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The horror film "28 Days Later" reinvigorated the zombie film genre. Instead of using rotting shamblers, the story introduced us to humans infected with a rage-inducing virus, transferable by any open wound or orifice. With a plot more realistic and therefore terrifying than the rise of the undead, "28 Days Later" was a hit. Murphy has since become a staple in box office hits. Brendan Gleeson is good in a fatherly role but Eccleston seems clipped and at odds with his military role.

In fact all the military guys were laddish caricatures and only just did the job - but I never believed in their characters as I did with the others. Overall I was glad to see this early. I really enjoyed it, the pace at times may have been uneven but to me that added to the tension - an attack could come at any time. The eventual small scale focus helped the tension and pace of the story.

Thrilling, scary, tense and well written - even more surprising is that it's home grown! Humans are rioting like every day was Black Friday at Walmart.

A group of do-gooders lets an infected chimp loose that has the "Rage" virus which causes people to go berserk and kill uninfected people only. The effect is immediate and the virus has wiped out New York from London in 28 days. Go figure. Jim Cillian Murphy wakes up from a coma and needs a Pepsi product placement. He ends up with two other people as they travel to a military base which was not the paradise he expected.

This is not a zombie movie per se, but an infected person film. They don't take headshots to kill and I wonder why they haven't raised the grocery stores. Guide: F-word. I've mentioned several times about my list of favourite horror movies, and this one is very much on the list. In someone it's a beautiful movie, with some truly powerful, almost iconic scenes of an empty London, abandoned motorways etc, a soundtrack that would grace any film, and some great characters, all somehow realistic and subtle.

The story is quite common place, but it's what accompanies it is what makes it unique, an unashamedly huge amount of Britishness, we get Union Jacks, London cabs and buses, even Trafalgar Square. Plenty of scares, great character play, lots of long dialogues which are far from dull and a fantastic ending.

A classic, full of depth. Well not really, but that's not the point, I was trying to make. I just thought of the song, walk like an Egyptian and considering the pace of the zombies on hand here, I mixed it with that. But back to the movie, that has two obvious Romero nods the grocery store scene, a "special" zombie, which reminds fans of "Bub" "Day of the Dead" and more or less the complete third act, which also looks like a "Day of the Dead" nod. And maybe some more, but not that apparent.

The horror scenes are good, especially the beginning with it's images that might haunt you for a while London, like you've never seen it. Danny Boyle has made a name for himself over the past twenty years with movies like "Trainspotting", "Slumdog Millionaire" and " Hours".

But "28 Days Later" is also worth checking out. It's not a zombie movie in the general sense. In this case, a rage-causing virus decimates the UK's population, leaving only a few people alive. While there is a lot of gore, the emphasis remains on the characters. Probably the thing that makes the movie especially unique is what we eventually find out about the troops.

Boyle said that he took some inspiration from "Day of the Triffids". Watching the movie I could see the similarity. I also got the feeling that "Contagion" and "World War Z" took some inspiration from this movie. Most importantly, this is one movie that you have to see. I have a feeling that if a virus wiped out most of the population leaving only a few people, those few people would REALLY have to hustle to figure out how to survive.

I recommend it. After waking up from a coma, a man named Jim Cillian Murphy discovers that the entire city of London and maybe the world has been taken over by a virus that causes people to go into a rage. Now, he is left with only two things to do: find others like himself and learn to survive. Like the former, you have one man alone against a world of post-human monsters in an evacuated large city. He is looking for a cure, or at least a way to survive, and he finds a female companion to share the journey.

The differences between the films are relatively minor in the context of the overall plot. And then we have the latter. While the "Walking Dead" comic or television series could be compared to any zombie apocalypse film, it again features one man alone in a big city Rick in Atlanta as opposed to Jim in London. Most notably, both start in a hospital.

Major West could also be compared to the Governor. This may be a coincidence, or it may be an homage -- according to Robert Kirkman, he had the comic plotted out before he had seen this film.

We are given this horrific vision by director Danny Boyle best known at this point for "Trainspotting" before getting even bigger with "Slumdog Millionaire" , and he does a fine job. By saying this film takes elements from predecessors, it may sound like I am being condescending or trying to sell the film short. I am not. Boyle does a wonderful job of showing a desolate city, a man isolated in London the last place he would expect to be alone and people infected with the rage virus. Much of horror cinema is not so much being original a very, very rare thing these days but taking a well-trod archetype and making it your own.

One brave decision that was made was the casting of no-name actors, or at least no actors that stand out for Americans this is before the "Doctor Who" franchise took off in the States.

Any name actor such as, say, Leonardo DiCaprio as was rumored would distract from the grand vision, I feel. It shifts the focus from the story of all humanity to the story of one man. Interestingly, Cillian Murphy has since become a huge star in his own right -- watching the film now is different than when it first came out because of this. The heart of the film is Brendan Gleeson, who plays Frank. It takes it from a horror or survival film to a story of the goodness of humanity.

The saying that sometimes the worst brings out the best in people is exemplified in Frank. His good nature and altruism shine and have a positive effect on those around him. Many consider this a "zombie" film, while others try to differentiate it from that group Boyle himself has called it a zombie film. I think there is a distinct difference between a virus that affects the living and the walking dead even when the walking dead are brought back by a virus.

This is, really, just a tale of survival that could have been portrayed similarly as rabies or AIDS. This is another way the film is influential; hundreds of zombie films have come out over the past decade most of which are terrible , but the rise of the "infection" film owes its genesis to "28 Days Later". The only real complaint is the suspension of disbelief we have to have about Jim's beginnings. Waking up from a coma that he was in for at least three weeks, he is able to run easily without muscle atrophy or fatigue.

He also survived in a hospital where no one else did. And most amazing of all, he seems to have not urinated or defecated in the bed. But all horror and science fiction films require a little bit of magic, so I think we can mark this off as being in that category.

The film is heavy on the survival aspects, moderate on the action, moderate on the gore by "zombie" standards. And very light on the romance, which I am pleased about that is one advantage it has over "Omega Man". The film is all about trying to make it out alive, and that is something I can see more of -- "survival horror".

While I would not recommend seeing this until after seeing "Omega Man" and "Last Man on Earth" just to put it in perspective, this is a very good addition to the line of films coming out with these themes. Woodyanders 11 January While this film didn't exactly reinvent the zombie horror genre, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland nonetheless still manage to bring a feeling of jarring intimacy and immediacy to the standard premise by wisely focusing on a small handful of survivors who try to stay alive and retain residual traces of their humanity in an extremely dire and desperate situation.

Indeed, Boyle and Garland handle the premise with admirable take-no-prisoners grim seriousness by showing in stark and chilling terms how easily people can degenerate into a horrible barbaric state in the wake of civilization collapsing.

In an inspired cynical touch, a group of soldiers turn out to be anything but heroic and helpful as they prove to be more concerned with their own self-preservation over helping others out. Cillian Murphy makes for an engaging average guy protagonist as the fundamentally decent Jim, Noamie Harris provides plenty of spark as the sassy and ruthlessly determined Selena, Brandon Gleeson does typically fine work as affable cab driver Frank, and Christopher Eccleston likewise excels as the steely Major Henry West.

A tense sequence in a tunnel rates as a definite harrowing highlight while the shots of a dead quiet and empty London are quite eerie and striking. Anthony Dod Mantle's rough digital cinematography gives this picture a gritty sense of documentary-style realism. But it's the way this film manages to keep things on a basic human level which in turn makes the horror presented herein so potent and unsettling.

Danny Boyle, director of Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and The Beach, returned to the horror genre after Shallow Grave with a very scary and realistic story about survival. In a secret laboratory, a deadly virus has infected monkeys, and when they escape and spill their blood, humans turn like them, they become really angry maniacs, or the infected zombies. He soon discovers that a few others are left alive after the evacuation, not all successful. But there is much more than that going on.

It was number 18 on The Greatest Scary Moments. Very good! This is a good horror film. It's made by means of videotape , the cinematography , musical score by John Murphy and direction by Danny Boyle are nice.

The movie begins with a spooky images , a city without people , totally uninhabited. Later on , it continues with fights between starring Clian Murphy and the zombies helped by Naomy Harris. After that, they meet Brendan Gleeson and his daughter.

The misfit group go out from London, looking for some people. The dried artificial mucus on glass, 24 hours after application. We also still don't know how much of a viable virus is needed to get a person sick.

The researchers were analysing the amount of virus in tenfold reductions; the amount of virus able to infect a tissue culture 28 days later was significantly reduced compared to the initial sample, and we just don't know that the amount of virus on these surfaces days later would be enough to cause COVID in someone. It's also important to note that places with higher temperatures haven't experienced a lower spread of COVID , and with India soon expected to surpass the US in case numbers , higher temperatures certainly aren't a pandemic get-out-of-jail-free card.

If you have a weakened immune system due to other diseases or medications, you can receive a COVID vaccine if you have not had a severe allergic reaction to any of the ingredients in the vaccine. People with moderately or severely compromised immune systems ages 12 years and older who completed their Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine primary series and ages 18 years or older who completed their Moderna COVID vaccine primary series should get an additional primary dose at least 28 days after their second shot.

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