28 Days Later [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston, David Schneider, Ricci Harnett, Stuart McQuarrie
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
Cinematographer: Enrique Chediak
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language); Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of 28 Days Later [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Intellectually Frightening
Summary: 4 Stars

28 Days Later / B0000BZJCM

*Spoilers*

Whether you find 28 Days Later to be frightening will probably depend on your level of tolerance for these sorts of movies. I love zombie movies but am easily frightened, so 28 Days Later definitely scared me on several levels. However, I can see how many people would consider this to be less of a scary horror movie and more of a suspense movie. Either way, I think the film works well.

The film opens at a research facility where a group of well-meaning but ill-fated students are breaking in to free the laboratory animal test subjects. The animals are infected with a "Rage Virus" that makes them, well, the Rage virus basically turns you into a very fast, very angry zombie - an unthinking, unfeeling automaton purely motivated by a thirst to eat and kill everything not infected. Unlike the usual zombie set-up, the infected humans don't seem to be *undead* per se, and would presumably bleed to death under the right circumstances, but they don't really seem to be totally human either, given that they don't seem to suffer from some of the same limitations as humans and they (apparently) aren't driven to attack one another.

The ill-fated students are, of course, infected by the test animals, and the virus immediately spreads throughout England with frightening speed. We black out and join our hero (Murphy) who is waking up from a coma that began prior to the outbreak. He stumbles bewildered through the now-silent streets, almost seeming to sleep-walk through the surreal quiet. And when he finally learns what has happened, that everyone he has ever known and loved is either dead or infected, his sense of loss is palpable. This terrible dilemma - would it have been better to live through the crisis as it unfolded or to just be hit with the finality of it after the fact? - haunts him and his companions as they scramble, terrified, through the streets hoping for a safe place, with food, with water, with some semblance of normalcy.

When the few survivors tune into an automated radio message promising a cure for the infection, they are forced to make a choice. Their supplies are rapidly dwindling, but they are for the moment safe. They have no guarantee that the automated message isn't a hoax or a false promise. Do they sacrifice their current safety for hope? And also, do they sacrifice themselves for each other in the name of family and friendship or is it truly "every man for himself" in this bleak world?

The car journey to the radio message has an almost dream-like quality. Although they are in danger, the survivors are still overwhelmed by the beauty of the countryside and the simple pleasures of a preserved tin of peaches. The dream can't last, however, and when they are picked up and taken to safety by a group of soldiers being led by a rapidly-descending-into-madness commander, they are shocked to learn that the soldiers plan to "survive" the infection by holing up in their fortress and raping any women and children they can find in order to perpetuate the species and generally pass the time. And here we are presented with new dilemmas, not the least of which is whether a human foe can be more frightening and dangerous than a zombie foe.

Although this is clearly not a "typical" zombie movie, I feel that it deserves notice for the daring new approach taken by the film makers, particularly the dreamy, dazed feeling of the post-coma scenes and car journey scenes. Particularly thought-provoking is the question of self-preservation versus group-responsibility, and I appreciate that no easy answers are thrown out here. And the treatment of morality within a post-apocalyptic world is handled superbly, with the understanding that humans can lose their humanity easily enough without needing any "Rage Virus" to facilitate their descent. 28 Days Later may not be your average horror flick, but it is definitely worth a look.

This movie provides closed captions for the hearing impaired.

DVD Review: zombie flick
Summary: 4 Stars

this is a great movie one of the better zombie flicks the isolation and the loneliness of london and the quiet you feel when the main character walks through dead streets gives you a feeling of dread would recommend this movie to those who like dawn of the dead a very intelligent and well written script for a movie which has been done before in other sorts of screen plays

DVD Review: Alright already about the Grainy Visual/Tecs... Transfers .. Etc......
Summary: 5 Stars

It was grainy..It was Low Light..looked home made..They were Zombies,no they werent...How about the movie and story line? This movie Really scared me and still does, and all this quable about movie visuals, poor quality etc. actually made it seem more real to me...The jerky movments of the "infected ones", was done very effectivelly, and I saw this again, in the New Remake Of, Dawn Of The Dead...The editing of the movie as a whole, was what made it so good, it gives you a clastrafobic feeling that just really draws you in....The hideout, Military Camp, where life is just Peachy Keen, was an homage to "THE MALL", of the Dawn Of The Dead movies, where evrything that could go wrong-Does..It wasant excessivlly gory, but the feeling of Gloom and Dread is so, strongly telgraphed to the viewer, that it seems to permeate your TV screen, and fill the room your in.. It had good character development so you really felt alot of the Horror they did, and sympathise with their flight from the "infected ones" AND the non- infected Military soldiers, gone bad.. The ending was like, waking up from a bad nightmare, everything looks, and is, lighter, up beat, and the dark Gloom lifts, and you feel greatful that you made it through ok... I still cant see this movie with the lights off.

DVD Review: What A Stinker!
Summary: 1 Stars

I bought this movie and its sequel; both were highly recommended as "really scary zombie flicks." The terms "disappointed," "bewildered," and "angry at where my money went" can't begin to say how much I hate this movie. It's much too dark - can't see anything that's going on. I'm pretty good with accents, but I couldn't understand what was being said. The infected were barely there, and when they were, it was fleeting and boring. The plotline was missing in non-action. I think that when the apocalypse comes, it will be in the form of having to survive watching this movie over and over and over......

DVD Review: Zombie apocalypse
Summary: 3 Stars

A man groggily wakes up alone in a hospital in London and wonders where the nursing staff is. He wanders about a bit and quickly realizes that the hospital is completely deserted. A quick recce outside the hospital shows that the entire city is deserted. What happened to all the people? Where did they go? The truth is quickly revealed that a devastating plague (termed the Rage virus) has struck the UK that turns its victims into insanely aggressive zombies that relentlessly attack any uninfected people around them. The virus is transmitted through body fluids, so that even a small bite is like to infect the victim.

The film is effectively broken into two parts. In the first, our brave survivor discovers the truth about the plague and finds a few hearty souls who have also avoided the zombie mobs. He returns home in an effort to try to find out what happened to his family. Like many great films in this genre, there is the classic scene of the survivors strolling through the grocery store (packed with food, but devoid of customers) selecting a wide range of delicacies. The first half of this movie is extremely well done, the atmosphere and the tension are perfect, an all time classic in the post-holocaust/zombie film genre. In the second part of the film, the small band of survivors departs London following a radio signal purportedly broadcast by the Army. The film really loses its way at this point. The commanding officer of the small army unit is crazy and the plot degenerates into a fairly ordinary chase/evasion story where the heroes are trying to avoid both the soldiers and the zombies. The latter half of the film has none of the atmosphere or pathos of the first half.

One interesting fact that struck me about this film is that had it been set in the US, the lone survivors would have quickly armed themselves to the teeth with shotguns, hunting rifles, and perhaps even AR-15s. This film is a great argument against gun control: if there is ever a zombie infestation, we'll need to be armed to deal with it! Don't take away our guns!

Seriously, this is a decent post-apocalyptic film that is undone by a poor and unimaginative ending. Definitely worth a look by anyone with interest in the zombie genre, but not uniquely outstanding.

Description of 28 Days Later [Blu-ray]

Hailed as the most frightening film since The Exorcist, acclaimed Director Danny Boyle's visionary take on zombie horror "isn't just scary???it's absolutely terrifying" (Access Hollywood).

An infirmary patient awakens from a coma to an empty room???in a vacant hospital???in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come???

The director/producer team that created Trainspotting turn their dynamic cinematic imaginations to the classic science fiction scenario of the last people on Earth. Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma to find London deserted--until he runs into a mob of crazed plague victims. He gradually finds other still-human survivors (including Naomie Harris), with whom he heads off across the abandoned countryside to find the source of a radio broadcast that promises salvation. 28 Days Later is basically an updated version of The Omega Man and other post-apocalyptic visions; but while the movie may lack originality, it makes up for it in vivid details and creepy paranoid atmosphere. 28 Days Later's portrait of how people behave in extreme circumstances--written by novelist Alex Garland (The Beach)--will haunt you afterward. Also featuring Brendan Gleeson (The General, Gangs of New York) and Christopher Eccleston (Shallow Grave, The Others). --Bret Fetzer

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