Does anyone know what 28 Days After is supposed to be about? I saw the preview for it and it kind of reminded me of Silent Hill and there was something about zombies but it still looked kind of boring. Is it really about ZOMBIES?
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Yes
It is about Zombies
Yes
It will be boring
Hope that helped
Far more useful is Nathan's review (http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/0-9/28dayslater.html)
DANNY BOYLE IS GOD(and his creations would NEVER loose to a mere bunny).
HE RULES.
"28 Days Later"is a deep,philosophical,abstract film.It´s NOT a mindless zombie horror film.
Never diss the Boyle!
No, it's not about zombies.
No, it's not boring.
Well, point one above is stretching it a bit, but I won't go any further or it might constitute a spoiler. And I saw it twice, so heck it can't be that bad!
Here I was all ready to plug my own site, and Freep beat me to it.
"I've been Freeped -- and I LIKE it!"
Is a horror movie about a rage virus that sweeps across England, infection occurs in seconds and leaves the victim a homicidal maniac for life. It isn't a 'zombie' movie in the traditional sense, but it is a go for the throat horror movie. Advance word has been quite strong about it and fans in England (where it did quite well) have been singing praises about it. Of all the horror movies coming out this year, this is the one I am most looking forward to seeing.
Here is one article about the movie's opening in England.
http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=415
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Here I was all ready to plug my own site, and Freep beat me to it.
He he...I'm always willing to give a link to your site when it's relevant.
"I've been Freeped -- and I LIKE it!"
I...don't think I want to think about that too much :)
IT´S NOT A HORROR MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny Blister wrote:
> IT´S NOT A HORROR MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No need to shout but Johnny Boy but, yes, 28 Days Later is most certainly a HORROR movie. Says who? Well, first and foremost, the director, Danny Boyle, who you idolize so very much. He is quite up front about it being a horror movie in interviews and, unlike some people, Boyle does not feel it weakens his film one iota by calling it such. Sorry to burst your bubble on that, but 28 Days Later is a horror film. There is nothing wrong with that whatsoever AND, contrary to the moronic snobbery that looks down upon the genre, a horror movie CAN be a philosophical and meaningful film as well. You can call it what you like, but its genre roots are apparent and deep and, most importantly, embraced by its makers as such.
(http://www.fangoria.com/graphics/articles/2_homepage.jpg)
Might I ask just what is so very wrong with it being a horror movie? Whoever it was that told you horror couldn't be intelligent and/or thoughtful was an idiot.
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OK,but then it´s a masterpiece of terror!
Never since The Sixth Ssense has horror improved so much!
Couldnt resist, but Chadzilla, you are my new idol, what a defense on Johnny, Pow. YOu remind me of this scene in Annie Hall, where this guy is talking about his idol's movies as if he were an expert and then the actor finally steps out from the shadows and says
"you dont know a thing about me or my movies, do you?"
Only stating the obvious, but thanks.
I miss the 28 Days Later website that was up during the movie's run in Britain. It not only kicked ass, but it had numerous goodies (including stills, multiple trailers, and interviews with the cast and crew) and let you know the movie went for the throat in no uncertain terms. I've been waiting for this to hit theaters for almost two years. I might take the day off just to see the first matinee show of the day when it opens here.
I'll post links if a revised one comes up for the American release. Which is next month! :-)
The days are numbered....
And then they say horror is dead...
Popular entertainment runs in cycles. Something will become popular, the market with be flooded with like looking/sounding entertainments to cash in on the trend, it will play out, someone will state it 'dead' and then something new will come along and start the whole ball rolling again. Wash, rinse, repeat...
HORROR WILL NEVER DIE.
Of course the slasher craze may go away for a few years. Ghost stories seem to be doing quite well right now. But I'm most hoping for a return of the monster movie myself. People forget that horror has many, many masks to wear. :-)
Then you will love"Van Helsing",or,as I call it,"The Return Of Dracula,Frankenstein and the Wolf Man".
Yes, I think King Kong will start the monster craze much more effectively than the crap known as.... Godzilla
Was this film based on Omega Man? It sure doesn't sound too original
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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.
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.
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The underrated rage virus thriller Warning Sign.
It also shares simularities to, but does not directly copy Rabid.
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).
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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
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
That chemival is called the Buffy Virus.
Is this adapted from a James Herbert novel, because I think I read it a few years ago.
James Herbert = Paul S. Anderson
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.
I ment it as a joke,you moron!