28 Weeks later has an interesting twist on a sequel, but it is still a sequel. I am not typically a fan of sequels but this is news I don’t mind hearing.
HorrorMovies.ca has posted a crazy early review of 28 weeks later. They were let into an early screening of the first portion of the film and the word is it rocks your socks. The movie is set six months after the rage virus has annihilated the British Isles. The US Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited — but one of them unwittingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.
I really liked 28 days later. It was a great take on the Zombie genre. But at the same time I hesitate to throw my excitement at a sequel.
I could be proven wrong, and it has happened before, but it doesn’t change my hesitation. I often HOPE that I am wrong about these things so that we can see more of a good movie.
I hope I am wrong about this too. If the early review is any indication, I might be pleasantly treated to a solid sequel.
Read the review Here
That poster was nice.
But what I want to know is…are there four diffrent endings shown in four diffrent theatres…
I’m a little hesitant too but I must say that pre-preview and the cool poster intrigue me.
How about calling this genre “re-mania” instead of zombies.
It’s gonna suck.
If it’s not a re-animated corpse then it’s not a zombie. Using the term ‘zombie’ to describe the infected humans in 28 Days Later is, at the very least, lazy.
I absolutely loved 28 Days Later but I am very hesitant of there being a sequel. I have a biased reason for really holding back on seeing this when it comes out and that is I HATE ROBERT CARLYLE. The lead actor in the sequel (he was also in The Full Monty and Trainspotting). EVERYONE has an actor they simply can’t stand and for me it’s this guy. But I guess everyone (and film) deserves a chance.
I think you can classify 28 Days Later as a zombie movie, an unconventinal one by todays standards, but one none the less. I mean what is a zombie but a mindless human that’s running on it’s need to eat human flesh, and the infected in 28 Days Later are mindless extremely pissed humans that are running on Rage. Plus it’s clearly influenced by Romero’s Dead films
Hell, the whole genre has evolved from the voodoo zombies (which are living) of “White Zombie” and “I Walked With a Zombie”, to the undead slow ghouls of the Romero films and runners of “Return of the Livng” & “Dawn of the Dead ’04”. So just calm down about the whole not a zombie movie shite.
Loved the first one and have some faith in this one. Glad to hear they had such confidence in it to do such an early showing, can’t wait to see it. Any word on when the first trailer hits?
Indeed Fiend. That’s like calling the mutants in “Omega Man” zombies. No.
28 Days Later was NOT a zombie movie. It wasn’t even close to being a zombie movie. It’s a plague/apocalypse movie. The Infected in 28 Days Later were NOT undead, they were INFECTED, with a DISEASE, they were completely and totally alive until they starved to death, then they died and DID NOT return from the dead as zombies.