28 Butts After

[Johnny Blister]

Then you will love"Van Helsing",or,as I call it,"The Return Of Dracula,Frankenstein and the Wolf Man".

[Evan3]

Yes, I think King Kong will start the monster craze much more effectively than the crap known as.... Godzilla

[Susan]

Was this film based on Omega Man? It sure doesn't sound too original



Post Edited (05-18-03 10:53)

[Nathan Shumate]

No.  There are similarities of concept, and 28 Days Later draws on Omega Man as a member of the genre, but there's not a one-to-one correspondence.

[Chadzilla]

Susan wrote:

> Was this film based on Omega Man? It sure doesn't sound too
> original
>

Well, The Omega Man was based on Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend...a story that had spawned a far more faithful version with Vincent Price (The Last Man on Earth) and an unofficial variant, Night of the Living Dead.  Just because a subject is overly familiar doesn't make for a dull or uninteresting move, bad filmmaking does.  From what I have seen, heard, and read about the movie, Boyle brings a vibrant energy and real scares to the story.

But 28 Days Later isn't a zombie movie, it's in the World Gone Mad sub-genre.  The virus victims are not dead, they are insane - violently so - so I don't place the film in with Dawn of the Dead and its ilk, but with Romero's oft neglected classic The Crazies (aka Code Name: Trixie), David Cronenberg's Rabid, Graham Baker's Impulse and, to a far, far lesser degree, Jean Rollin's The Night of the Hunted or Cronenberg's Shivers (aka They Came from Within).

Stuart Gordon, the director of Re-Animator and others, is currently shopping around a script adaptation of Jack Ketchum's horror novel Ladies' Night...in which a chemical spill in New York City turns all women into sexually aroused psychos that kill every man they see (including their male children, etc).  If 28 Days Later does well, maybe Gordon will succeed in getting funding for it.  Being yet another variant on the World Gone Made sub-genre, the story parallels are farily obvious.

28 Days Later remains the movie I am most eager to see this year.



Post Edited (05-20-03 12:22)

[Chadzilla]

The underrated rage virus thriller Warning Sign.

[Funk, E.]

It also shares simularities to, but does not directly copy Rabid.

[Susan]

Chadzilla wrote:

>>But 28 Days Later isn't a zombie movie, it's in the World Gone Mad sub-genre. The virus victims are not dead, they are insane - violently so - so I don't place the film in with Dawn of the Dead and its ilk, but with Romero's oft neglected classic The Crazies (aka Code Name: Trixie), David Cronenberg's Rabid, Graham Baker's Impulse and, to a far, far lesser degree, Jean Rollin's The Night of the Hunted or Cronenberg's Shivers (aka They Came from Within).
<<<

insane by a reaction to a virus? There have been quite a few variations, even "Night of the Comet" sounds similar in some regards.
It's an interesting topic in that I have always been more drawn to movies that would focus on post apocolyptic life vs. the movies that build up to a apocolypse or ones where the world gets saved in the nick of time. I'd love a movie where just a handful of survivors from nuclear fallout are alive and trying to stay alive in a shelter and then when they would decide to expose themself to the world above (and not like the brendan frasier movie) with the psychological impact. I know  it would bore most to pieces. ;-) But i digress  - Another movie that comes to mind is the Time Machine where the future depicts a world full of young people controlled by the underground culture of the..morks was it? They were a bit mad, and quite unnatractive. ;-)

>>Stuart Gordon, the director of Re-Animator and others, is currently shopping around a script adaptation of Jack Ketchum's horror novel Ladies' Night...in which a chemical spill in New York City turns all women into sexually aroused psychos that kill every man they see <<

Before..or after?

I like the premise of "28 days later" - the trailer however did not interest me. But I know trailers can really do a movie disservice

[Chadzilla]

Susan wrote:

> Chadzilla wrote:

> >>Stuart Gordon, the director of Re-Animator and others, is
> currently shopping around a script adaptation of Jack Ketchum's
> horror novel Ladies' Night...in which a chemical spill in New
> York City turns all women into sexually aroused psychos that
> kill every man they see <<
>
> Before..or after?
>

I don't know - from the synopsis of Ketchum's novel over at Amazon it ain't pretty and they ain't particular (spouses, siblings, children, whatnot) being insane and all.  I doubt it will get produced (too icky for the mainstream), about the only other director I would be interested in handling that project would be Paul Verhoven.  Think of it as 28 Days After They Came from Within and went Rabid.

hehehehe

[Johnny Blister]

That chemival is called the Buffy Virus.

[onionhead]

Is this adapted from a James Herbert novel, because I think I read it a few years ago.

[Johnny Blister]

James Herbert  = Paul S. Anderson

[Chadzilla]

No, it isn't, but you are either thinking of his 70s novel The Fog...which featured a chemical fog that drove all exposed to it mad, or his 90s novel 48...which was an alternate history novel in which a Nazi secret weapon killed everyone save for those with a certain blood type by turning their blood to clotted guck.  Herbert is good for pulp trash fun, but little else.  Not that that is a bad thing, far from it.

[Johnny Blister]

I ment it as a joke,you moron!