“Best Zombie Movie Ever” This is the best zombie movie ever. No Romero film even comes close. Blows away Dawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead. It held your attention a lot better than “I am Legend.” Too bad the sequel sucked. I’m sick of waiting for another zombie flick that can hold a candle to “28 Days Later.” When will this finally be topped?

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Hailed as the most frightening film since The Exorcist, acclaimed Director Danny Boyle’s visionary take on zombie horror “isn’t just scary¡­it’s absolutely terrifying” (Access Hollywood).

An infirmary patient awakens from a coma to an empty room¡­in a vacant hospital¡­in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come¡­

The director/producer team that created Trainspotting turn their dynamic cinematic imaginations to the classic science fiction scenario of the last people on Earth. Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma to find London deserted–until he runs into a mob of crazed plague victims. He gradually finds other still-human survivors (including Naomie Harris), with whom he heads off across the abandoned countryside to find the source of a radio broadcast that promises salvation. 28 Days Later is basically an updated version of The Omega Man and other post-apocalyptic visions; but while the movie may lack originality, it makes up for it in vivid details and creepy paranoid atmosphere. 28 Days Later’s portrait of how people behave in extreme circumstances–written by novelist Alex Garland (The Beach)–will haunt you afterward. Also featuring Brendan Gleeson (The General, Gangs of New York) and Christopher Eccleston (Shallow Grave, The Others). –Bret Fetzer

Excellent contemporary “zombie” flick
There are very few zombie movies made nowadays. This is considered one of the better ones. Although in this movie, people are induced into attacking others by a virus. It communicates the importance between maintaining vigilance and caring for others. Both points are brought across in different ways. Another Rackworthy movie. …more info

During The Apocalypse …

A lot of people automatically credit this movie with inventing the fast moving, overpowering zombie. Undoubtedly, the images presented by Danny Boyle of his Rage-infested, ticking time bombs are chaotic and very troubling to watch. Most see this and think in the back of their minds that `when this goes down — they won’t have a chance’. I feel the same way. Seemingly guns, bullets and shelter don’t help in any case. The best bet looks like a underground bunker, but good luck on finding one.

For the record, John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars in 2001 brought out the maniacal and unstoppable undead to the screen for the very first time. While `Ghost of Mars’ is a very dark and also very troubling film, due to its spiritual angle, it’s very forgettable. I was put into a very uneasy state when I saw it in the theatre, but I was forever put into a state of alert after seeing 28 Days Later.

The use of a digital camera, hand-held throughout, was cutting edge when Danny Boyle did it for the first time, now Paul Greengrass seems to have made a career of copying his techniques. Note to the theatre going film elite: Greengrass may be good at what he does, but just remember what he did before the release of 28 Days Later is completely forgettable.

28 Days Later is hands down the best Zombie movie ever made. The realism is frightening and dark. The high water mark may be so high in this that others trying to emulate it may only get within groveling distance.

Some may have seen this and thought: “hey that’ll never happen. It’s fiction.” Yeah? Think so? Just watch the attached documentary in the special features and you might be scratching your head and looking for the gas cans. Maybe we won’t have to fight off zombies, but being wiped out by plague is a highly possible and very probable future scenario.

See you in the next life …

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Over-rated
Maybe “28 Days Later” is so disappointing because it had so much potential. At its core, the film is a bleak, brainy British update on the social commentary George Romero used to be so good at. The lead characters, in fact, are fleshed out even better than those of Romero’s classic zombie films, and the film definitely has it’s thumb on the paranoid pulse of the 21st Century. Throughout the first half of the film, I was literally on the edge of my seat, and I believed all the hype. I was prepared to love this movie.

Then the film suddenly veers from its pseudo-indy tone into a type of Hollywood filmmaking that is nauseatingly overfamiliar. Cliche after cliche follows: A formerly mild-manner character suddenly turns into a Rambo-like superwarrior; a formerly strong female character turns to emotional mush; a team of crack career militarymen seem incapable of firing their guns straight; a quirky supporting character is killed onscreen to prove the severity of the threat. I know it may seem odd to complain about a certain subplot that comes up near the end as being “sick” especially as this is a zombie film, but I found the soldiers’ plans for the female characters to be very, very offensive

and seemed to exist only for shock value.

While this is a great movie by the standards of “Resident Evil” or “House of the Dead,” this could have been so much more. I was very, very disappointed with “28 Days Later.”…more info

Still Don’t Understand…
Why did this movie get rave reviews? It was too long, too boring, and DID NOT rewrite the “zombie genre” which so many people claimed it did. I found the the plot jumpy and inconsistent. There was no real “feel” of terror. All that being said, I think the main thing that failed this movie was the outside over-hype. It was nothing that I expected, because if it had been, then it would have been good. Sorry, can’t recommend this one….more info