28 Days Later (DVD 2003)

buy this, bit slow paced, but plenty of action where its needed. excellent film overall if you ask me.

The feel of this film is pretty unique.

The fear-factor in this film, as other reviewers have said, isn't from the zombified humans, it's from the 'normal' humans. Sorry to repeat what has been said, but the "I promised them women" line is the scariest in the film and one of the most disturbing I've ever seen.

This is a stylistic masterpiece and is one of the few films that I can watch over again.

As a Brit it is very eerie to see scenery which is so familiar, in such a different way. This is a more "real" horror film than most with characters you can actually believe.

As a huge John Wyndham fan, I can see parallels with Day of the Triffids, but that isn't a bad thing. This feels like a modern adaptation of one of my favourite books.

This DVD always seems to be in the budget range - buy it, I don't think you'll regret it.

A super film considering the budget, great concept and acting is good. Better than the 28 weeks American big budget sequel !

I had never seen this film before i bought it off of ebay, but it was really good. Being an english film 28 days later gives a new and 'un-american' twist to the appocalyptic horror thriller. The film does occassionally look as though it was made for television, this adds though to a more authentic and realistic product. When I watched the film I felt that I was watching something new and different whilst still being entertained. You don't quite know what is going to happen at the end of the film (could go anyway) and there is an alternative ending on the bonus features that is interesting. I would recommend this dvd to anyone between the ages of 18 and 45 who usually likes films in the horror/thriller genre. I find ebay is a great way to get low-price, good quality dvd's to pad out a collection i am really quite proud of! x

28 Days is a disturbing movie, no doubt, yet it stand apart from a host of post-apocalyptic movies - the world is ravaged, don’t guess! Not from a nuclear fallout but by a lethal virus released from a British research facility by a group of animals' rights activists. The virus is so lethal that those who affected change into a permanent state of homicidal rage. Yes, the same old zombies lurking for victims. Within 28 days the virus is spreading across the seas.

England, Paris and New York all fell into the rampage of the virus, turning its denizens to zombies. When a patient named Jim wakes up from a coma in a London hospital he find the hospital and London deserted! Seems like the whole world abandoned him into an empty world! When he finds some people, it was not a pleasant experience. The murderous zombies are on to him; thankfully he was saved by the unaffected. According to a radio broadcast, which promised the answer to the virus plague, their only chance of survival is to go to a military encampment in Manchester.

But there waits the real horror...

The movie is dark and vivid, with a pale glimpse on human psyche and a trial of spirit in the survival game. 28 Days Later is an amalgamation of Lord of the Flies, On The Beach (1959), The Omega Man (1971) but it is neither another Resident Evil nor Living Dead clone. It is supposed to be a study of human character in extreme situations.

Considering it as a British film competing to the special effects galore of Hollywood, the film is the tour de force of British film maker Danny Boyle (Trainspotting). Yes, I mean it; remember from the surreal aerial scene of the meadow with words HELL like a vision and how it turns out. Give credit to Danny Boyle, he deserve it.

Novelist writer Alex Garland’s (The Beach) story is guaranteed to haunt you for days. The zombies are more “authentic” in this film (think of the priest zombie in the Church and the chained zombie soldier in the camp). However, the film is not a mere zombie shocker, it’s more than that it’s the study in human character in extreme situations and I had this feeling that the film is also inspired from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Cillian Murphy and Naomi Harris are excellent as Jim and Selena, the characters Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton both turned down and Robert Carlyle was offered the role of Major Henry West which was played by Christopher Eccleston. Brendan Gleeson and Megan Burns are giving exceptional performance as father and daughter survivors, Frank and Hannah.

Overall, the movie is excellent, one of the best post apocalyptic movies I have seen. Unlike Resident Evil series, the movie is devoid of any superhuman hero stuff or computer game style. The people are more realistic and the zombies scarier, 28 Days Later is an exhilarating ride into terror.
28 Days Later…

Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomi Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston
Genere: Sci-fi/Horror/Drama
Year 2002
Language English
Country UK
Colour: Technicolor
Running Time: 113 minutes

Wanted to watch the film and it was cheaper than buying new and alittle more than renting. Sellers description was accurate.

They are not ZOMBIES, they are not ZOMBIES. Rant over, humans have contracted a viral infection, they haven't risen from the dead, as some people will have you beleive. However Danny Boyle(Director) has took the zombie genre and gave it a new breath of life. Watching a small group of survivors struggle to get out of a infested London, even amazes me now, how he got London to look deserted. Interesting character bonding, as they struggle to survive. Only christopher eccleston can spoil it at times, with his over acting.
Enjoy

I decided to rent this movie after hearing it was the scariest thing since The Exorcist. DVD had 5.1 surround Sound and Widescreen picture. Interactive Menu etc. Also had special features and an different ending.

The movie starts at an animal research facility where monkeys are caged up. Some people break in to free the poor monkeys thinking they are doing the right thing. But how wrong they are. The monkeys had been infected with a killer virus that makes anyone who catches it totally mad for flesh. The virus is spread through blood. 28 days later we then see the extent of the infection. Empty streets and deserted buildings. But a handful of people have survived the infection. The film takes you on a journey of survivers meeting up and trying to escape the madness of infection and get to safer ground.

There are lot's of twists and turns and jumps to keep you on the edge and you cannot guess what will happen next. The fight for survival is tough but friendship and love still matters. Who will survive??

I did not find this film that scary. But I did enjoy it and found it entertaining and exciting. As I could not guess at all where it was going. Well thought out and I liked the soundtrack. I give it a 8 out of 10.

I wanted to purchase this film as I'm a keen zombie film fan and the attraction of seeing a deserted London was too much to bear.

However, the film had massive plot flaws which are hard to explain without giving the film away..
1. Why so few survivors?
2. Why ,after only 28 days, were the soldiers acting the way they did? Surely they of all people would handle things better.

Also, the box smelt of stale smoke but that's only a minor issue

Really good film to watch, good storyline, well acted and directed.

Also well worth watching is 28 Weeks later.

Really good film! Everybody should watch this film at least once, in my opinion it is alot better than 28 weeks later. I was lucky and got this DVD for £0.99. I would gladly have paid more :-)

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good movie i've started collecting living dead movies but any living dead dvd is good as long as it was made above the year 2000 i bought this dvd because im starting to collecting living dead movies

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This is quite a strange movie quite slow paced, although it is directed brilliantly. The plot is based on Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus which spreads fast throughout the UK in which a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. It is one of those rare horror films which does not only inform the viewer with nice, gory slaughters but also with a share of psychological goodies. To really appreciate this movie, Looking at 'Children of Men'( a film directed by Alfonso Cuarón) might offer some insight into what it feels like to have no future.

London is a graveyard. Once-packed streets are deserted. Shops empty. An eerie silence reigns. And, no, there's not a tube strike. There's a zombie invasion.

Well, technically the monsters of Danny Boyle's bloody horror don't qualify as zombies. As pedants are sure to point out, they are not the living dead but 'the infected' - poor unfortunates who have caught a deadly virus which turns them into slathering beasts intent on killing anything in sight. Do they remind you of anything? Oh yes - zombies, that's it.

But contrary to horror movie tradition, these beasts are fast. Let's face it, movie heroes don't find sidestepping one shuffling, decomposing automaton all that difficult - it's the relentless crush of a mass of the blighters that gets 'em in the end. The creatures in "28 Days Later", though, are rage-fuelled humans with unusual strength and speed.

It's not an original idea - George A Romero's "The Crazies" tweaked the formula back in 1973 - but in the hands of "Trainspotting" director Boyle, it's the basis for a stylish and occasionally very scary movie.

The script, from "The Beach" novelist Alex Garland, is far from special, throwing a ragtag bunch of survivors on a road trip to reach safety at Christopher Eccleston's military base. The dialogue's clunky, the scenario's derivative. But, despite Boyle's decision to shoot on digital video (an ugly medium), the zippy, brutal action sequences are gripping, the violence sometimes shocking.

If you're a zombie aficionado it may all prove too familiar, but casual punters should prepare for jumps. You'll be scared to (living) death.

Amazing film, totally revolutionary twist to the cliche zombie apocalypse. Explains unanswered questions and asks new ones. Only qualm, soldiers at the end seem a bit overly horny considering its only been a month... Must see though!

This film is so well made you end up believing that this really could happen. A virus spread by accident that infects most of the country. The survivors then have to fight to survive.

Called 28 days later because that is the length of time that 'Jim' is in a coma, he awakes to a seeingly abandoned, errily quiet London...

Christopher Eccleston is brilliant as the misguided Army man...in fact all the cast are faultless...

Understated but action packed.

28 Days Later is one of those small budget British films that just hits the right spot.
It tells the story of a man who awakes from a coma.
In the time he has been in the coma, the world has been taken over by mad zombies!
It tells the story of his attempt to travel to a safe house, protected by some soldiers.

This film was very enjoyable. alot of scary and action in parts. decided to buy it because havent seen it before and someone in the family recomennded i'd buy it.

this was a great film, found my self so into it that my children were able to make me jump,best film i have watched for a long time

I found this movie ok but a little confusing too.
i though there was a lot of unessary killing as well.
otherwise i thought it was ok.

lovely film been trying for ages to get the film well cheap because it was a film i wanted to get i like buying from ebay