28 Days Later (DVD)

This film will be good for people that like films with zombies in but don't except the death toll to be to high or the killing scenes to be that great. The plot Basically a group of scientists have injected a family of apes with a virus of rage. Once bitten you are infected with the virus of rage in 10-20 seconds, YOU MUST BE KILLED!! Or you will turn into a "zombie" and you will want to infect more people. Rage takes over the city. A man wakes up, Jim (Cillian Murphy), to find that everywhere is deserted, and there is nothing around. As he tries to figure out what has happened he encounters his first "zombie" ...  Read the complete review

28 DAYS LATER is a sci-fi horror movie directed by Danny Boyle (who interestingly directed a couple of episodes of TV’s INSPECTOR MORSE early in his career!). The story follows Jim who, waking up from a coma, finds that a virus has turned the population of the UK into psychopaths – they come across very much like zombies and remind me of those in George A. Romero’s zombie “…Of The Dead” series. The story is very derivative, not just of zombie movies, but also of classic science fiction, such as John Wyndham’s DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. However this is a version updated for the 21st century (the film was originally released in 2002). The storylines is gripping, and ...  Read the complete review

Introduction ---------------- As you’ve probably guessed from my other recent reviews, if you’re a fan of zombie films, George A Romero is the man to turn to. Back in 2002, Brits Danny Boyle and Andrew MacDonald (best known for Trainspotting) and writer Alex Garland (The Beach) decided to play Romero at his own game. So, how successful were they? The Plot ----------- Following a traffic accident, Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a deserted hospital. Weak and disorientated, he stumbles out of the hospital to find London completely deserted… The Characters ------------------ Like Romero, Garland tries to concentrate on ...  Read the complete review

This was one of two fairly high profile British horror films released in the last year or so. The other, Dog Soldiers, was an unpretentious and highly entertaining movie about squaddies getting massacred by werewolves in Scotland. Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended. The best thing that I can find to say about 28 Days Later is that it wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting. It was made by Danny Boyle, who after starting his career with Shallow Grave, a film that I rather enjoyed at the time, turned out a dreadful pop video version of Trainspotting which doesn't do justice to the book and fails on almost every level. After a couple of other films ...  Read the complete review

After the successes of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, Danny Boyle was the next hot name in British cinema, along with producer Andrew Macdonald and writer John Hodge. Now, a couple of years after the comparative failure of The Beach, he's back, still with Andrew Macdonald producing, but this time with a script written by Alex Garland, author of The Beach. After the partial Hollywoodisation of The Beach, this is back to being an entirely British film, gritty and dark. The film opens with a prologue, showing an animal rights group breaking into a facility holding chimpanzees in cages. After things go shockingly and violently wrong, we skip ahead to 28 days ...  Read the complete review