It starts with a straightforward but compelling story from novelist Alex Garland. Movies that featured them seemed more like platforms for mindless, gory gross-outs with little to recommend them.Ģ8 Days Later revitalized the genre by doing something simple and obvious. Despite the release of Cemetery Man in 1996 (one of the few great horror films of that decade), zombies were on a creative hiatus. When 28 Days Later hit the screen, zombies weren’t nearly the ubiquitous horror presence they are now. I mean, we’ve seen running zombies before but not quite like this.Ĭhris: A little historical context is in order here, I think. Jason: These are some terrifying assed zombies. An early scene with Selena and Mark underscores this with a perfect zombie movie tradition–the necessary killing an afflicted buddy. Survivors risk seeing family, lovers, and best friends turned into the murderous creatures, and have to act against them swiftly or risk being turned themselves. It’s a disease, transmitted from one to another that makes anyone who contracts it into a monster. What makes the infected in the Days movies serve as proper zombies is the way they’re created. Traumatic brain injury doesn’t seem to be the sole method of killing them, either. OK, sure, the monsters aren’t technically dead. The problem I have with typical discussions of these films that I’ve been subjected to is that everyone seems to want to talk about the least-interesting thing about them.Īfter the jump, they’re zombies deal with itĬhris: I suppose it’s somewhat necessary to hash this out early, this question of whether these are proper zombie movies. They helped lever zombie everything into our current cultural lexicon. Those two movies played a large part in helping put put zombie culture at the forefront of 21st century horror. A few Americans disobey orders to try to keep the kids alive in the face of deadly American snipers, poison gas, and incendiaries.Chris Hornbostel and Jason McMaster, October 9, 2014Ĭhris: I’ve found that folks love to talk about 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later. Don's duplicity sets in motion a chain of events that ends in another outbreak of the rage virus, this time in the heart of this quarantine stronghold.If there's any hope for a cure, it lies with Don's children - whose blood may have an antidote. One of the Americans' key local people turns out to be Don, who reunites with his son and daughter - and lies to them about what really happened to their mother. ![]() ![]() Army is enforcing a high-tech quarantine, resettling the British capital with refugees who waited out the crisis safely across the English Channel. ![]() The infected have all starved to death, and the U.S. After showing husband and father Don ( Robert Carlyle) treacherously abandoning his wife during a zombie attack to save himself in the worst days of the epidemic, the movie revisits the ghostly, abandoned London of the first film. occupiers committing atrocities when they can't tell the civilians from the hostile enemy. In fact, it seems to be at least partially a Gulf War/Vietnam metaphor about overconfident U.S. If you remember how Her Majesty's soldiers reacted to the "rage virus" plague in the first film - they were fascistic survivalist types prone to rape - you won't be surprised that this movie doesn't exactly support the troops either. In a major escalation of the first movie's theme, the American military has been brought in to clean up and re-settle Britain, where almost everyone died from a rabies-like contagion that turned people into maniacal (but mortal) zombie psychopaths.
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