Budget: £8 million
Directed By: Danny Boyle
In a world where pandemic is the new normal, crazy and almost movie-like as it seems. Films like this are finding new leases of life with people.
Teasing how a virus can quickly overtake a populace and kill people, or this instance turn them in raving infected nutcases.
28 Days Later was possibly one of the first films to introduce this type of 'fast zombie' though not 100% true zombie as in they aren't dead and decaying they do like to bite and spread on the disease like our old rotten pals.
This film despite me being 20 was one of the first films in a long time to genuinely bring back the fear in me. The rate also ease at which you can be infected and change is terrifying. Also thankfully totally inaccurate, nothing in nature can infect you at the rate this does (virus wise).
This film has some of the best tunes and tracks on a soundtrack too, not something I talk about much on reviews but good music can make some situations or just a good/tense feeling to a scene. You all know the tunes I mean too, it's used in everything bleak these days. John Murphy's 'In The House' in case you've been living under a rock.
The film we see some self righteous fucknut activists freeing what they believe are poor monkey's in a testing lab. Only for self said fucknuts to be attacked by our rage infected simian friends, to then burst into rage infection themselves. We then join Cillian's character Jim's floppy penis and balls waking from a coma after some accident, lol. Bewildered he finds out he's been locked in his hospital room. Thankfully the key is slid under the door, he looks around finding no one around the place is deserted.
Getting clothed and finding his way out into London he finds the streets deserted, it's been twenty eight days since some catastrophic event has seemingly cleared the streets. Doing a little looting and pillaging himself for food etc he is attacked by infected humans.
He is saved by two other people Selena (Naomie)and her friend, they tell Jim that the virus spread rapidly and they've heard nothing from the rest of the world for weeks. Jim asks if they can travel to his parents which they agree, they find they've taken their lives. Later on Selena's friend gets infected begging to only cut the infected arm off she kills him. Explaining to Jim it moves to fast to even try to amputate, as they've tried it before.
Travelling around the pair come into contact with a cab driver Frank (Daddy Gleeson) and his daughter Hannah. They inform the two that they've received radio contact from military up in Manchester. With supplies running low anyway(which he confides in Jim) they decide to travel up there in Franks cab.
Almost there they find it hard to find the blockade, then in a spate of shit luck some infected blood falls from a dead infected person right into Franks eye. Within seconds he is spazing out turning into a rage infected. Jim has to put him down for their own sake but before he does a bullet takes Frank out. Seems that the army folk found them, they invite them all back to where they are holed up.
It already has that air of being ominous and 'to good to be true' the moment they step in the fortified mansion. This is doubled by the way the soldiers are acting including keeping infected around too. The soldiers and their leader Henry West (Christopher Eccleston) are luring women to the base in order to 'use them' as breeding tools.
Jim gets wind of this then the soldiers try to kill him, he escapes with a minor wound to the head. He manages to infiltrate the camp a bit later and frees the infected soldier he was shown earlier. All hell breaks lose as infected start to overrun the facility. Jim saves Selena and Hannah but he's turned kind of feral in his attempt to free them. Selena hesitates killing him for just a second long enough for him to say he's fine.
They escape back to Franks cab, to have one more surprise waiting for them.
I won't spoil anymore as there's a twist in that moment and then the actual films ending further on from that too. The film does have two or three alternate endings too on the DVD and BluRay also I believe when it's shown on TV now it features one of the ending after the credits, don't quote me on that though.
28 Days Later is a very strong film and a refreshing new view on the zombie genre, it's a masterwork in all areas, writing, visually and audio wise too. THN awards 28 Days Later 5 out of 5.
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