Note when Jim first woke up, he had no idea what was going on. He had no idea where everyone was. It's London, people should be everywhere. But nothing :(
- Explaining the initial infection: The lab could very easily have been just one part of a larger complex, the size wasn't really clear. Security for a building like that would be a few guards, cameras, alarms and electronic door locks controlled by security badges. The cameras and alarms wouldn't help much against the infected. Badge locked doors are only locked on the outside but can just be pushed open from the inside as part of building code requirements in case of a fire or other disaster. The one scientist staying late was able to call security, but that's just going to provide maybe two more people to spread the infection leaving roughly seven(?) infected people at ground zero who can freely leave the building and start spreading it to anyone in the area long before the authorities are even notified that something is wrong. This is in England, and in Europe in general there's not that great of distance between any given town or city, so a running infected could get to anywhere neighboring town/city/etc. in probably under an hour based on how frantic and energetic the infection makes them. The extremely short infection time and the ferocity of the infected themselves means that most likely even one infected escaping into the public would start an uncontrolled spread across the country, and here there were multiple and it starting during the night where people would be caught the most off guard. The ones we see who are basically hanging out in one place until disturbed are ones that have been infected for weeks and are probably starting to starve, but during the first few days or more it was they were probably continuously rampaging everywhere. I think it was pretty believable as far as the infection spreading goes. The sequel is also very good. | : ] '
Lesson to be remembered from the tunnel scene, if you see a bunch of creatures not worried about you running in the same direction, they're running from something.
God, will never forget last year going running every day through the streets of central London at the height of lockdown and not seeing another human being anywhere. Felt just like this movie. So creepy.
Some context to the mindset of the UK in 2002 that may not be apparent to viewers today - 1. When 28DL came out, Britain had just experienced an epidemic of a highly infectious disease. Foot & Mouth affected cattle not people, but it was incredibly infectious and easily transferred - it could travel on the sole of a person’s shoe. Drastic measures were taken and any sign of infection in a cow would mean the whole herd being slaughtered and burned. It was a very grim year. 2. Britain is very attached to its Rabies-free status, and the idea of a Rabies outbreak in the UK has long been presented to the public as something not unlike 28DL, as if the country would suddenly be swept by hordes of savage, mad dogs. For example, a 1980s TV drama about a UK Rabies outbreak was called ‘The Mad Death’. You can bet this anxiety helped to inform 28DL. And of course in French, Rabies is called... 'Le Rage'. 3. Animal Rights activism was very visible in the 1990s, sometimes in very unscrupulous or violent forms. Mass-release of animals was a common objective. So, at the time the raid on the lab depicted in 28DL looked pretty believable… 4. Also - not unique to the UK at all, but in the late 1990s we were already worrying about The Next Pandemic. The possibility of an Ebola outbreak was particularly frightening, and there was a best-selling book at the time, The Hot Zone, which recounted how monkeys infected with Ebola had reached the US. The 1995 film 'Outbreak' runs with the same idea. Ebola is horrible, and makes you bleed uncontrollably - there seems to be a little of that in the blood-vomiting symptoms of Rage (and a comic 'prequel' to the film asserted that Rage had been hybridized with Ebola).
Wonderful take on the zombie film genre. Was extremely impressed with how they managed to film in a bustling city like London and made it look abandoned.
Early hours on a Sunday morning in Summer (so Dawn is filmed as if it's sunset) - they still had to digitally remove cars visible in the distance, though. And they hired a bunch of attractive people to stand picket at the shoots to keep the occasional pedestrian (mostly clubbers going home) out of shot. Mind you, there are certain parts of central London that do (or did) get *really* still and quiet on a Sunday, just because they're primarily places of business and mostly shut on a Sunday (even shops wouldn't open til mid-morning due to Sunday Trading laws). Some of the major scenes were shot in the area of Warren Street, which is a good example of somewhere where very little happened before 9am on a Sunday circa 2002.
This film is set in England, which is a very heavy populated country. Any infection of this kind would easily spread around, due to the flow of people and the distance between big cities is not that great as its a small land mass. The rona has shown us just this much in the last 18 months.
One of my favorites, if not my favorite horror film. Cillian does a killer job here as usual. Also as a finnish guy I understood that the helicopter guy said we'll send a helicopter
Wow, I saw this years ago and didn't realize how many people were in it, Murphy, Eccleston, Gleeson ... all actors I've learned to appreciate in other things since then. Glad you reacted to this, that was a good reminder. Oh, and cool make-up , you
One of Danny Boyle's best movies that he directed, and it is truly the reinvention of the zombie horror genre, even though they're never called "zombies" but they call them "infected" instead.
The director used an early digital camera to get that look. It works, I think the movie looks great. It's different. I don't know why I even bought the blu-ray, when it wasn't even filmed in HD. It extremely easy for a virus to spread, when it only takes 20 seconds for someone to start attacking others, and infecting them. You try to stop them. You get one bite, or scratch, or a drop of blood in your mouth, 20 seconds later you're attacking someone. Also, you saw Shaun of the Dead, a couple weeks ago.. At the end of the movie, Shaun is flipping through channels, and someone on TV says something about "rage-infected monkeys." A great reference.
@@fjparasite1172 I'm now imagining 'a nasty explosive device that fires a huge two handed sword in a particular direction. They're often rigged with a trip-wire.' 🤣
I had a lot of the same questions you did by the end of the movie. Fortunately the sequel answers a decent amount of them. I’m guessing the director wanted us to be as uninformed about the virus as the other characters. Which is why we are left in the dark about a lot until the next movie.
If i recall correctly the actress who played Hanna is the daughter of a racing driver. They only had a short time to film the London scenes so they used small digital video camera's hence why it looks unusual also they could only film early in the morning before rush hour as they had to close the street and clear up as quickly as possible.
Although I agree with "a lab should have tight security, to stop letting the virus out", that scene is a very belivable one. Why? Well, first of all, those animal-lovers broke in with ease, which means there is no big security. Also, noone knew what the virus would do to humans, as it was tested on monkeys only. And when the virus did it's job, there was noone to warn the security about the breakout. The moment those newly-enraged saw anyone, they would attack. Remember, how Jim reacted to a person running at him? Not until the last moment he acted - he was surprised, shocked, did not understand what's happening. And there you have one more enraged. Then three more. And the more they bite or even spit, the more it escalates. And then come the bugs, vermin and birds. As to why this was done in the small lab in the first place - maybe, it was a small independent lab, that made a big breakthrough? Like Microsoft was born in a garage... Or it may be just a way of a big company to "secure" itself in case anything goes wrong. Who knows?.. Anyways, that's just my rant. I really like your content as you give me an opportunity to rewatch old and favorite movies, and find something more special about them. Or sometimes even revisit those I thought were not my type, yet thanks to your reaction, I found some moments I missed or misunderstood, and the movie is great. Keep doing what you are doing, cause you are killing it! Thank you
@@mikemath9508 If they'd started from the O and worked their way to the front, they could've gone "LO" -> "LLO" -> "ELLO"... which would've at least sounded a tad Cockney!
I believe those cars are called black cabs. Something you’ll find in London. The training you have to go though to become a driver is supposed to extremely hard.
The low quality look was a combination of intent and cost savings... 35mm film is expensive to shoot while a few digital cameras could be bought outright for what it costs to rent the 35mm cameras and film/processing Plus the cameras used were small and lightweight cameras designed for handheld shooting which allowed for the kinds of shots seen in the movie And on top of that they further degraded the already low 480i resolution in editing to make it look even worse The very end of the film and I think the opening with the monkeys were shot on film
He was hooked up to IV in the hospital which provides you with plenty of energy and nutrients, which is why only drinking a soda would give you enough energy. Trust me youtube doctors i know, i was on an IV 6 days straight 1 time. Was still hungry when i got off the IV but still had plenty of energy to run around. IV keeps you hydrated and energized.
Plus thats what yoir stored body fat is form your body lives on it just like food. People dont need to constantly eat food. Though cilian murphy lost a lot of weight for the role to show he woke up before getting to the point his body ran out of fat. The main issue is hydration, cant survive anywhere near as long without water as you can without food.
23:29 There are two endings to this movie. In the other one Jim dies there and Hannah and Selena leave to fight another day. . 25:30 It was "hello" so it could say "hell" there 23:33 :)
Great movie. I grew up with this. Also, trivia related, the camera quality was intentional to make this movie more scary. It was shot with Canon digital camcorders. It is a movie that made The Walking Dead today a masterpiece. Love the reaction!
This was one of the earlier movies to make the switch from being shot on film to digital cameras. That could be one of the main reasons it looks the way it does. The digital cameras used to make movies today are a lot nicer, of course, and also well into the tens of thousands in USD, even into the $100k range, last I tried looking up some of the highest end RED cameras.
Someone gets infected in one place. Moves a few miles away. Infects everyone they meet. They infect others. Human contacts does the rest…Does this sound familiar, does it by any chance resonate? All horror fantasy we know☺️
This fast infection (like 10 seconds) would actually spread much slower than a longer gestation period infection. With the longer infection terms, infected people running from the spread travel far and wide, and spread it much further.
@@aj897 Nope. Thinking of bubonic plague, Spanish Flu, Ebola virus outbreaks, makes the current business rather like a nasty, nagging flu with a few deaths. Actually this movie’s closest medical thing is if Ebola spread like the Black Death. And instead of death everyone became undead/crazy (depending how you interpret the condition in the film).
@@wllulu - Stop and think about it for a second... how would this even spread internationally? A whole plane or ship would be infected in no time at all, and would never make it overseas. That was the thing that kind of bothered me about this one. With such a rapid transmission/infection rate, it would essentially halt itself in the location it started.
It’s so interesting because they’re basically just people with an illness like you can think of it as the flu, but the symptoms give people uncontrollable rage which makes it hard to not look at them as zombies.
This is the first zombie movie to make zombies faster than slow version which is cool and this movie ranked at #100 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo
At the time it came out there had been a bit of a 'scare' in the media about things like 'Road Rage', the name given to people suddenly behaving violently when provoked by somebody else's bad driving. The idea that people were suddenly and spontaneously become violent was sort of in the culture at the time - 28DL deliberately touches on this to some extent... From what I recall, Jim's involvement in a traffic accident is thematically tied in to that, though it's more obvious in the film's original ending.
The worst part about Jim's death was that, after watching the movie a few time, one realizes that the soldiers were WAITING for one of the men to get infected before showing themselves, in order to lessen the competition.
You should see the radical alternate ending. That’s what it is dubbed. It was a planned one to try to shoot but due to not enough finances to both shoot it and for the appropriate effects to make it happened it never made it passed storyboards. It’s pretty good. I think someone uploaded it here on TH-cam.
@DuaffuM&S Um.... Hun...Jim wasn't infected, the dad was. What did you want them to do, let them tear his own daughter a part? And Jim killed a monster. A monster that tried to eat him.
How does the infection spread across the country? Well, we saw some infected walking in the countryside at the end of the movie. And the soldiers had set up their HQ in a rural area, but were attacked now and then. I just assume that there were more of them wandering around at the start of the infection as long as they were stronger and not close to starving. And long way travel could have been by train. One or more infected get on a train, and by the time it reaches its destination all that are on board are dead or infected. Ships may even take the infected over seas. Thinking of that, if the infection is cleared on every piece of land, you would still have to take into account eventual zombie ships drifting on the oceans.
It's true, the chimpanzees in the laboratory _had_ the rage virus, but none of them were showing any symptoms. That suggests they were all immune, and famously, immunities are not as _contagious_ as diseases.
If you've watched or read The Walking Dead, you'll notice that they both start off the same way regarding the coma guy waking up to a damn zombie apocalypse. It's a similar character study/interaction/episodic story style to boot. But, this did come out first tho.
In fact 28DL borrows its opening from John Wyndham's book Day of the Triffids (along with a number of other details). As it happens, the first time I saw a trailer for 28DL it was at the front of the first Resident Evil film - which, of course, ends in exactly the same way that 28DL and Walking Dead begin, somebody waking in a hospital to find the world has collapsed... Somewhere along the line it obviously became a staple for stories of this kind...
It's one of my favorite favorite movies when I saw it in theaters in 2003 it's an interesting take on an infection that's not zombie related! It's an infection in the blood that causes them to turn into raging raging infected people! That monkey bit the lady on the neck she turned that fast into an infected raging person then all she had to do is bite the doctor and that's how it starts they probably thought of it and did everything they could to warn everybody but no one believes you ultimate guess in 28 days goes by and you see this guy wake up in the hospital from injury and he's by himself trying to figure out what happened to the world at the beginning of the movie
No one recording, that was him remembering. And the dude didn't get bit, he got cut and got infected blood in his cut or at least probably did, didn't wait long enough to see.
In The original (and I guess officially an alternate since it was shot, produced, edited, and released) ending, Jim died after they crashed through the gate. It’s on TH-cam
18:32 "I moved us from the blockade, I set the radio broadcasting and I promised them women. 'Cause women mean a future." Women are, however, people to be _courted,_ _romantically,_ by civilized _men;_ not taken by _savages_ with total disregard for what they _want._
Although we're share alot of DNA with chimps not every species reacts to viruses or infections the same, might be why the chimps weren't raging out of control
This film cost 5 million pounds to make, making it one of the most expensive British films to date and most of it was spent on the film being shot digitally which gives it it's unique visual style
It was nowhere near the most expensive British movie to that point. Charlotte Gray came out just a year earlier and cost £27 million, and most people never even heard of it. Notting Hill cost £30 in 1999 and Bridget Jones Diary around £18 million in 2001 28 days later was considered to have been made on only a moderate budget by British standards - especially considering there were action scenes and difficult shooting locations- but was financially very successful compared to this budget.
@@DJLtravelvids All those films you mention3d were American funded productions made by Working Title whereas 28bDays Later was made by The UK film council which was funded mostly by the national lottery. Charlotte Gray cost only £14million(nearly 20 million us dollars)
@@kevincooper1982 appreciate the extra info. I think we might simply have different definitions of what constitutes a "British" movie. Here's some extra info that may interest you: In 2002 the House of Commons published a report on the state of the British Film industry called "The British Film Industry ". Its available to view online. There they specifically define what makes a film "British". One definition includes films that fall under Schedule 1 of the Films Act 1985. This includes the Harry Potter and James Bond films. This is a statutory definition, so difficult to argue with. I guess the budgets for these films eclipse my own examples as well as 28 days later.
@@DJLtravelvids Kudos to you for being diplomatic and acknowledging we have different definitions instead of the usual going around in circles arguing and ultimately losing the point of the argument as happens a lot on here 👍
As a general rule, I don't like zombie movies, but I did like this one. It was tightly and smartly written, with fine dialogue and good, likeable characters. It also had the first "fast zombies" I'd ever seen. Also, in most countries where some sort of Gaelic is the mother language (and Ireland is one of those...), the letter "C" always has the "hard" pronunciation, as if it were a "k." So, Cillian Murphy's first name is pronounced as if it were spelled, "Killian." 🧐
The '70s film NO BLADE OF GRASS deals with a worldwide vegetation disease where a group of Londoners head north towards a certain farm and turn into coldblooded murderers just to survive the journey. It's a harrowing tale.
1. The reason the filming loked different was because of the use a video camera instead of film. It wasn't as low-res as VHS though, just early digital. 2. The main problem with zombie- and other 'fast' movie epidemics is that they should always be easy to control. If a virus acts too fast and deadly, it bascially eradicates itself. The hidden ones, with longer incubation and thus higher rate of transmission are the dangerous ones ... but since last year everyone is a virology specialist, ya know ...
she said it wasn't just happening in some random village she said it was happening in the city right in front of them as in the in the city , you completely miss heard what she said
its plausible someone could awake from a coma on fluids after 28 days, yeah you would feel like absolute shit but the human body is an amazing thing and tbh it wouldn't make much of a film if he was recovering the whole time. At the start when the animal rights people free the chimps they probably left most of the doors open when they came in for a quick escape making it easier for the infected to get out and anyone responding to an incident wouldn't have known that four rage induced humans and a chimp was about to attack them. Once they got out of that building it was game over
Time to watch the sequel 28 Weeks Later.... It will give you more perspective in this Zombie Pandemic world and may answer some of those unanswered questions you have
This was a low-budget movie, shot on digital cameras, Canon XLR-1s, at a time before HD was really a thing. If it were film, they could simply rescan the negatives at a higher resolution. This is why classics look great in 4k. But since the source is a digital file at 480p, there is no way to truly upscale. This movie will look dated forever. :(
They aren't zombies (in the traditional sense anyway) they basically have a rage virus. Its why you don't have to head shot them to kill them. 😁
Note when Jim first woke up, he had no idea what was going on. He had no idea where everyone was. It's London, people should be everywhere. But nothing :(
Yeah
Been there 2 years ago
After seeing a desert street in London, normal people would turn on the Spider-Sense
- Explaining the initial infection:
The lab could very easily have been just one part of a larger complex, the size wasn't really clear. Security for a building like that would be a few guards, cameras, alarms and electronic door locks controlled by security badges. The cameras and alarms wouldn't help much against the infected. Badge locked doors are only locked on the outside but can just be pushed open from the inside as part of building code requirements in case of a fire or other disaster. The one scientist staying late was able to call security, but that's just going to provide maybe two more people to spread the infection leaving roughly seven(?) infected people at ground zero who can freely leave the building and start spreading it to anyone in the area long before the authorities are even notified that something is wrong. This is in England, and in Europe in general there's not that great of distance between any given town or city, so a running infected could get to anywhere neighboring town/city/etc. in probably under an hour based on how frantic and energetic the infection makes them. The extremely short infection time and the ferocity of the infected themselves means that most likely even one infected escaping into the public would start an uncontrolled spread across the country, and here there were multiple and it starting during the night where people would be caught the most off guard. The ones we see who are basically hanging out in one place until disturbed are ones that have been infected for weeks and are probably starting to starve, but during the first few days or more it was they were probably continuously rampaging everywhere. I think it was pretty believable as far as the infection spreading goes.
The sequel is also very good.
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Legit explanation.
Lesson to be remembered from the tunnel scene, if you see a bunch of creatures not worried about you running in the same direction, they're running from something.
God, will never forget last year going running every day through the streets of central London at the height of lockdown and not seeing another human being anywhere. Felt just like this movie. So creepy.
Thank god you were able to outrun Covid but then again Covid only comes out at certain times and only enters certain businesses.
Not just London, the first lockdown was really weird 😐
Some context to the mindset of the UK in 2002 that may not be apparent to viewers today -
1. When 28DL came out, Britain had just experienced an epidemic of a highly infectious disease. Foot & Mouth affected cattle not people, but it was incredibly infectious and easily transferred - it could travel on the sole of a person’s shoe. Drastic measures were taken and any sign of infection in a cow would mean the whole herd being slaughtered and burned. It was a very grim year.
2. Britain is very attached to its Rabies-free status, and the idea of a Rabies outbreak in the UK has long been presented to the public as something not unlike 28DL, as if the country would suddenly be swept by hordes of savage, mad dogs. For example, a 1980s TV drama about a UK Rabies outbreak was called ‘The Mad Death’. You can bet this anxiety helped to inform 28DL. And of course in French, Rabies is called... 'Le Rage'.
3. Animal Rights activism was very visible in the 1990s, sometimes in very unscrupulous or violent forms. Mass-release of animals was a common objective. So, at the time the raid on the lab depicted in 28DL looked pretty believable…
4. Also - not unique to the UK at all, but in the late 1990s we were already worrying about The Next Pandemic. The possibility of an Ebola outbreak was particularly frightening, and there was a best-selling book at the time, The Hot Zone, which recounted how monkeys infected with Ebola had reached the US. The 1995 film 'Outbreak' runs with the same idea. Ebola is horrible, and makes you bleed uncontrollably - there seems to be a little of that in the blood-vomiting symptoms of Rage (and a comic 'prequel' to the film asserted that Rage had been hybridized with Ebola).
#3: not many understand the concept of ecoterrorism and just how extreme some factions/cells were in the late 80s
Wow this is a super helpful comment, I learned something from almost every sentence
This movie is still great. Wonder if you'll react to 28 weeks later as well because the start of that movie is friggin' intense!
Main problem with that film was all the hand-held camera work.
Yeah her anxiety levels will be through the roof watching that opening
the opening is great. the rest is retreading this movie.
lmao me and my ex had one of our biggest arguments because of that scene 😂😂😂 the wife deserved it, she made her choice 😂😂😂😂
Blob and 28 Weeks Later are A Must!!!!
Wonderful take on the zombie film genre. Was extremely impressed with how they managed to film in a bustling city like London and made it look abandoned.
Early hours on a Sunday morning in Summer (so Dawn is filmed as if it's sunset) - they still had to digitally remove cars visible in the distance, though. And they hired a bunch of attractive people to stand picket at the shoots to keep the occasional pedestrian (mostly clubbers going home) out of shot. Mind you, there are certain parts of central London that do (or did) get *really* still and quiet on a Sunday, just because they're primarily places of business and mostly shut on a Sunday (even shops wouldn't open til mid-morning due to Sunday Trading laws). Some of the major scenes were shot in the area of Warren Street, which is a good example of somewhere where very little happened before 9am on a Sunday circa 2002.
This film is set in England, which is a very heavy populated country. Any infection of this kind would easily spread around, due to the flow of people and the distance between big cities is not that great as its a small land mass. The rona has shown us just this much in the last 18 months.
One of my favorites, if not my favorite horror film. Cillian does a killer job here as usual. Also as a finnish guy I understood that the helicopter guy said we'll send a helicopter
Wow, I saw this years ago and didn't realize how many people were in it, Murphy, Eccleston, Gleeson ... all actors I've learned to appreciate in other things since then. Glad you reacted to this, that was a good reminder.
Oh, and cool make-up , you
That's what happens when you don't get your daily regimen of bananas, you go ape shit. Love this movie. Great reaction!😄😆👍
One of Danny Boyle's best movies that he directed, and it is truly the reinvention of the zombie horror genre, even though they're never called "zombies" but they call them "infected" instead.
I dare you to watch THE BLOB! (80s one) Written by Frank Darabont which should be more than enough reason to watch it...
one of the Big Three perfect remakes. Right alongside The Fly and The Thing remakes.
Well, everyone, this was a blast.. See you guys in 28 WEEKS...
The director used an early digital camera to get that look. It works, I think the movie looks great. It's different. I don't know why I even bought the blu-ray, when it wasn't even filmed in HD.
It extremely easy for a virus to spread, when it only takes 20 seconds for someone to start attacking others, and infecting them.
You try to stop them. You get one bite, or scratch, or a drop of blood in your mouth, 20 seconds later you're attacking someone.
Also, you saw Shaun of the Dead, a couple weeks ago.. At the end of the movie, Shaun is flipping through channels, and someone on TV says something about "rage-infected monkeys." A great reference.
Jim's energy explained: Adrenaline. The rage zombies explained: It's a movie. 🍿
24:10 "indistinct radio chatter" = Finnish :)
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25:08 They talked about sendind a helicopter there to get them.
A Claymore is a nasty explosive device that fires hundreds of steel balls in a particular direction. They're often rigged with a trip-wire.
Also a huge two hander sword.
@@fjparasite1172 I'm now imagining 'a nasty explosive device that fires a huge two handed sword in a particular direction. They're often rigged with a trip-wire.' 🤣
One of the best zombie movies ever!
Ironically, they're not really zombies.
I had a lot of the same questions you did by the end of the movie. Fortunately the sequel answers a decent amount of them. I’m guessing the director wanted us to be as uninformed about the virus as the other characters. Which is why we are left in the dark about a lot until the next movie.
If i recall correctly the actress who played Hanna is the daughter of a racing driver.
They only had a short time to film the London scenes so they used small digital video camera's hence why it looks unusual also they could only film early in the morning before rush hour as they had to close the street and clear up as quickly as possible.
Although I agree with "a lab should have tight security, to stop letting the virus out", that scene is a very belivable one. Why? Well, first of all, those animal-lovers broke in with ease, which means there is no big security. Also, noone knew what the virus would do to humans, as it was tested on monkeys only. And when the virus did it's job, there was noone to warn the security about the breakout. The moment those newly-enraged saw anyone, they would attack. Remember, how Jim reacted to a person running at him? Not until the last moment he acted - he was surprised, shocked, did not understand what's happening. And there you have one more enraged. Then three more. And the more they bite or even spit, the more it escalates. And then come the bugs, vermin and birds.
As to why this was done in the small lab in the first place - maybe, it was a small independent lab, that made a big breakthrough? Like Microsoft was born in a garage... Or it may be just a way of a big company to "secure" itself in case anything goes wrong. Who knows?..
Anyways, that's just my rant. I really like your content as you give me an opportunity to rewatch old and favorite movies, and find something more special about them. Or sometimes even revisit those I thought were not my type, yet thanks to your reaction, I found some moments I missed or misunderstood, and the movie is great. Keep doing what you are doing, cause you are killing it! Thank you
At the end, they finished making the "O" for their "HELLO" last, which means they barely missed leaving it saying "HELL".
i would have just made one L and set the O one space after the first L
@@mikemath9508 If they'd started from the O and worked their way to the front, they could've gone "LO" -> "LLO" -> "ELLO"... which would've at least sounded a tad Cockney!
I believe those cars are called black cabs. Something you’ll find in London. The training you have to go though to become a driver is supposed to extremely hard.
The low quality look was a combination of intent and cost savings... 35mm film is expensive to shoot while a few digital cameras could be bought outright for what it costs to rent the 35mm cameras and film/processing
Plus the cameras used were small and lightweight cameras designed for handheld shooting which allowed for the kinds of shots seen in the movie
And on top of that they further degraded the already low 480i resolution in editing to make it look even worse
The very end of the film and I think the opening with the monkeys were shot on film
"There should be precautions; You can't have a laboratory without these things" *Fast Forward to present day Pandemic* sheesh
He was hooked up to IV in the hospital which provides you with plenty of energy and nutrients, which is why only drinking a soda would give you enough energy. Trust me youtube doctors i know, i was on an IV 6 days straight 1 time. Was still hungry when i got off the IV but still had plenty of energy to run around. IV keeps you hydrated and energized.
Plus thats what yoir stored body fat is form your body lives on it just like food. People dont need to constantly eat food.
Though cilian murphy lost a lot of weight for the role to show he woke up before getting to the point his body ran out of fat.
The main issue is hydration, cant survive anywhere near as long without water as you can without food.
It was in London,and the car they were driving was a London black cab
they are built like tanks, they have a very tight turning circle..
23:29 There are two endings to this movie. In the other one Jim dies there and Hannah and Selena leave to fight another day.
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25:30 It was "hello" so it could say "hell" there 23:33 :)
Love the face paint
This is one of the few Horror movies I enjoy. Empty London is such a powerful scene.
I hope you do 28 weeks later for this Halloween :D
"You just wanna fall in love and fuck?"
Duaffy: *Surprised pikachu*
lol.
In a movie where zombies exist, don't get concerned about the minor technicalities.
You are right :)
Great movie. I grew up with this. Also, trivia related, the camera quality was intentional to make this movie more scary. It was shot with Canon digital camcorders. It is a movie that made The Walking Dead today a masterpiece. Love the reaction!
This was one of the earlier movies to make the switch from being shot on film to digital cameras. That could be one of the main reasons it looks the way it does. The digital cameras used to make movies today are a lot nicer, of course, and also well into the tens of thousands in USD, even into the $100k range, last I tried looking up some of the highest end RED cameras.
It was the decision to make the film look this way, nothing to do with technology.
Someone gets infected in one place. Moves a few miles away. Infects everyone they meet. They infect others. Human contacts does the rest…Does this sound familiar, does it by any chance resonate? All horror fantasy we know☺️
This fast infection (like 10 seconds) would actually spread much slower than a longer gestation period infection. With the longer infection terms, infected people running from the spread travel far and wide, and spread it much further.
@@aj897 Nope. Thinking of bubonic plague, Spanish Flu, Ebola virus outbreaks, makes the current business rather like a nasty, nagging flu with a few deaths. Actually this movie’s closest medical thing is if Ebola spread like the Black Death. And instead of death everyone became undead/crazy (depending how you interpret the condition in the film).
@@Mr.EkshinI think it spread easier in the country but slower internationally
@@wllulu - Stop and think about it for a second... how would this even spread internationally? A whole plane or ship would be infected in no time at all, and would never make it overseas.
That was the thing that kind of bothered me about this one. With such a rapid transmission/infection rate, it would essentially halt itself in the location it started.
It’s so interesting because they’re basically just people with an illness like you can think of it as the flu, but the symptoms give people uncontrollable rage which makes it hard to not look at them as zombies.
its great how you predicted the twist in 28 weeks later
This is the first zombie movie to make zombies faster than slow version which is cool and this movie ranked at #100 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo
9:00 "Yeah. I don't think _night_ is when these guys come out."
Well, no. But they're a lot more able to sneak _up_ on you when it's _dark._
I was just thinking of this movie today, one of my favourites !!
What gets me about this movie is there's a sort of Symbolism that comes with it
At the time it came out there had been a bit of a 'scare' in the media about things like 'Road Rage', the name given to people suddenly behaving violently when provoked by somebody else's bad driving. The idea that people were suddenly and spontaneously become violent was sort of in the culture at the time - 28DL deliberately touches on this to some extent... From what I recall, Jim's involvement in a traffic accident is thematically tied in to that, though it's more obvious in the film's original ending.
The worst part about Jim's death was that, after watching the movie a few time, one realizes that the soldiers were WAITING for one of the men to get infected before showing themselves, in order to lessen the competition.
Hey, better 4 days later then 28 👻 🥁
we highly recommend for the next upcoming halloween special reactions, the classic *Land of the Dead* from the legendary director George Romero
28 days later is the best looking horror movie from 2000's era film 🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♀️🔪🔪🔪
Watch child's play, watch child's play,watch the sequel to this movie 28 weeks later,oh and I love you duaffy, take it easy and take care
You should see the radical alternate ending. That’s what it is dubbed. It was a planned one to try to shoot but due to not enough finances to both shoot it and for the appropriate effects to make it happened it never made it passed storyboards. It’s pretty good. I think someone uploaded it here on TH-cam.
I love your makeup!
@DuaffuM&S
Um....
Hun...Jim wasn't infected, the dad was.
What did you want them to do, let them tear his own daughter a part?
And Jim killed a monster. A monster that tried to eat him.
How does the infection spread across the country?
Well, we saw some infected walking in the countryside at the end of the movie. And the soldiers had set up their HQ in a rural area, but were attacked now and then. I just assume that there were more of them wandering around at the start of the infection as long as they were stronger and not close to starving.
And long way travel could have been by train. One or more infected get on a train, and by the time it reaches its destination all that are on board are dead or infected. Ships may even take the infected over seas. Thinking of that, if the infection is cleared on every piece of land, you would still have to take into account eventual zombie ships drifting on the oceans.
It's true, the chimpanzees in the laboratory _had_ the rage virus, but none of them were showing any symptoms. That suggests they were all immune, and famously, immunities are not as _contagious_ as diseases.
If you've watched or read The Walking Dead, you'll notice that they both start off the same way regarding the coma guy waking up to a damn zombie apocalypse. It's a similar character study/interaction/episodic story style to boot. But, this did come out first tho.
In fact 28DL borrows its opening from John Wyndham's book Day of the Triffids (along with a number of other details). As it happens, the first time I saw a trailer for 28DL it was at the front of the first Resident Evil film - which, of course, ends in exactly the same way that 28DL and Walking Dead begin, somebody waking in a hospital to find the world has collapsed... Somewhere along the line it obviously became a staple for stories of this kind...
Awesome film it hit's even harder because I live in the UK.... just glad the pandemic didn't turn out like this lol.
Not yet...
It's one of my favorite favorite movies when I saw it in theaters in 2003 it's an interesting take on an infection that's not zombie related! It's an infection in the blood that causes them to turn into raging raging infected people! That monkey bit the lady on the neck she turned that fast into an infected raging person then all she had to do is bite the doctor and that's how it starts they probably thought of it and did everything they could to warn everybody but no one believes you ultimate guess in 28 days goes by and you see this guy wake up in the hospital from injury and he's by himself trying to figure out what happened to the world at the beginning of the movie
No one recording, that was him remembering. And the dude didn't get bit, he got cut and got infected blood in his cut or at least probably did, didn't wait long enough to see.
Great look!
In The original (and I guess officially an alternate since it was shot, produced, edited, and released) ending, Jim died after they crashed through the gate. It’s on TH-cam
Yeeeees. I bloody love this one!
28 Weeks Later is worth watching.
turtleneck duaffy feels like a different reactor
18:32 "I moved us from the blockade, I set the radio broadcasting and I promised them women. 'Cause women mean a future."
Women are, however, people to be _courted,_ _romantically,_ by civilized _men;_ not taken by _savages_ with total disregard for what they _want._
It’s very gritty
Although we're share alot of DNA with chimps not every species reacts to viruses or infections the same, might be why the chimps weren't raging out of control
This film cost 5 million pounds to make, making it one of the most expensive British films to date and most of it was spent on the film being shot digitally which gives it it's unique visual style
It was nowhere near the most expensive British movie to that point. Charlotte Gray came out just a year earlier and cost £27 million, and most people never even heard of it. Notting Hill cost £30 in 1999 and Bridget Jones Diary around £18 million in 2001
28 days later was considered to have been made on only a moderate budget by British standards - especially considering there were action scenes and difficult shooting locations- but was financially very successful compared to this budget.
@@DJLtravelvids All those films you mention3d were American funded productions made by Working Title whereas 28bDays Later was made by The UK film council which was funded mostly by the national lottery. Charlotte Gray cost only £14million(nearly 20 million us dollars)
@@kevincooper1982 appreciate the extra info. I think we might simply have different definitions of what constitutes a "British" movie. Here's some extra info that may interest you:
In 2002 the House of Commons published a report on the state of the British Film industry called "The British Film Industry ". Its available to view online. There they specifically define what makes a film "British". One definition includes films that fall under Schedule 1 of the Films Act 1985. This includes the Harry Potter and James Bond films. This is a statutory definition, so difficult to argue with. I guess the budgets for these films eclipse my own examples as well as 28 days later.
@@DJLtravelvids Kudos to you for being diplomatic and acknowledging we have different definitions instead of the usual going around in circles arguing and ultimately losing the point of the argument as happens a lot on here 👍
As a general rule, I don't like zombie movies, but I did like this one.
It was tightly and smartly written, with fine dialogue and good, likeable characters. It also had the first "fast zombies" I'd ever seen.
Also, in most countries where some sort of Gaelic is the mother language (and Ireland is one of those...), the letter "C" always has the "hard" pronunciation, as if it were a "k."
So, Cillian Murphy's first name is pronounced as if it were spelled, "Killian." 🧐
Well, Halloween is over for 11 more months
For those of us with a spooky heart every day is Halloween 🎃
lol, oh...her father was so close! *PLEASE consider watching the movie THE MIST* PLEASE!
This movie has 2 endings, one from the sponsor and the original from the director at the end of the credits, I think marvel was inspired by here..!
The beginning of the sequel 28 weeks later makes me so uncomfortable
The '70s film NO BLADE OF GRASS deals with a worldwide vegetation disease where a group of Londoners head north towards a certain farm and turn into coldblooded murderers just to survive the journey. It's a harrowing tale.
You are absolutely gorgeous Dauffy. Thanks for another great reaction!
You really need to watch Songbird (2020) ... it will blow your mind (note it was released in 2020 !!!)
rick grimes waking up in the hospital
Are you gonna do 28 Weeks Later? I'd say it's worth it in terms of it in general, idk if you wanna do that for the channel but yeah its great
The original ending Jim died after being shot, its in the alternate ending now as audiences didn't like that ending
1. The reason the filming loked different was because of the use a video camera instead of film. It wasn't as low-res as VHS though, just early digital.
2. The main problem with zombie- and other 'fast' movie epidemics is that they should always be easy to control. If a virus acts too fast and deadly, it bascially eradicates itself.
The hidden ones, with longer incubation and thus higher rate of transmission are the dangerous ones ... but since last year everyone is a virology specialist, ya know ...
she said it wasn't just happening in some random village she said it was happening in the city right in front of them as in the in the city , you completely miss heard what she said
This was my pick!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I just found her channel but I'm wondering whether she's watched the 1990 The Stand? If not maybe 2022 Halloween?
still one of my favourite movies of all time, Danny Boyle & Alex Garland make the Dream Team
The car is a London Black Cab. If you come to.London that's mostly what you'll see
Love you gritings from Poland
Oh, I dunno, Duaffy's new look is actually quite working for me... =)
its plausible someone could awake from a coma on fluids after 28 days, yeah you would feel like absolute shit but the human body is an amazing thing and tbh it wouldn't make much of a film if he was recovering the whole time.
At the start when the animal rights people free the chimps they probably left most of the doors open when they came in for a quick escape making it easier for the infected to get out and anyone responding to an incident wouldn't have known that four rage induced humans and a chimp was about to attack them. Once they got out of that building it was game over
Time to watch the sequel 28 Weeks Later.... It will give you more perspective in this Zombie Pandemic world and may answer some of those unanswered questions you have
Considering her engineering background, if Duaffy ever snaps...she'd be Jigsaw
Your laugh is hilarious! :D it make me laugh too :D :D
The car is a london taxi cab.
This was a low-budget movie, shot on digital cameras, Canon XLR-1s, at a time before HD was really a thing. If it were film, they could simply rescan the negatives at a higher resolution. This is why classics look great in 4k. But since the source is a digital file at 480p, there is no way to truly upscale. This movie will look dated forever. :(
This movie started the whole running zombie genre. Dawn of the dead remake amplified it beyond 11 to the max
I'll never forgive it for that.
Otherwise, great movie.
You should watch rise of the planet of the apes , then dawn planet of the apes and then war of the planet of the apes … trust me you’ll like it !!
👉 28 Weeks Later
if only did you did make up for the dark knight like this :)
Been waiting for this.
When you relized why the soldiers took so long to show up...
As we are all well aware of now...research labs dealing with infectious diseases are not as secure as we would like to think.
The sequel answer some of your question at the end… just saying
loving the make up :) I loved this movie. The change from slow shambling zombies to the fast rage zombies used here was so intense.