southern england I believe so the population levels would've been much higher hence why they had to lay low and cover everything up. That's my take on it.
I’m glad people aren’t calling Don a coward, plus he needed to survive to be there for his kids.
3:30 hearing those screams terrified me as a kid 🤣