"28 Days Later"

[Rod Hagen]

....I'll still be traumatized. For now all I can say is "Holy Fucking Shit".

[Rod Hagen]

....I'll still be traumatized. For now all I can say is "Holy Fucking Shit".

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Danny Boyle

 

All the Danny Boyle films are truly great, one overlooked gem is Shallow Grave as it pre-dates Trainspotting.

[SmallTownJohn]

RE: Danny Boyle

 

Hey,

 

My partner is a Danny Boyle fan(Dario Argento too) so we caught "28 Days Later" last night. It was a spooky, heavy film. I thought it was going to be a straight zombie flick but with SARS & Monkey pox today, the film hit home.

 

I liked the Atlanta theater crowd's collective sigh when the drop of blood hit the father in the eye. I dug the tire changing scene too.

 

John

http://www.SmallTownJohn1.com

[Rod Hagen]

RE: Danny Boyle

 

Shallow Grave has NOTHING on this film.

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Shallow Grave

 

I said it was often overlooked and that I personally recommended it as well-made film that some may not even known was made by the same men who made Trainspotting.

 

I never said it was better, young man. That would be like comparing one escort to another and saying one escort was better than the rest. That would be wrong, as was often pointed out by that great man who helped father the child who leads the free world with the calm assurance of someone who believes, "The question we need to ask: Is our children learning?"

[bigguyinpasadena]

RE: Shallow Grave

 

OK,just got back from seeing 28 DAYS LATER,kind of a gore fest,good-not great-camera work.Could not stop thinking of the OMEGA MAN.

Now-do y'all think this was a straight zombie flick,or a parable?And,if the latter,what was the leson to be learned?

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

RE:

 

Now here's a great topic because i love a good (or bad for that matter) zombie flick~

 

I know that many in the media have compared this new movie to the likes of Dawn/Day of the Dead, Dead Alive, NOTLD & other alike flicks. Since i haven't had the chance to actually see '28' yet, i will refrain from any opinion, although i am curious as to what you guys think in comparison to these other zombie classics.

 

I remember watching 'Dawn' for the first time and it just blew me away~ it made me admire Romero for his ability to switch from feeling sympathetic for the undead to watching their heads explode in gory glee. I'm still bitter than finding the DVD of 'Dawn/Day' is like pulling your elbow out of your ass, as it's gone out of print & sells for around $80 on Amazon.com. Rumor has it that Anchor Bay is re-releasing it on a new Directors Cut DVD in early 2004... Only time will tell i suppose.

 

I will say that after recently finishing the 'Demons' series (Argentino, correct?), i have a newfound respect for Italian zombie movies

 

 

FYI~ saw a screening of the remake of 'Chainsaw Massacre' and it's truly horrible. They should have left Tobe Hooper's original vision alone because messing with perfection just ruins the whole concept. Really sad.

 

 

 

Warmest Always,

 

 

 

Benjamin Nicholas

[Huey]

RE: Shallow Grave

 

Shallow Grave is a cool film. Always in my top 100 . I am planning to see 28 Days Later this Friday though Rod's post has me scared now :7 . Well, hopfefully I'll be blown away too.

[jackhammer91406]

RE:

 

I saw the movie yesterday afternoon in a surprisingly crowded theater. I normally go to a matinee because I prefer fewer in the audience myself. Feels more like a screening.

 

While I have seen most of the films Benjamin mentions, the thing that set this movie apart for me, (and is alluded to by another poster re: SARS etc.) is how the people become contaminated. I have always been able to separate from the fear factor in Zombie movies because the premise was always unbelievable to me. This movie sets a premise that is contemporary and totally believeable to me right from the get go. The uneasiness was a major factor in the movie having such a strong impact on all of us in the theater. Often, these Zombie affairs have an almost camp kind of feel, with cheesy effects. This was different.

And the eye candy at the beginning of the full frontal nude male lead, well, the mostly str8 crowd was absolutely silent! No one even breathed. In that sense, the director increased the discomfort factor for almost everyone in the theater but me. He was very sexy in a wiry, active man kind of way. Can't wait for the sequel. Hope that guy is in it. Did anyone catch his name?

 

 

 

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[Guest Dan]

RE:

 

It's been 5 days and I'm just starting to recover from the movie! WOW.

 

 

Dan Dare

http://meetlocalmen.com/mlm/dandarela.html

[Guest hunklover]

RE:

 

In the newspaper, movie ads, quite a few well known critics had good things to say about the movie. I enjoy watching good scifi/horror flicks, so I made a point to see it as soon as I could. The movie did nothing for me. There were a few places where something would jump out and scare the crap out of you, but other than that I simply had a hard time really getting into it. Like i said, it just didn't do anything for me.

[taylorky]

RE:

 

same here hunklover....i an a real fan of horror flicks. i have over 400 on tape (both good and bad) but this one just did'nt do it for me .social commentary sure,horror film ........no taylorchildofthenighthowlllllllllllll@02:31-07/03/03

[+ Lucky]

RE: horror

 

The movie was interesting for me, but too violent. I just don't need to see someone poking someone's eyes out up close and personal. I wonder why such violent movies are allowed by the christian coalition. If the main character had an erection, they would have been hollering to ban the movie.

[Guest Raffy]

RE:

 

"28 days later," I think, is a great film. I rate it a 10 for provoking thought, 9 for style (the digital video look makes it extra creepy), and a 7 for horror.

 

The idea that other survivors present a bigger threat to survival than the "zombies" was dealt with brilliantly in the final minutes of "night of the living dead." In 28days, it's a major theme in the last half of the movie.

 

That said, nothing can compare to that nite 30+ years ago when, slightly stoned, i saw a mdnight showing of "Night of the Living Dead" at the Waverly. The opening sequence in the cemetery is still the scariest thing on film to me...

[Rod Hagen]

RE: horror

 

“28 Days Later” is probably the most traumatizing film I’ve ever seen. Graphic, of course, but the violence is extremely intimate, making it feel as if you’re doing the killing (or being killed). The director’s earliest film is the cheerfully dark “Shallow Grave.” And as much as I enjoyed Shallow Grave it wasn’t much more than a smart, cheeky, whodunit (everyone). 28 Days is a film experience. The camera work, as I mentioned, was continually askew with intermittent, and far from seamless, mixes of manic computer animation and live ACTION; from beginning to end I wondered, “How did the studio finagle a free-pass out of the asylum for this film crew?” I honestly don’t know if five minutes passed without an artful blood spray.

 

I really want to focus on the intimacy of the camera work. Apart from the obvious use of odd, artsy, camera angles, two tricks horror filmmakers often employ when they wish to elevate their film above the Freddy and Jason (together for the first time later this summer) genre is to either make the audience squirm by making the tortured and/or dying victim squirm (think dental/medical equipment in Marathon Man or Blood Sucking Freaks) or to keep the audience continually on the brink of madness by rarely slowing the frenetic pace of gore (think Evil Dead 2). One of the many things I think 28 did successfully was integrate the two tactics without overworking one simple pace element. When they wanted you to feel his isolation of being alone in the world the camera pulled far back to show the dead streets of London. You would expect this. But whenever the ultra-violence occurred, which was often, the camera got tight, real tight, like 75mm-on-a-point-and-shoot tight, however the tempo changed to breakneck; like watching a chainsaw experiement firsthand.

 

To a non-horror fan, I’d sound like a nut. Actually, apart from some teenaged unconscious exploration of horror films’ homoerotic elements, such as bondage and sadism, I’ve never been much for horror films myself, they often feel too contrived, the gross outs too forced, obvious. Not the case here. Count me in as a member of the "21 Club".

 

-Hagen

[+ Lucky]

RE: horror

 

Fight Club traumatized me more than this. Ya wanna step outside and discuss it?

[Rod Hagen]

RE: horror

 

>Count me in as a member of the "21 Club".

 

Which of course makes no sense as the movie is not titled "21 Days Later". My stomach must be craving the world's best cheeseburgers at 21 Club, and it's speaking for my head.

[J-Man]

RE: 28 Days ....

 

I'm sorry ... I just can't get past the title. It just reminds me too much of a woman's "monthly visitor." Not exactly something I want to think about when choosing a movie. :*