So, popular theory about the infected from 28 days later is that they're still conscious and not mindless like most other "zombies" in movies. The fact that Mailer ignores Jim and specifically targets the other soldiers during the mansion scene and the infected soldiers remember each room and even use tactics is scary. The infected are just like us, only angry.
Mailer and Jim were never in the same room after he was unchained iirc. I agree with the idea that they're at least somewhat conscious though; the infected boy Jim kills actually speaks (angrily yelling "I hate you!" at him), and the first time Jim sees Mailer, it almost looks like he's trying to lure Jim into his reach.
@@Hank.. He does see Jim during his rampage. At one point, Mailer runs down a hallway and sees the shirtless Jim in a window, but instead of running at him, he runs down the hall towards another group of soliders. He sees him for maybe half a second, but doesn't react to him.
The film looks so gritty and realistic is because this was the first movie to be shot entirely with digital cameras which were new at that's time. I quite like it it adds immensely to the dark apocalyptic atmosphere of the movie
Almost entirely. The theatrical ending was shot on film. I think only Spike Lee had used Mini DV extensively, prior to this. He shot Bamboozled almost entirely on the Mini DV cams, with only certain segments shot on Super 16 film, to achieve a certain effect. Afterward, David Lynch shot Inland Empire on Mini DV, but it never really saw much wide commercial use, in the long run, as HD became more really available. It does have a very particular aesthetic, though.
Just so you know, nothing in this is 'fake'.Thats how England looks. In summer we have up to like 18 hours of daylight, So they filmed it at like 4am in summer for the empty street scenes. The windfarms, we've had them for years.
I’m surprised she didn’t ask if they were rescued by cannibals in the very end 😂 This is one of my all time favorites. (recommend watching ‘28 Weeks Later’ and ‘Sunshine’)
For a horror month ---- I would highly recommend "DOG SOLDIERS" a great movie with horror and fun. Not something that has been reacted to, but it is much better than 95% of horror offerings. Not a Hollywood budget movie ( Like this film ), but fantastic cinematography -- loved by most that see it.
They filmed the empty London shots at around 4-5am, They had shut down that area of London, tipped the bus over, done all the filming and put everything back to normal, bus back on its wheels etc, within a couple of hours. No photshop, editing or special effects used
it's not quite a horror film, but I think Danny Boyle's most underrated movie is Sunshine (2007), also starring Cillian Murphy. It does get pretty spooky in some parts, but it's mainly just a dang good sci-fi thriller with Boyle's trademark dark beauty in presentation. EDIT: oh fast zombies are def the scariest to me. not just lacking self-preservation, but also hauling ass to eat me alive? no thank you lol. and this movie's really high up in my fav zombie films. it's a great example of using budgetary constraints to a film's advantage. the early digital filming doesn't look as ugly as it could have because the filmmakers clearly knew how to shoot with its low image quality in mind. makes it feel like you're really seeing everything happen for real without it being "found footage." and yet we get awesome cinematic moments with Jim going full rambo/ninja on the soldiers lol. great movie
I think fast zombies that can be killed like anyone else are a good balance. Fast zombies that need to have the brain destroyed would just be too damn hard to kill.
I love Sunshine because of how real they got a lot of the science. They even got a theoretical astronomer to give the writers a reason why our sun might be dying earlier, no matter how unlikely that event.
Christopher Eccleston played the Major at the end, and you were right he was The Doctor in season 1 of the Doctor Who revival. He was also in Gone in 60 Seconds and played the main bad guy in Thor 2 Brendan Gleeson played Frank and he's probably most famous for his role as Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter but he's done lots of great films like In Bruges
I think you guys should also watch the sequel 28 Weeks Later for some reason nobody ever follows up with sequels I know you guys are pretty good at it. Another sequel has some pretty heart pounding moments
they filmed at 5am in the morning on a saturday or sunday here in the uk the clubs kick out at 2-3 am so it looks like a war zone by 4am till 7am when the street cleaners have cleaned up. they filmed the deserted streets cos it was the only time they could do it with out shutting down the entire city
The song that plays when he is first walking around empty London is a real banger - East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is worth a listen, as is their entire discography tbh. Really love your reactions - a little light in murky times.
My favorite "running zombie" film is also the first "running zombie" film. It's the 1985 cult classic, "Return of the Living Dead" which is terrifying and intentionally hilarious. You two would definitely enjoy it!
28 weeks later is actually really great! Danny Boyle had several really awesome movies before this, but 28 days later and Slumdog Millionaire really launched him internationally. I'd for sure watch Shallow Grave, his first feature.
one of my favourite films of all time. Garland and Boyle did an exceptional job, re-revolutionizing the genre. the character development, pacing, story, and underlying social message still holds up to this day.
@@ZenzeroCAM sadly for some reason they forced her to do a London accent when she’s from Liverpool , personally I think she should have kept her accent they could have said her mum was from Liverpool
No, they actually closed down sections of the streets in London. Usually just for a few minutes at a time in the very early morning before traffic started.
@@filyblunt2572 Actually, they don't. Day of the Dead - "It wants me! It wants food! But it has no stomach, can take no nourishment from what it ingests. It's acting on INSTINCT!" Day of the Dead even has Dr. Logan theorising that zombies will "survive" in a functional state longer due to a slower rate of decay. Walking Dead also plays around with this idea that the zombies, though rotting corpses, will function for many many years before they fall apart. But they do not starve. Not only do the 28 Days Later infected not starve, they don't eat their victims either. They might bite, to infect, or out of anger, but they don't ingest any amount of their victim like a zombie. They vomit the infection onto their victims. Also, they have a pulse. Theoretically they could be cured. Which was the whole point of the pre-title sequence. They were seeking to cure this infection known as "Rage." You can't really "cure" complete death of the body.
Love this movie. When he says "Hello?" at the start in the church and that one zombie sits up and looks at him I get chills every single time. Also just remembered watching this that Christopher Eccleson played Nicole Kidman's husband in The Others.
6:39 It´s real. They filmed it during the early hours of the morning, when there was as little traffic as possible. On reason why they managed to pull this off, was the use of Canon XL1 mini dv, a portable digital camera that was quick to set up. They used it also to give the film a gritty and rough feel. Only the last scene is filmed with 35mm.
i had never seen a "zombie" or "virus" movie before i saw this one... i didn't even know what "zombies" were back then, i'm glad that this happened to be my first movie of these genres, still the undisputed #1 on my list
"They're not zombies. They're infected!" If something like this happened and you were to say this to me, I'm slicing your Achilles and ringing the dinner bell.
I Love this movie, it creeped TF out of me. I remember watching this at home and I lived in the middle of no-where it was sooo dark out, I kept seeing "infected" coming at me lol
The deserted London was filmed in June so the sun it up around 4am but they had to stop the clubbers going home into scenes after a night out, but it was easier to divert traffic and normal peds around the filming locations that early.
Having myself been asked to hold back for 10 minutes to let some shooting finish before crossing south of the river, I can attest to this. Not sure if I was coming home from a club, or just finishing up late (at the Post-production place I worked at c.2001). London's always got filming going on somewhere; though still quite an achievement specifically here - and the scope / time of day make it memorable - it's pretty normal for productions to ask passers-by to hang on for a minute. Londoners are a lot more chill than they're given credit for. Sometimes. 🤣
27:53 "And _eventually,_ he'll tell me how long the infected take to _starve_ to death." Well, maybe. He should be in a _pit,_ though. A _covered_ pit. A _deep,_ covered pit that there's no hope of him getting _out_ of.
Danny Boyle was already a pretty big name director when he made 28 Days Later. His breakthrough film was Trainspotting a few years before. The reason this movie looks so "independent" is because he chose to shoot the film on video, to make it look like security footage or news footage, to give the film a more immediate, "realistic" feel.
I read that the celebration scene at the apartment was filmed in September 11th, 2001. If I recall, Brendan Gleason and Cillian Murphy said it was uneasy to film a celebratory scene in that day, but the production had to keep the schedule. I think the uneasiness can be felt on the scene, beyond the acting.
During the first covid lockdown in spring 2020, there were real shots of London that reminded me of the opening scenes to this film. Central London with no-one on the streets. Chilling.
I remember watching this in theatres and enjoying it to much I bought the DVD. They had an alernate ending done in animated storyboards. Where I think instead of the military overtaking an estate it was a bunker maybe? And Frank while still infected isnt killed but captured. In the end, Jim sacrifices himself by doing a blood transfusion with Frank, thus reuniting Hannah with her father. The group somewhat morbidily leaves a now infected Jim restained to a table in the bunker to die alone as they venture on. Pretty grim but would have been a killer ending, keeping touch with the dark reality of the rest of the film.
It just occurred to me just now that this is my favorite reaction channel. I realized it because I accidentally tapped and turned on notifications. And, while I turn off notifications for most channels to keep them at a minimum, including all reaction channels I subscribe to, when I accidentally turned them on for this one and was about to turn them off, I said to myself, "No, I don't mind these. In fact, I'm always happy to see a new video in my feed." So that's how I realized today that I have a favorite reaction channel. It's the only one I'll get notifications for.
the scene on london bridge was filmed at like 6am to reduce the amount of ppl that they have to block off. Personally i find the slow zombies much more scary. its like the classic slow walking serial killers
The DV video quality was intentional - Danny Boyle, The Director; has spoken about this in detail in the directors commentary. It would've been roughly the same cost to shoot in 16mm, use a 35mm lens, and then blow up the final film to 35mm/super35mm as a print for projectors in cinemas - but Danny wanted a certain look to the film, and I think that he is right in this choice: Having it shot and look the way it does makes it more real, more gritty, more 'sickly' and 'in your face', instead of having a 'perfect' 35mm image using photochemical film capture. The camera was the Canon XL-1, although a professional video camera at the time, most smartphones now have better video capability - so this was quite a choice to make. They could've used film - they did not, and there were solid reasons. I was surprised you did not mention the music "In the House, In a Heartbeat - John Murphy", utterly *haunting* track walking through London. You should go to London one day, and see some of the sights - I think you'd really like it.
For the scenes on the motorway, the production got permission to shoot on the M1 on a Sunday morning between 7.00am and 9.00am. The police gradually slowed traffic in both directions. Using 10 cameras, the filmmakers managed to capture a total of one minute of usable footage.
As a Londoner, this film hit me harder than other zombie films because a lot of the scenes were filmed in places I've been hundreds of times. Slow zombies scare me more due to the drawn out sense of impending doom in their shambling, inexorable hunt for prey.
Not a zombie film. And if it had been set in the US, the infected would have been put down quickly. It would have been over before the guy woke up and the whole movie would've been in flashback.
The film quality was intentional and I’m fairly certain there’s no CGI except for maybe like fire and smoke off the distance. It’s all practical. Including shutting down major streets in London.
I never realized how close their hands were to the wide angle lens. Caught me by surprise when they went all huge hands in the screen. I love the song in the supermarket scene. A.M. 180 by Grandaddy
Not a zombie movie, a viral infection movie. The infected aren't reanimated dead, in either the shambling corpse or voodoo zombie sense. Most people also seem to call the evil dead series zombie movies, but those are demonic possession.
About the time this came out, I got BIG into Zombie movies. I went on a tear trying to find all sorts of them. I just loved the genre and this one always stood out as being so much more visceral. Plus Brenden Gleason was fantastic and I still say, "MMMM IRRADIATED" whenever I see fresh produce in stores.
Great movie - this one is up there in the top five zombie movies for sure? And crazily, one of the other top five was made around the same time - being Shaun of the Dead. They both very much encapsulate an era in British indie horror movie making - although the sequel to this is a must-see, the correct third 'Noughties British Horror Flick' to watch is actually 'Dog Soldiers', which you absolutely have to at some point. But '28 Weeks Later' is the movie which everyone who has to deal with a novel viral outbreak - a pandemic, you might say - should absolutely watch, because it deals with the entire concept of carriers & quarantine, in a stark way that will make you think "Yeah, absolutely". It's the flip of this one.
This is my favorite zombie movie. It has such a raw look and feel. I love the way it was filmed. Fast zombies are absolutely terrifying. This is the best one in my opinion.
😆 It's Christopher _Eccleston_ (Major Henry West) who was once the title character on _Dr. Who._ I'm a recent fan and I was _astonished_ to see him in this movie.
this movie and the sequel is highly underrated imo. I'd absolutely love it if the same director came back and did a prequel to this movie called "28 days earlier" about the very start of zombie apocalypse and the 28 days of chaos leading up to eventually end with how this movie begins, you could easily make it interesting enough by showing how and who put the key for Jim to escape in the hospital when he woke up and you could get the woman back who plays saleen and show some of what she went through to give better understanding of why she is so standoffish.
My favorite horror film of all time! For the score alone it sets itself apart from all others. But that's in addition to the cinematography, acting performances, directing, writing, the different take on zombies, the grainy film look, social commentary, etc. which were all excellently done as well. If you want to catch some quick feels, listen to the soundtrack which is available on YT in its entirety. Also, most of the film was shot on location. Not green screen. The husband's quip about them stopping traffic in certain places a little at a time was exactly what they did to pull off those shots of empty streets and abandoned locations. And that actor did play the first Dr. Who when the series was relaunched. Thanks for the reaction!
The Doctor WHo guy is CHristopher Ecclestone, the chubby dad with the red hair and beard is Brandon Gleeson who is apart from being an amazing actor himself, the father of Domnhall Gleeson who played in the Star Wars Sequal Trilogy among other stuff.
Re: The video quality- “Danny Boyle made a conscious decision to shoot the entire film using DV-based Canon XL1 cameras due to the "harshness" of the video. He believed that such rough-edged quality would help give the film a sense of grittiness and real-world plausibility that would benefit the overall narrative.”
Boyle hired a number of cameras to film the deserted London scenes all at once from different positions as they only had 30mins where the streets were closed for them to film
fun fact - at 6:53 theres a person on the right sidewalk, almost center screen. this was completely unintended. someone just happened to slip through the wide area they had blocked off. this was the best take they had so they used it.
I'm from Manchester and i have to say, when they finaly arrived on the outskirts of the city and the whole place was a smouldering pile of rubble i thought, "how accurate, the old girl's never looked better". 😅
So, popular theory about the infected from 28 days later is that they're still conscious and not mindless like most other "zombies" in movies. The fact that Mailer ignores Jim and specifically targets the other soldiers during the mansion scene and the infected soldiers remember each room and even use tactics is scary. The infected are just like us, only angry.
Exactly 👏 I've been saying this for years. They aren't zombies, they are infected with a super virus.
Not angry, pure unbridled rage.
Mailer and Jim were never in the same room after he was unchained iirc. I agree with the idea that they're at least somewhat conscious though; the infected boy Jim kills actually speaks (angrily yelling "I hate you!" at him), and the first time Jim sees Mailer, it almost looks like he's trying to lure Jim into his reach.
@@Hank.. He does see Jim during his rampage. At one point, Mailer runs down a hallway and sees the shirtless Jim in a window, but instead of running at him, he runs down the hall towards another group of soliders. He sees him for maybe half a second, but doesn't react to him.
Yeap, characters in movie talk about it...its infection of RAGE
The film looks so gritty and realistic is because this was the first movie to be shot entirely with digital cameras which were new at that's time. I quite like it it adds immensely to the dark apocalyptic atmosphere of the movie
Almost entirely. The theatrical ending was shot on film. I think only Spike Lee had used Mini DV extensively, prior to this. He shot Bamboozled almost entirely on the Mini DV cams, with only certain segments shot on Super 16 film, to achieve a certain effect. Afterward, David Lynch shot Inland Empire on Mini DV, but it never really saw much wide commercial use, in the long run, as HD became more really available. It does have a very particular aesthetic, though.
Shot with a Cannon XL... Pretty decent camera.
It feels more like a movie than 4k movies imo
When the movie was first released on blu-ray it looked like crap as a result.
Just so you know, nothing in this is 'fake'.Thats how England looks.
In summer we have up to like 18 hours of daylight, So they filmed it at like 4am in summer for the empty street scenes.
The windfarms, we've had them for years.
except for the obviously way too big/close windmills
Selina's motivation is fear. It's as simple as that. What keeps her alive now, in this moment. The rest of the day. That's all that matters.
Yup, she pretty much makes it clear she doesn't believe in "the future" - just surviving "the now."
She was 100% right to not want to go find the soldiers.
Also the desire to survive is a default condition of humanity
But as humans we need something more
I’m surprised she didn’t ask if they were rescued by cannibals in the very end 😂
This is one of my all time favorites. (recommend watching ‘28 Weeks Later’ and ‘Sunshine’)
They both suck..
The jet pilot spoke Finnish so probably from Finland, we don’t have a lot of cannibals here 😅
@@09Raffytaffy The jet was the rescue, and I’m baffled by your response. Have a good one 😅
Trainspotting
28 weeks later is trash
" *THAT* little car is offroading??"
It's a London cab. It's seen worse.
Boyle and Murphy team up again on Sunshine. A personal favorite of mine.
Murphy and Boyle, the Robocop/Brooklyn Nine-Nine crossover buddy cop movie the world needs right now.
@@Lusciouslysorry Ooooo!!!!
Suuuuch a great movie ❤
Sunshine rocks!
Agree, sunshine is a great anti/religion/superstition movie!
The scene with the parents (don't wake up) gets me every time.
The church scene is still something that creeps me out to this day. The stare those 2 infected give.
For a horror month ---- I would highly recommend "DOG SOLDIERS" a great movie with horror and fun. Not something that has been reacted to, but it is much better than 95% of horror offerings. Not a Hollywood budget movie ( Like this film ), but fantastic cinematography -- loved by most that see it.
Move your a*se soldier
Can you lick your own b*lls yet 😆
I think the corporal said that 🤔
love that movie!
Oh yeah, saw that at a cinema in Dundee, Scotland, and was blown away. Front row, laughing, jumping, shouting...
100% this. Love that movie. I was stationed in the UK when it came out, and saw it in the cinema (theater) at Grafton Centre in Cambridge.
They filmed the empty London shots at around 4-5am,
They had shut down that area of London, tipped the bus over, done all the filming and put everything back to normal, bus back on its wheels etc, within a couple of hours.
No photshop, editing or special effects used
it's not quite a horror film, but I think Danny Boyle's most underrated movie is Sunshine (2007), also starring Cillian Murphy. It does get pretty spooky in some parts, but it's mainly just a dang good sci-fi thriller with Boyle's trademark dark beauty in presentation.
EDIT: oh fast zombies are def the scariest to me. not just lacking self-preservation, but also hauling ass to eat me alive? no thank you lol. and this movie's really high up in my fav zombie films. it's a great example of using budgetary constraints to a film's advantage. the early digital filming doesn't look as ugly as it could have because the filmmakers clearly knew how to shoot with its low image quality in mind. makes it feel like you're really seeing everything happen for real without it being "found footage." and yet we get awesome cinematic moments with Jim going full rambo/ninja on the soldiers lol. great movie
Sunshine would have been a 5 star film if it was not for the final act. Still a great film though.
Sunshine is very good indeed
I think fast zombies that can be killed like anyone else are a good balance. Fast zombies that need to have the brain destroyed would just be too damn hard to kill.
I love Sunshine because of how real they got a lot of the science. They even got a theoretical astronomer to give the writers a reason why our sun might be dying earlier, no matter how unlikely that event.
Ever seen Shallow Grave bro? Ewan McGregor and Chris Eccleston it's Boyle's first picture and wicked dark.
Yelling Hello over and over again as a homege to Day of the Dead is awesome.
Not many people notice that! I don't know for certain but I was pretty sure it's the same voice added in. Definitely similar
Christopher Eccleston played the Major at the end, and you were right he was The Doctor in season 1 of the Doctor Who revival. He was also in Gone in 60 Seconds and played the main bad guy in Thor 2
Brendan Gleeson played Frank and he's probably most famous for his role as Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter but he's done lots of great films like In Bruges
Gleason also was a big part in Gangs of New York.
Killian Murphy also plays the lead in 'The Peaky Blinders', a show you guys should definitely watch!
Cillian*
Peaky is shite, Killian great!
I think you guys should also watch the sequel 28 Weeks Later for some reason nobody ever follows up with sequels I know you guys are pretty good at it. Another sequel has some pretty heart pounding moments
Or not, because it’s average.
Hawkeyes best appearance
@@VictorLugosi well... thats like....your opinion man
Worth it for that opening farm sequence alone, good lord is that scene intense
@@GeneralDread yeah it gets my heart racing every time
The teenagers dad is a London cabbie, she knows her way around a spider wrench! Great choice to kick of October movie season
Brendan Gleason played the Father. He was in a lot of great films like Braveheart, Gangs of New York, and the later Harry Potter movies.
Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise is another great one.
Brendan Gleason and Cillian Murphy are in another film together called “Perrier's Bounty“ a good dark comedy/thriller
In Bruges
@@Wrencher_86 Yessss!!!! I would f-ing love for them to start watching Martin McDonagh’s brilliantly twisted movies!
@@Wrencher_86 Love that movie.
People have inadvertently gotten this film confused with "28 Days", a drama/comedy starring Sandra Bullock.
they filmed at 5am in the morning on a saturday or sunday here in the uk the clubs kick out at 2-3 am so it looks like a war zone by 4am till 7am when the street cleaners have cleaned up. they filmed the deserted streets cos it was the only time they could do it with out shutting down the entire city
The song that plays when he is first walking around empty London is a real banger - East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is worth a listen, as is their entire discography tbh. Really love your reactions - a little light in murky times.
A man of taste I see
Ah look at this distinguished gentleman...yes distinguished indeed 🧐
Not many vocal Godspeed fans around these days, but it's a pleasure to see it ❤
@@reservoirdude92 they're hard to bring up fluidly in conversation... Not hard but definitely not as casually simple as it could be
@@PickleBread355 Them: what kind of music is it?
Me: uhhh like instrumental rock, but in a feel bad kind of way.
My favorite "running zombie" film is also the first "running zombie" film. It's the 1985 cult classic, "Return of the Living Dead" which is terrifying and intentionally hilarious. You two would definitely enjoy it!
Hell yeah Linnea Quigley on a tombstone
'Hello dispatch, send more paramedics'
28 weeks later is actually really great! Danny Boyle had several really awesome movies before this, but 28 days later and Slumdog Millionaire really launched him internationally. I'd for sure watch Shallow Grave, his first feature.
The sardonic witt of an young Ewan McGreggor, woefully underated film that.
No green screens , many parts of London are essentially empty until the morning rush hour so filming was done before the public were about
one of my favourite films of all time. Garland and Boyle did an exceptional job, re-revolutionizing the genre. the character development, pacing, story, and underlying social message still holds up to this day.
It's such a fantastic movie!, the cinematography, the script, the acting & the score!! sooo good
The Sequel is ok as well
The daughter Hannah is pretty awful though
@@ZenzeroCAM sadly for some reason they forced her to do a London accent when she’s from Liverpool , personally I think she should have kept her accent they could have said her mum was from Liverpool
@@tedbaker3846 yeah I enjoy the sequel too but there’s something about the original that just hits differently
Sequel is trash, absolute garbage, apart from the 1st few minutes which are some of the best zombie action going.
No, they actually closed down sections of the streets in London. Usually just for a few minutes at a time in the very early morning before traffic started.
28 Days Later and 28 Weeks later are so fantastic.
28 Weeks Later probably has the best opening for a zombie/infected movie.
@@NecramoniumVideo 28 weeks later as a whole wasnt that good imo, but yeah the opening was fantastic.
@@davidokinsky114 Compared to other zombie movies 28 weeks later is an amazing movie
Love this movie. Zombies are usually slower but these are actually 'infected' and run like regular people so they're scary af.
Yeah. These aren't zombies. Zombies don't starve to death.
@@OpenMawProductions actually they do
@@filyblunt2572 voodoo zombies maybe. A rotting corpse can't starve to death, but then it also can't move either...
They're rage virus monsters.
@@filyblunt2572 Actually, they don't.
Day of the Dead - "It wants me! It wants food! But it has no stomach, can take no nourishment from what it ingests. It's acting on INSTINCT!"
Day of the Dead even has Dr. Logan theorising that zombies will "survive" in a functional state longer due to a slower rate of decay.
Walking Dead also plays around with this idea that the zombies, though rotting corpses, will function for many many years before they fall apart.
But they do not starve.
Not only do the 28 Days Later infected not starve, they don't eat their victims either. They might bite, to infect, or out of anger, but they don't ingest any amount of their victim like a zombie. They vomit the infection onto their victims. Also, they have a pulse. Theoretically they could be cured. Which was the whole point of the pre-title sequence. They were seeking to cure this infection known as "Rage."
You can't really "cure" complete death of the body.
I believe this director did the IMO underrated Sunshine - worth checking out too! (Cillian Murphy is in it too)
He's had quite a career since - he was behind the opening ceremony for the London Olympics in 2012...
Anyone else amazed at just how untouched that grocery store was? Any food they wanted it was there for them.
Love this movie. When he says "Hello?" at the start in the church and that one zombie sits up and looks at him I get chills every single time. Also just remembered watching this that Christopher Eccleson played Nicole Kidman's husband in The Others.
6:20 Live. They shot this live, in London. Sequestered the area.
This film made The Walking Dead, and influenced many more films and series.
Please watch the 2nd one too! The first 5 minutes of 28 Weeks Later is the most intense opening of any film ever!
The first 5 minutes of 28 weeks is the best part of either of the two films. But the rest of weeks falls flat in comparison imo
That’s the only part Danny Boyle directed, legendary opening too but sadly the rest of that movie is not nearly as good as the opening scene or 28days
true omg
It was my first movie in the franchise and my first fast zombie movie. I was petrified, mumbling "I have no idea" again and again.
The video quality is phenomenal for a film that was shot in standard def.
The music is fantastic too, it’s often used in a lot of tense scenes in loads of things.
The score definitely stands out
Honestly 28 weeks later is an underrated sequel if still more "Hollywood" then the first
😂😂What is with Mrs. thinking everyone's eating each other in this film.. 😂😂
In an apocalypse setting, if i'm alive, catch me at any grocery store or mall. I'll be sitting in the stairwell with warm beer and terrible magazines.
0:24 - A missed opportunity for the Mrs.' Texas Chainsaw dance.
6:39 It´s real. They filmed it during the early hours of the morning, when there was as little traffic as possible. On reason why they managed to pull this off, was the use of Canon XL1 mini dv, a portable digital camera that was quick to set up. They used it also to give the film a gritty and rough feel. Only the last scene is filmed with 35mm.
This movie is why I started keeping a battery powered impact wrench in my trunk
Always love the classic monster movie trope of "the real monster is mankind itself". Its kind of how TWD slowly evolved.
Or made it up as they went progressively getting shitter and shitter
i had never seen a "zombie" or "virus" movie before i saw this one... i didn't even know what "zombies" were back then,
i'm glad that this happened to be my first movie of these genres, still the undisputed #1 on my list
"They're not zombies. They're infected!"
If something like this happened and you were to say this to me, I'm slicing your Achilles and ringing the dinner bell.
I Love this movie, it creeped TF out of me. I remember watching this at home and I lived in the middle of no-where it was sooo dark out, I kept seeing "infected" coming at me lol
The sweet scenes were filmed in summer at 5am when the sun came up and streets could be reliably empty for a short while.
The song in a house, in a heartbeat, from this film, is one of my favorite score songs from this film and from most horror film from the last 20 years
21:04 "We can provide you with all the remuneration you need for this _later."_
The deserted London was filmed in June so the sun it up around 4am but they had to stop the clubbers going home into scenes after a night out, but it was easier to divert traffic and normal peds around the filming locations that early.
Having myself been asked to hold back for 10 minutes to let some shooting finish before crossing south of the river, I can attest to this.
Not sure if I was coming home from a club, or just finishing up late (at the Post-production place I worked at c.2001). London's always got filming going on somewhere; though still quite an achievement specifically here - and the scope / time of day make it memorable - it's pretty normal for productions to ask passers-by to hang on for a minute. Londoners are a lot more chill than they're given credit for.
Sometimes. 🤣
27:53 "And _eventually,_ he'll tell me how long the infected take to _starve_ to death."
Well, maybe. He should be in a _pit,_ though. A _covered_ pit. A _deep,_ covered pit that there's no hope of him getting _out_ of.
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the scientist in the beginning cracks me up every time.
'the chimps are infected... with rage' the delivery is perfect
Danny Boyle was already a pretty big name director when he made 28 Days Later. His breakthrough film was Trainspotting a few years before. The reason this movie looks so "independent" is because he chose to shoot the film on video, to make it look like security footage or news footage, to give the film a more immediate, "realistic" feel.
I never even noticed the infected kid shout "I hate you" before now, watched this tons of times too
I read that the celebration scene at the apartment was filmed in September 11th, 2001. If I recall, Brendan Gleason and Cillian Murphy said it was uneasy to film a celebratory scene in that day, but the production had to keep the schedule. I think the uneasiness can be felt on the scene, beyond the acting.
During the first covid lockdown in spring 2020, there were real shots of London that reminded me of the opening scenes to this film. Central London with no-one on the streets. Chilling.
Plymouth was exactly the same
I was walking in the middle of the roads
I remember watching this in theatres and enjoying it to much I bought the DVD. They had an alernate ending done in animated storyboards. Where I think instead of the military overtaking an estate it was a bunker maybe? And Frank while still infected isnt killed but captured. In the end, Jim sacrifices himself by doing a blood transfusion with Frank, thus reuniting Hannah with her father. The group somewhat morbidily leaves a now infected Jim restained to a table in the bunker to die alone as they venture on. Pretty grim but would have been a killer ending, keeping touch with the dark reality of the rest of the film.
To me, this movie is easily top 5 Zombie movies ever. Keeping on the Zombie train, I'd love to see your reaction to Train to Busan. Really incredible.
For a zombie flick it sure did make me cry a lot.
The dad scene gets me the most
You should check out Train to Busan 🤣
Nobody would be eating anybody if they had some delicious ARCANA CREAMERY cookies!
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the scene on london bridge was filmed at like 6am to reduce the amount of ppl that they have to block off. Personally i find the slow zombies much more scary. its like the classic slow walking serial killers
The most terrifying zombies for me are the fast running zombies they run like their running track lol
"Dead things can't run." George A Romero
The DV video quality was intentional - Danny Boyle, The Director; has spoken about this in detail in the directors commentary.
It would've been roughly the same cost to shoot in 16mm, use a 35mm lens, and then blow up the final film to 35mm/super35mm as a print for projectors in cinemas - but Danny wanted a certain look to the film, and I think that he is right in this choice:
Having it shot and look the way it does makes it more real, more gritty, more 'sickly' and 'in your face', instead of having a 'perfect' 35mm image using photochemical film capture.
The camera was the Canon XL-1, although a professional video camera at the time, most smartphones now have better video capability - so this was quite a choice to make.
They could've used film - they did not, and there were solid reasons.
I was surprised you did not mention the music "In the House, In a Heartbeat - John Murphy", utterly *haunting* track walking through London.
You should go to London one day, and see some of the sights - I think you'd really like it.
For the scenes on the motorway, the production got permission to shoot on the M1 on a Sunday morning between 7.00am and 9.00am. The police gradually slowed traffic in both directions. Using 10 cameras, the filmmakers managed to capture a total of one minute of usable footage.
Christopher Eccleston was indeed the Doctor.
The spinning windmills were why there was electricity in the store.
This is one of my favorites. Thanks for doing it!
Oooh man, five minutes into this I remembered about the dad. Jeez....
Damn she must really wanna see someone eat someone. “They gonna eat him?” Lmao
As a Londoner, this film hit me harder than other zombie films because a lot of the scenes were filmed in places I've been hundreds of times. Slow zombies scare me more due to the drawn out sense of impending doom in their shambling, inexorable hunt for prey.
People from London smell..
Big Gay Lion? Is that you?
I understand! it's always more investing when it's home based.
@@VictorLugosi
Not a zombie film.
And if it had been set in the US, the infected would have been put down quickly. It would have been over before the guy woke up and the whole movie would've been in flashback.
Thomas Shelby, the Doctor, Mad-Eye Moody and Miss Moneypenny all in one film. I love it!
Mr Movies better make sure the cupboards are stocked otherwise Mrs Movies may be having him for dinner!
It was surreal watching footage of London during pandemic lockdown, it was eerily reminiscent of the first few minutes of this film 🤯
the beginning in itself is scary enough but you add zombies on top of that and its just terrifying.
The film quality was intentional and I’m fairly certain there’s no CGI except for maybe like fire and smoke off the distance. It’s all practical. Including shutting down major streets in London.
Mrs. Movies would be scooping out someone's brains like you would a jack-o'-lantern even if she wasn't infected 🤣🧟
I never realized how close their hands were to the wide angle lens. Caught me by surprise when they went all huge hands in the screen.
I love the song in the supermarket scene. A.M. 180 by Grandaddy
love the optimistic ending, just like the road
Not a zombie movie, a viral infection movie. The infected aren't reanimated dead, in either the shambling corpse or voodoo zombie sense.
Most people also seem to call the evil dead series zombie movies, but those are demonic possession.
About the time this came out, I got BIG into Zombie movies. I went on a tear trying to find all sorts of them. I just loved the genre and this one always stood out as being so much more visceral. Plus Brenden Gleason was fantastic and I still say, "MMMM IRRADIATED" whenever I see fresh produce in stores.
Great movie - this one is up there in the top five zombie movies for sure? And crazily, one of the other top five was made around the same time - being Shaun of the Dead. They both very much encapsulate an era in British indie horror movie making - although the sequel to this is a must-see, the correct third 'Noughties British Horror Flick' to watch is actually 'Dog Soldiers', which you absolutely have to at some point.
But '28 Weeks Later' is the movie which everyone who has to deal with a novel viral outbreak - a pandemic, you might say - should absolutely watch, because it deals with the entire concept of carriers & quarantine, in a stark way that will make you think "Yeah, absolutely". It's the flip of this one.
Shaun of the Dead is certainly a great zombie movie!! It's funny, yet so well done.
What a good way to end my day! I’ve been wanting for this to drop! 😊
All the empty streets were shot at 4am in midsummer. England is pretty far north so it gets light early in summer.
This is my favorite zombie movie. It has such a raw look and feel. I love the way it was filmed. Fast zombies are absolutely terrifying. This is the best one in my opinion.
It's not a zombie movie.
@@DJonScott Yes it is.
😆 It's Christopher _Eccleston_ (Major Henry West) who was once the title character on _Dr. Who._ I'm a recent fan and I was _astonished_ to see him in this movie.
this movie and the sequel is highly underrated imo. I'd absolutely love it if the same director came back and did a prequel to this movie called "28 days earlier" about the very start of zombie apocalypse and the 28 days of chaos leading up to eventually end with how this movie begins, you could easily make it interesting enough by showing how and who put the key for Jim to escape in the hospital when he woke up and you could get the woman back who plays saleen and show some of what she went through to give better understanding of why she is so standoffish.
I've never pivoted so fast between being sad at 26:13 and laughing out loud at 26:30. Congrats YM&TM you have the new record; 17 bloody seconds.
My favorite horror film of all time! For the score alone it sets itself apart from all others.
But that's in addition to the cinematography, acting performances, directing, writing, the different take on zombies, the grainy film look, social commentary, etc. which were all excellently done as well.
If you want to catch some quick feels, listen to the soundtrack which is available on YT in its entirety.
Also, most of the film was shot on location. Not green screen. The husband's quip about them stopping traffic in certain places a little at a time was exactly what they did to pull off those shots of empty streets and abandoned locations.
And that actor did play the first Dr. Who when the series was relaunched.
Thanks for the reaction!
The way Mrs. Movie said “Welcome back to you me and the pee pee.” 😂
The Doctor WHo guy is CHristopher Ecclestone, the chubby dad with the red hair and beard is Brandon Gleeson who is apart from being an amazing actor himself, the father of Domnhall Gleeson who played in the Star Wars Sequal Trilogy among other stuff.
Re: The video quality-
“Danny Boyle made a conscious decision to shoot the entire film using DV-based Canon XL1 cameras due to the "harshness" of the video. He believed that such rough-edged quality would help give the film a sense of grittiness and real-world plausibility that would benefit the overall narrative.”
Tommy Shelby would’ve had this wrapped up long ago
"Carriers" has a similar vibe and really good too. No zombies though, just a pandemic.
Boyle hired a number of cameras to film the deserted London scenes all at once from different positions as they only had 30mins where the streets were closed for them to film
fun fact - at 6:53 theres a person on the right sidewalk, almost center screen. this was completely unintended. someone just happened to slip through the wide area they had blocked off. this was the best take they had so they used it.
another great scary movie with Cillian Murphy called Red Eye next! :)
Thank you. I have been telling people for years that 28 is an infection movie like The Crazies. I am glad you got it first time. New sub
I'm from Manchester and i have to say, when they finaly arrived on the outskirts of the city and the whole place was a smouldering pile of rubble i thought, "how accurate, the old girl's never looked better". 😅