At the start of 28 weeks later the main character is chased down a field after they are discovered by the infected in a farm house. Yes later on a helicopter chops up the infected in a field
There is no blur filter over Britain. It's just that all of Britain is blurry. If you live in it, you don't notice it. But, in film, it becomes apparent.
It's true. Like how I remember my dad telling me that everything was black and white in Britain until around the late 50's and mid 60's, and then the spectrum shifted and the land and its people gradually shifted to being in colour, only some parts slower than others.
The little cottage at the end is the house I grew up in. I was 10 when they filmed it. It was so exciting having a whole film crew rolling into our sleepy valley 😂
Jim's secret zombie survival ability was being a bike courier. Years of honing his reflexes and eye-hand coordination, the strategic aspect of having to plan and execute routes with a dozen variables flying at you. I really liked how he was portrayed so weak after being in a coma. But after some solid sleep, some moist raisins and a good pump of adrenaline in the face rape and death, he was able to activate his inner ninja.
Athletes were cast as the Infected because of how important physicality is to them. Danny Boyle felt that since athletes can do things other people can't, they would be interesting when translated into the movements of the Infected.
@@Enigmatic.. no, it wasnt, it was a set dressed london shot during the summer at 4am. If its set dressed, it isnt just london, is it now. or do you think theres war type lost persons poster boards in London lmfao?
One of the best screen adaptations of the John Wyndham novel _The Day of the Triffids_ (seriously, other than changing the monsters to zombies and the circumstances on how society collapsed, the film follows the novel's plot beats very closely). There was also a very loosely adapted movie version in 1962, and two miniseries in 1981 and 2009 which were a lot closer to the book, the latter of which also had Eddie Izzard playing Torrence (the same villain character that Chris Eccleston played in this movie).
The mom and dad in bed together is an image that has stuck with me for years since first seeing this film. I don't tend to be traumatized by horror films and such, but that one shot got me, and stuck.
Actually, you saw the alternate ending. The ending I saw in the theater was different. After the main character gets shot, the two women tried to revive him in a hospital type building but fail. The last shot featured the two women exiting the room, with the back to the viewer, in a long shot.
Many interesting back stories about the making of this film. Directed by Danny Boyle, often shot in London in the early hours, and a lot of the principal photography was done on multiple Canon XL1 cameras, a prosumer level camera at the time. Quite an innovative approach.
@@DangerMouse-n8l true. I'm not too technically aware, but I know they had 3 x sensors, and clearly the quality was more than enough for film making as Danny Boyle proved.
@@SeanHendy yeah i wasnt saying they were too weak, I was just saying how early a ''prosumer'' cam they were , and thats why the movie looks like it does nowadays on higher res screens, the source material wasnt Hd so its an upscale , which never looks good tbh. Watch it on a good crt and it looks way better.
@@DangerMouse-n8l here's the contradiction in the modern world. Yes, there is an expectation of HD, 4K, Ultra HD and all the rest, and YT videos often are these days, BUT, what is called 'film rate', is a film speed of just 24 frames per second. It's what gives a distinctive blur when objects move across the screen. Ironic that the iphone 16 pro is capable of 4k at 60 frames per second.
Absolutely brilliant movie! One of my all-time favorite movies. This started the whole zombie revival and led to the Dawn of the Dead remake and The Walking Dead. Without this movie the whole modern zombie craze would not have happened.
28 Weeks Later has them running down a field at the beginning of the movie. Its a good film with some bigger stars, but you can tell Hollywood put $£ into production. 28 Years Later is now in development which I can't wait for. Alternative ending to this film showed them trying to heal Jim, but he dies and the two girls leave (no cottage ending).
There are fast zombies, and there are slow zombies. Two different but valid concepts, that usually don't get mixed during one movie. I like the slow ones better, too.
Fast ones are deadly but slow ones are dangerous in their own way. They will eventually catch up to you and complacency kills you. Much like the immortal snail thing lol
I was always annoyed that Selina considered Frank and Hannah to be a liability that would slow her down, considering our first introduction to Frank is Selina and Jim running away and Frank demolishing the infected single-handed. Not only that, but "slowed down" on the way to.... where? Selina didn't have a plan; finding the soldiers in hopes of salvation was Frank's idea. Selina's "plan" was just wandering around aimlessly waiting to get outnumbered and killed.
RE: Picking Fast Zombie Bones; A: You're quite correct, "28 Days Later" is one of the key examples of how to subvert audience expectations because the Zombies in this case are not the run of the mill Undead which are usually found in a zombie movie, and therefore there's hardly any supernatural overtones or religious concerns. The religious imagery is a key element in a George A. Romero style of zombie film. For something which takes this idea back into the actual Undead but still Fast Zombies, see also the British miniseries "Dead Set" which came out in the late 2000s and was produced by Charlie Brooker for ITV. It is a Satirical Horror series, I shouldn't say anything else about it...
They used a lower quality digital camcorder for the shooting, which is why it has a sort of low res look. The newest in the series is being shot with an iPhone. Now you need to watch the film 'Rec'!
That "blur filter" or "grainy filter" of British movies could just be that there was a series of them coming out at that time, which was also a time of this aesthetic in movies, along with the shaky cam trend.
@kingspanky2794 You ,Me and the TV also known as You Me and the Movies are a reactor couple who've reacted to the Stand it's a great series i agree . Enjoy the Halloween season 🎃🤘
i agree that the slow zombies are better, and scarier than the silly fast ones. but i really liked this film anyway. and, in this case, the sequel, "28 weeks later," is even better. the opening sequence to the sequel is one of the most INTENSE scenes in movie history. like the hair and thanks for the video.
"Why do british movies always have that grainy filter?" its because of using different film formats, either DV or 16mm etc. (This film is DV, Dog Soldiers is 16mm) . Holywood uses 35mm. Using 35mm requires giant cameras on rails. So British directors often use more lightweight cameras enabling them to get a wider range of shots with far lesss hassle, and far less cost. Our stuff didnt have the budgets , or started out as low budget indie, then blew up, like this movie. DV wasnt even HD at this time. It wasnt until the 2nd geenration of the cameras used in this, did they get Hd resolution. Hence why it doesnt look good on bluray, its just an upscale from 576i resolution
It always seems so counter intuitive that any zombie would be fast. I find it annoying that I would be faster, more athletic and have better stamina after I was dead and cold and becoming fly food, than I was when I was alive.
The zombie matrix is stupid vs smart and slow vs fast. If your zombies are fast and smart enough to work together, might as well give up. This is my favourite zombie movie. Can't believe they are finally making 28 Months Later!
The opening sequence of The Day of the Triffids written by John Wyndham inspired Alex Garland (the screenwriter) to write the screenplay. It's a brilliant book I can highly recommend it.
Nah they are zombies. A zombie is a person who loses control of their minds and body. These infected are not UNDEAD, which most people think of when they think of zombies, but the infected are still very much zombies.
And thus began the great debate to see if these were zombies or just "infected" lol. This is definitely one of the best zombie movies and in my eyes defines the zombie genre in general only after "Night of the Living Dead." Glad to see you enjoyed the movie, it only took me until fairly recently to actually watch this whole movie because this terrified me so much. The 2nd one isn't as great but you should definitely see it. If you liked this one you should definitely check out "Train to Busan" and "Kingdom"
That shot with the infected running down the hill is within 5 minutes of the opening of the sequel. It has a very different feel from the first, but still a very enjoyable movie. Would make a great reaction, wink wink, nudge nudge 😂
This is my favorite zombie movie. And I think for sure zombies would sprint, they only want one thing: to eat/kill/spread the infection. Meaning it’s going to run as hard and fast as it can because it can’t think, it won’t conserve stamina or track you. If it hears you or sees you, it’s running. Kind of like in World War Z, it’s more “real” that way. I never liked the whole “dead rising from the grave” trope about zombies, but infection, virus or fungus is much more believable like rabies. So yeah, running is absolutely fair.
You should defos watch 28 Weeks Later (the one with the field scene) next! It’s amazing how they manage to maintain the same doom-laden tone whilst making it more action-y. I love them both equally.
I agree that undead zomnies shouldn't be very fast after a few days of reanimating. Reasons include rigomortis [muscles stiffening], bloating due to gaseous buildup caused by decomposition, and becauss an undead walking about would have bodily fluids being drawn to the feet and lower legs. BUT a recently dead person that reanimates definitely could run as the muscles are in good condition, no bloating and fluids pooling have started yet. Plus they don't have to breathe or worry about a heart attack. If they want to run the fresh undead, most certainly can.
I have a friend who hates walking Zombie films. He thinks that they can't be scary because anyone can simply outrun them. Threat averted. But the TWD series has been very clever and inventive in making walking Zombies a serious threat, especially when there are hordes of them, as it was in the first episode of the TWD. But of course this film has nothing to do with Zombies. Rage "Infected" are still living human beings and therefore can run. But to watch a good running Zombie TV series, check out the 8 episode "Black Summer" series.
Since we are on the topic of rage, there's a thriller movie called "Unhinged" (2020) where a pickup truck driver (Russell Crowe) has some psychotic road rage issues against one female motorist. Its basically an updated version of "Duel" which was Steven Spielberg's 1971 debut film.
I think people always vastly overestimate their chances in a slow moving Romero zombie apocalypse. Most people, despite their lofty declarations from air conditioned rooms right now, can't magically turn on the Rambo machine and start swinging axes intoskulls. Mentally or physically. Some of you won't be able to slay your undead relatives let alone strangers without hesitating. Hesitation is what gets most of you in the first hours. Also most of y'all just aren't built like lumberjacks so you'll tire out by the 3rd zombie at best with blunt objects. Also I lump myself in this too. I wouldn't fair well either. I love zombie films but even knowing the rules doesn't turn you into Bill from Left 4 Dead. Still its always funny hearing someone talk like life would be like Shaun of the Dead in a full blown apocalypse. Don't think so.
You're right, but I posit in reality you wouldn't find yourself in the situations you see on screen. In movies it's either a few people vs. a horde or huge crowds trampling people in a stampede towards a single location. And those kinds of things do happen in reality, but they are the exception rather than the norm. Social cooperation in medium-to-largish groups is human beings' defining trait. There are about 20 people in my building. In less than an hour, we could barricade ground-floor doors and windows and fill containers with weeks' worth of drinking water. Weeks to plan, find other survivor groups, wait out the threat, or whatever. In any case, much better chances than jumping right to crushing skulls. History is full of small groups surviving truly dire situations. It's just that when someone sits down to write a zombie story, that's not the kind of tale they want to tell.
@@noodle_fc Stories. Any story is always built on conflict. So a zombie story of cooperation wouldn't sell as well. True. I am saying that in a crisis scenario. As in no food, water, electricity, gas, etc there is a possibility for people, like your neighbors, to switch up and not be so cooperative as they are when a blackout happens. Because this isn't a blackout or the aftermath of a hurricane. Also we are just going with this hypothetical that everyone living in your building all independently understand and abide by basic zombie rules (isolate or "deal with" bit people, including reanimated roommates locked away), which I doubt. Yes, we can all survive the aftermath of all of tough stuff together but we all didn't grow up on Romero films and I guarantee one neighbor will hide a zombie (or personal zombie bite) either out of extreme ignorance/fear/denial or out of some spiritual belief and essentially doom the building I harp on this detail to say that individual people will deal with stuff they don't understand very differently. Everyone is civil, knows exactly what to do and is on the same page when the power/water goes out because there is an assumption that the power/water will eventually come back on. A zombie plague is newer ground. Mistakes can be made. And it only takes a single mistake, like say when Mr. Williamson in 2R fails to tell anyone that he locked old zombie Fran in his pantry, to end the whole block. We as a collective species will simply act too slow to stop a full blown zombie outbreak. And all this to bring it back around to my central point which is nobody is prepared for this specific kind of apocalypse the way that they think they are. Respectfully ya'll sound a bit like John Hammond from Jurassic Park the way you think you'll have any control over a situation thats built upon pure chaos. Zombies don't shuffle in single file lines after all.
@@habadasheryjones All I'm saying is it's objectively unlikely that survival will depend on an individual's ability to wield a club, and that humans in groups have a pretty good track record for survival. Seems you disagree with the second part. That's fair enough, but for my money, cooperation has seen people through too much shit too many times to be discounted as plain naivete. Every new situation is pure chaos until someone decides to organize.
Well, I never hear anyone admit they'd be gone in like the first wave of a situation like this. It's always, "I'd do this to survive." I'd be more worried about my fellow man vs a zombie. Cooperation is great but I don't have much faith alot of us could manage to still help eachother in a situation like this.
2 zombie films you need to watch is "The Dead" (set in Africa) and "The Dead 2:India" by the Ford Brothers, both brilliant, well made and the difference in how the zombie apocalypse affects both continents is great
@@wyldhowl2821 Except they were never corpses. They are not under the control of voodoo witchdoctors. They are simply infected with a blood born virus.
Zombies running through fields: could have been the sequel (28 weeks).
That's what I've always gotten wrong with the two 🤦 I always have to Google 😂
Don't they run down into a helicopter
At the start of 28 weeks later the main character is chased down a field after they are discovered by the infected in a farm house. Yes later on a helicopter chops up the infected in a field
This is great but I prefer Weeks.
It's the second one.
I watched this film in the cinema. Alone. On a weekend afternoon. I remember when the film ended, walking out and there was nobody around. Very scary.
Excellent!
There is no blur filter over Britain. It's just that all of Britain is blurry. If you live in it, you don't notice it. But, in film, it becomes apparent.
It's true. Like how I remember my dad telling me that everything was black and white in Britain until around the late 50's and mid 60's, and then the spectrum shifted and the land and its people gradually shifted to being in colour, only some parts slower than others.
Movies like this are proof that with a good story and solid acting, you don't need a massive budget and tons of CGI to make a great film.
You need enough money to shut down London for a day. ;)
Quite true.
But how many zombie films do you want? Horror has always been one of the cheapest genres to produce. Low budget = low risk = you can experiment
How many marvel/dc movies do you want....
I mean that's kind of common sense
They attacked them at Jim's parents house because he lit a candle to have a look around while they were sleeping and saw the light from outside.
They were not zombies because they weren't "undead". They were the "infected". They didn't die before turning into one.
Infected with RAGE!
Came here to say the same thing. 👍🏽
Very true not a zombie movie
@@timw6097 Zombie: A brainless, will-less creature that is only capable of automatic movement. Hence the Cranberries song Zombie.
Supernatural vs Covid 20.
The little cottage at the end is the house I grew up in. I was 10 when they filmed it. It was so exciting having a whole film crew rolling into our sleepy valley 😂
Are you infected?
@@mikakorhonen5715 nah they had a very good vaccine programme 🙃
When Frank comforts Jim and Jim half asleep says "Thanks dad" just makes the later scene all the more sad :(
Jim's secret zombie survival ability was being a bike courier. Years of honing his reflexes and eye-hand coordination, the strategic aspect of having to plan and execute routes with a dozen variables flying at you. I really liked how he was portrayed so weak after being in a coma. But after some solid sleep, some moist raisins and a good pump of adrenaline in the face rape and death, he was able to activate his inner ninja.
Athletes were cast as the Infected because of how important physicality is to them. Danny Boyle felt that since athletes can do things other people can't, they would be interesting when translated into the movements of the Infected.
They are making a 3rd one called 28 year's later with Cillian returning to his role.
Lmfao, takes a really good look first then says "Hey, you could of put a pillow over it!" 😂😂😂😂😂
Haha, yes, hilarious!
@@davidhuggan6315she has to be absolutly certain first
@@stupidsmart-phone6911 Yes, my wife was the same! 🙂
@@stupidsmart-phone6911 Yes, my wife did the same!
"He's gonna be like Batman, pick them off one by one." Damn straight!
8:15 and thats why we love Dawn's good heart.
25:44 "he's only one man, what could he do?"
*famous last words*
Best line by Dawn - "Could have at least put a pillow over it" 😂
28 weeks later is the field.....chasing Begbie 😂
Nah being chased by Bergbie! 😂
(At 23:02) Clearly I have all of these men, I can only trust the Sergeant.
It might look like London got trashed in an apocalypse, but in fact, that's just London
😅 Not really. But funny!
@@johnmguzman7491 Yes, really.
@@Enigmatic.. no, it wasnt, it was a set dressed london shot during the summer at 4am. If its set dressed, it isnt just london, is it now. or do you think theres war type lost persons poster boards in London lmfao?
@@DangerMouse-n8l Dude your IQ is seriously low lol.
technically these run because they arent Zombies, they are "infected"
People with rabies act kinda, sorta exactly like this
@@melthebell33 Even if they were zombies … why not run fast. :)
Infected? Infected wif what??
@@callmeshaggy5166 the rage virus
Did u watch the movie?😅
One of the best screen adaptations of the John Wyndham novel _The Day of the Triffids_ (seriously, other than changing the monsters to zombies and the circumstances on how society collapsed, the film follows the novel's plot beats very closely). There was also a very loosely adapted movie version in 1962, and two miniseries in 1981 and 2009 which were a lot closer to the book, the latter of which also had Eddie Izzard playing Torrence (the same villain character that Chris Eccleston played in this movie).
I love how the z word is never mentioned in the entire movie. Makes it feel more real
Because they're not................
"My men haven't had sex in a month" Me: Amateurs
I live in Canada. Men here are lucky if they get it once a decade. The women here are monsters
No women in a month? Lightweights.
Return of the living dead is where they might have first been fast and intelligent.
The mom and dad in bed together is an image that has stuck with me for years since first seeing this film. I don't tend to be traumatized by horror films and such, but that one shot got me, and stuck.
Actually, you saw the alternate ending. The ending I saw in the theater was different. After the main character gets shot, the two women tried to revive him in a hospital type building but fail. The last shot featured the two women exiting the room, with the back to the viewer, in a long shot.
The DVD lists what you saw in theatre as the alternative ending lol
Many interesting back stories about the making of this film. Directed by Danny Boyle, often shot in London in the early hours, and a lot of the principal photography was done on multiple Canon XL1 cameras, a prosumer level camera at the time. Quite an innovative approach.
they werent even hd either, wasnt until 2nd gen XL's that they got HD, although they were the PAL ones so were 576i capable instead of just 480i
@@DangerMouse-n8l true. I'm not too technically aware, but I know they had 3 x sensors, and clearly the quality was more than enough for film making as Danny Boyle proved.
@@SeanHendy yeah i wasnt saying they were too weak, I was just saying how early a ''prosumer'' cam they were , and thats why the movie looks like it does nowadays on higher res screens, the source material wasnt Hd so its an upscale , which never looks good tbh. Watch it on a good crt and it looks way better.
@@DangerMouse-n8l here's the contradiction in the modern world. Yes, there is an expectation of HD, 4K, Ultra HD and all the rest, and YT videos often are these days, BUT, what is called 'film rate', is a film speed of just 24 frames per second. It's what gives a distinctive blur when objects move across the screen. Ironic that the iphone 16 pro is capable of 4k at 60 frames per second.
"What'd he get shot with??" A BLOODY GUN, DAWN.
Absolutely brilliant movie! One of my all-time favorite movies. This started the whole zombie revival and led to the Dawn of the Dead remake and The Walking Dead. Without this movie the whole modern zombie craze would not have happened.
This is hands-down the most beautiful and bittersweet zombie movie of all time. ❤
Yes, that's Cilian's murphy
Great that makers of this movie predicted Finland's NATO membership (Those fighter pilots in the end spoke Finnish)
"What the hell chance do I have if they can run?" You an' me both, Miss Dawn 🫤
28 Weeks Later has them running down a field at the beginning of the movie. Its a good film with some bigger stars, but you can tell Hollywood put $£ into production. 28 Years Later is now in development which I can't wait for. Alternative ending to this film showed them trying to heal Jim, but he dies and the two girls leave (no cottage ending).
For running Zombies I suggest Return of the Living Dead.
This!
Dawn taking a wee little peek in the beginning 😄
I don't know if we really needed to see Cillian's Murphy, but it's a pretty great movie.
amazing classic horror. U.K production in this film was superb
There are fast zombies, and there are slow zombies. Two different but valid concepts, that usually don't get mixed during one movie. I like the slow ones better, too.
There is one movie though that does mix up these two concepts on purpose in a humorous way: The romantic zombie comedy "Warm Bodies" from 2013.
Fast ones are deadly but slow ones are dangerous in their own way. They will eventually catch up to you and complacency kills you. Much like the immortal snail thing lol
I was always annoyed that Selina considered Frank and Hannah to be a liability that would slow her down, considering our first introduction to Frank is Selina and Jim running away and Frank demolishing the infected single-handed. Not only that, but "slowed down" on the way to.... where? Selina didn't have a plan; finding the soldiers in hopes of salvation was Frank's idea. Selina's "plan" was just wandering around aimlessly waiting to get outnumbered and killed.
You need to have a t-shirt that say "oh Jim....you've gone a bit mental !" 😁
The dad looks more like Hamish from Braveheart than Ricky Gervais but that's probably because he is.
RE: Picking Fast Zombie Bones; A: You're quite correct, "28 Days Later" is one of the key examples of how to subvert audience expectations because the Zombies in this case are not the run of the mill Undead which are usually found in a zombie movie, and therefore there's hardly any supernatural overtones or religious concerns. The religious imagery is a key element in a George A. Romero style of zombie film.
For something which takes this idea back into the actual Undead but still Fast Zombies, see also the British miniseries "Dead Set" which came out in the late 2000s and was produced by Charlie Brooker for ITV. It is a Satirical Horror series, I shouldn't say anything else about it...
The field of running zombies is def 28 weeks later
"Return of the Living Dead" also has running zombies and introduces the BRAINS phenomenon
28 Days later is my favorite horror film/franchise ever. I believe they are creating a 3rd part very soon. ❤
23:28 "I promised them women" and she actually asked "To do what with?" I just shook my head at that.
They used a lower quality digital camcorder for the shooting, which is why it has a sort of low res look. The newest in the series is being shot with an iPhone. Now you need to watch the film 'Rec'!
That "blur filter" or "grainy filter" of British movies could just be that there was a series of them coming out at that time, which was also a time of this aesthetic in movies, along with the shaky cam trend.
The dad was the best friend of William Wallace in Braceheart. Also starred in Gangs of New York.
The stand is a mini series that I've never seen a reaction to.
@kingspanky2794 You ,Me and the TV also known as You Me and the Movies are a reactor couple who've reacted to the Stand it's a great series i agree .
Enjoy the Halloween season 🎃🤘
These are not zombies (the undead). These are people infected with a "rage virus".
i agree that the slow zombies are better, and scarier than the silly fast ones. but i really liked this film anyway. and, in this case, the sequel, "28 weeks later," is even better. the opening sequence to the sequel is one of the most INTENSE scenes in movie history. like the hair and thanks for the video.
"Why do british movies always have that grainy filter?" its because of using different film formats, either DV or 16mm etc. (This film is DV, Dog Soldiers is 16mm) . Holywood uses 35mm. Using 35mm requires giant cameras on rails. So British directors often use more lightweight cameras enabling them to get a wider range of shots with far lesss hassle, and far less cost. Our stuff didnt have the budgets , or started out as low budget indie, then blew up, like this movie.
DV wasnt even HD at this time. It wasnt until the 2nd geenration of the cameras used in this, did they get Hd resolution. Hence why it doesnt look good on bluray, its just an upscale from 576i resolution
I've always thought, if there is a zombie apocalypse, and they can run we're all screwed
It always seems so counter intuitive that any zombie would be fast. I find it annoying that I would be faster, more athletic and have better stamina after I was dead and cold and becoming fly food, than I was when I was alive.
The zombie matrix is stupid vs smart and slow vs fast. If your zombies are fast and smart enough to work together, might as well give up.
This is my favourite zombie movie. Can't believe they are finally making 28 Months Later!
Dawn of the Dead has running and jumping zombies. Possibly heaps.
Running zombies, unless they're T800's aka Zombieland 2 - Double tap
The opening sequence of The Day of the Triffids written by John Wyndham inspired Alex Garland (the screenwriter) to write the screenplay. It's a brilliant book I can highly recommend it.
The deserted streets I saw during Covid lockdown were frightfully like the ones in this film
Dawn, you do a great job. I think you're an excellent content creator, and I always look forward to your stuff. Hoping you keep on doing well.
Technically, they're _not_ zombies - they're very, very angry (but alive) humans...
infected is a better word.
Sounds like a certain radicalized group
Nah they are zombies. A zombie is a person who loses control of their minds and body. These infected are not UNDEAD, which most people think of when they think of zombies, but the infected are still very much zombies.
@@searthngeamnope, you wouldn't say a person infected with rabies is a zombie. The people in this movie are infected with rage, like rabies.
@@searthngeam No, they are not zombies, zombies are the dead coming back to live, that is not the case in this movie. It's a virus, they are infected.
And thus began the great debate to see if these were zombies or just "infected" lol. This is definitely one of the best zombie movies and in my eyes defines the zombie genre in general only after "Night of the Living Dead." Glad to see you enjoyed the movie, it only took me until fairly recently to actually watch this whole movie because this terrified me so much. The 2nd one isn't as great but you should definitely see it. If you liked this one you should definitely check out "Train to Busan" and "Kingdom"
Let's have Dawn go back to something more like actual zombie zombies - do "The Serpent And The Rainbow" next !
Fast zombies, slow zombies, doesn't matter. If it eats flesh, was formally human, incoherent, feral, it's a zombie
Your intro movie scene was 28 weeks later. The best zombie movie ever made and it's not even close.
12:15 we can go for weeks without rain in the south of England. Come visit sometime. Hasnt snowed in a decade.
he was in a coma after an accident on a bike and just woke up. he was a courier.
I liked the "spooky" synthwave at the beginning.....
That shot with the infected running down the hill is within 5 minutes of the opening of the sequel. It has a very different feel from the first, but still a very enjoyable movie. Would make a great reaction, wink wink, nudge nudge 😂
This is my favorite zombie movie. And I think for sure zombies would sprint, they only want one thing: to eat/kill/spread the infection. Meaning it’s going to run as hard and fast as it can because it can’t think, it won’t conserve stamina or track you. If it hears you or sees you, it’s running. Kind of like in World War Z, it’s more “real” that way. I never liked the whole “dead rising from the grave” trope about zombies, but infection, virus or fungus is much more believable like rabies. So yeah, running is absolutely fair.
ohhhh u poor sweet girl u got scared! 5:02 i was like awwwww i dont think ive ever seen u jump like that with that look on ur face. hugs
Another great British movie for Halloween is Dog Soldiers.
You should defos watch 28 Weeks Later (the one with the field scene) next! It’s amazing how they manage to maintain the same doom-laden tone whilst making it more action-y. I love them both equally.
I agree that undead zomnies shouldn't be very fast after a few days of reanimating. Reasons include rigomortis [muscles stiffening], bloating due to gaseous buildup caused by decomposition, and becauss an undead walking about would have bodily fluids being drawn to the feet and lower legs.
BUT a recently dead person that reanimates definitely could run as the muscles are in good condition, no bloating and fluids pooling have started yet. Plus they don't have to breathe or worry about a heart attack. If they want to run the fresh undead, most certainly can.
I know I'm late to the party.. but oh my god, your hair 🔥🔥🔥
Babe.
For the ragey spiders you wanted, watch 8-Legged Freaks!
As a bonus it's got Scarlett Johannson before her nose job
I have a friend who hates walking Zombie films. He thinks that they can't be scary because anyone can simply outrun them. Threat averted. But the TWD series has been very clever and inventive in making walking Zombies a serious threat, especially when there are hordes of them, as it was in the first episode of the TWD. But of course this film has nothing to do with Zombies. Rage "Infected" are still living human beings and therefore can run. But to watch a good running Zombie TV series, check out the 8 episode "Black Summer" series.
Now ragey spiders would be truly terrifying!
Since we are on the topic of rage, there's a thriller movie called "Unhinged" (2020) where a pickup truck driver (Russell Crowe) has some psychotic road rage issues against one female motorist. Its basically an updated version of "Duel" which was Steven Spielberg's 1971 debut film.
The new hair color looks really good!
"found a liul cuichs" LOL
Dawn remember when running from a zombie you dont have to be faster than the zombie just faster than another person thats also running
Red hair makes you look wild ❤😅
Awesome film! Not fooling anyone with the red hair dawn! Your numptiness reveals your blonde 😂😂 Ty for the reaction mate.
They just finished filming 28 Years later with 2 more movies also coming up.
I’m with you. My favorite zombies are in Sean of the Dead - slow zombies. My least favorite are in World War Z - very fast zombies.
Sounds like you saw part of the opening to 28 Weeks Later, which is also really good.
I can't wait to hear Dawn's thoughts on this Rom Com. I recommend " Warm Bodies ". I think she will like it.
Ok, I’m sit down and watch this on November 24th.
I think people always vastly overestimate their chances in a slow moving Romero zombie apocalypse. Most people, despite their lofty declarations from air conditioned rooms right now, can't magically turn on the Rambo machine and start swinging axes intoskulls. Mentally or physically. Some of you won't be able to slay your undead relatives let alone strangers without hesitating. Hesitation is what gets most of you in the first hours. Also most of y'all just aren't built like lumberjacks so you'll tire out by the 3rd zombie at best with blunt objects.
Also I lump myself in this too. I wouldn't fair well either. I love zombie films but even knowing the rules doesn't turn you into Bill from Left 4 Dead. Still its always funny hearing someone talk like life would be like Shaun of the Dead in a full blown apocalypse. Don't think so.
You're right, but I posit in reality you wouldn't find yourself in the situations you see on screen. In movies it's either a few people vs. a horde or huge crowds trampling people in a stampede towards a single location. And those kinds of things do happen in reality, but they are the exception rather than the norm.
Social cooperation in medium-to-largish groups is human beings' defining trait. There are about 20 people in my building. In less than an hour, we could barricade ground-floor doors and windows and fill containers with weeks' worth of drinking water. Weeks to plan, find other survivor groups, wait out the threat, or whatever. In any case, much better chances than jumping right to crushing skulls.
History is full of small groups surviving truly dire situations. It's just that when someone sits down to write a zombie story, that's not the kind of tale they want to tell.
@@noodle_fc Stories. Any story is always built on conflict. So a zombie story of cooperation wouldn't sell as well. True. I am saying that in a crisis scenario. As in no food, water, electricity, gas, etc there is a possibility for people, like your neighbors, to switch up and not be so cooperative as they are when a blackout happens. Because this isn't a blackout or the aftermath of a hurricane.
Also we are just going with this hypothetical that everyone living in your building all independently understand and abide by basic zombie rules (isolate or "deal with" bit people, including reanimated roommates locked away), which I doubt. Yes, we can all survive the aftermath of all of tough stuff together but we all didn't grow up on Romero films and I guarantee one neighbor will hide a zombie (or personal zombie bite) either out of extreme ignorance/fear/denial or out of some spiritual belief and essentially doom the building
I harp on this detail to say that individual people will deal with stuff they don't understand very differently. Everyone is civil, knows exactly what to do and is on the same page when the power/water goes out because there is an assumption that the power/water will eventually come back on. A zombie plague is newer ground. Mistakes can be made. And it only takes a single mistake, like say when Mr. Williamson in 2R fails to tell anyone that he locked old zombie Fran in his pantry, to end the whole block. We as a collective species will simply act too slow to stop a full blown zombie outbreak.
And all this to bring it back around to my central point which is nobody is prepared for this specific kind of apocalypse the way that they think they are. Respectfully ya'll sound a bit like John Hammond from Jurassic Park the way you think you'll have any control over a situation thats built upon pure chaos. Zombies don't shuffle in single file lines after all.
@@habadasheryjones All I'm saying is it's objectively unlikely that survival will depend on an individual's ability to wield a club, and that humans in groups have a pretty good track record for survival.
Seems you disagree with the second part. That's fair enough, but for my money, cooperation has seen people through too much shit too many times to be discounted as plain naivete. Every new situation is pure chaos until someone decides to organize.
Well, I never hear anyone admit they'd be gone in like the first wave of a situation like this. It's always, "I'd do this to survive." I'd be more worried about my fellow man vs a zombie. Cooperation is great but I don't have much faith alot of us could manage to still help eachother in a situation like this.
2 zombie films you need to watch is "The Dead" (set in Africa) and "The Dead 2:India" by the Ford Brothers, both brilliant, well made and the difference in how the zombie apocalypse affects both continents is great
You’re talking about the sequel 28 WEEKS LATER. Most likely the epic opening scene and not a later scene.
They are not zombies. They are infected.
Same thing.
"If they are not corpses who came back to life thanks to some kind of Haitian voodoo, they are not zombies". (If we're going to be purists about it.)
@@wyldhowl2821 Except they were never corpses. They are not under the control of voodoo witchdoctors. They are simply infected with a blood born virus.
@@Blutteufel Dead is the same as alive?
They are for all practical purposes zombies.
Raisins are less disgusting than Malteaser’s Dawn
I like raisins & I also like malteasers, but which is better? There's only one way to find out...
I too love Maltesers.
If you are interested in zombie movies, check out World War Z with Brad Pitt.
"He's gonna be like Batman ..."
Not my diagnosis. 😉
I know you like the Happy Ending, but maybe you didn't know that on the DVD there is an alternative ending where she does not save him😥
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i loooooove this movie. best lo-fi old school horror ive seen