28 Weeks Later

[Easy 10]

I watched this last night, and if there's been a better horror film in the last 5 years, then I've yet to see it. 28 Days Later was good, but this one takes it on to a whole new level. I've had this argument on here before, and I STILL say zombies who can run like the CLAPPERS are FAR more terrifying than the old George A. Romero ones who lumber along uselessly. Jesus, the ones in this one are like zombies on RED BULL (ok I know they're not technically zombies, they're just infected by the Rage virus, but the effect is largely the same). I found myself actually chewing my own FIST during some of the action sequences.

Terrific performance from Robert Carlyle, and the abandoned London was brilliantly shot - loads of panning aerial scenes over Canary Wharf and around Tower Bridge, genuinely eery to see it all deserted. Looks like there'll be another one in the pipeline as well. QUALITY scarediness.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Not bad at all but found some of it a bit false. That built up protection zone was totally unbelievable.

Still good entertainment.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I saw it for the first time last Friday - hoe long is it? It seemed quite short to me?

The 'journey' the the character Robert Carlyle took was interesting - not how I thought it would pan out.

7/10

 

[Easy 10]

I did wonder why they were moving people back into London only 6 months after the outbreak of the virus. But the refugee camps sounded grim, so I guess they wanted to re-populate the capital sooner rather than later (despite there still being carnage, chaos, overturned cars, ransacked houses and rotting corpses all over the shop). Still, no worse than an average day in Croydon I suppose.

 

[algie]

The trouble is though Easy,any horror films rated by yourself must come under serious scrutiny.I don't believe you have grasp the concept what a true good old horror film should entail.It's all about blood and scaring you shitless.
You went on record saying you left the cinema because you found the Saw movie repulsive.Is that not what a horror film should be about? I get the impression that what you class as a horror is the old hammer house films of the 70's.Where the scary bit is right at the end of the film, leaving you in suspense.
Those days are well gone mate.They wouldn't even scare my 12 year old daughter.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Algie - there is a bit early on in this one that made my jump off the sofa... in the house in the country. It's not gorey, just a surprise.

Are they making a third movie then? It makes sense, they way they left it...

 

[Gazwag]

Has it got two endings like the first one. Yet to see it, sitting waiting on Sky+ in glorious HD

 

[Easy 10]

The trouble is though Easy,any horror films rated by yourself must come under serious scrutiny.I don't believe you have grasp the concept what a true good old horror film should entail.It's all about blood and scaring you shitless.
You went on record saying you left the cinema because you found the Saw movie repulsive.Is that not what a horror film should be about? I get the impression that what you class as a horror is the old hammer house films of the 70's.Where the scary bit is right at the end of the film, leaving you in suspense.
Those days are well gone mate.They wouldn't even scare my 12 year old daughter.

Its NOT all about blood and scaring you shitless. One of my all time favourite horrors is The Shining, and there's barely any gore in that at all. I just thought 28 Weeks later was particularly effective because instead of lining up a series of completely one-dimensional cardboard nobodies to be eaten, they actually shaped proper characters with back-stories, so when they DID meet their (inevitably grisly) end, it had that much more impact.

Saw 3 was just a load of basic, contrived horror porn setting out purely to disgust. There was nothing clever in it, no suspense or tension. 28 Weeks Later was very well crafted, and I thought genuinely unsettling as a result.

 

[algie]

Its NOT all about blood and scaring you shitless. One of my all time favourite horrors is The Shining, and there's barely any gore in that at all. I just thought 28 Weeks later was particularly effective because instead of lining up a series of completely one-dimensional cardboard nobodies to be eaten, they actually shaped proper characters with back-stories, so when they DID meet their (inevitably grisly) end, it had that much more impact.

Saw 3 was just a load of basic, contrived horror porn setting out to disgust. 28 Weeks Later was very well crafted, and I thought genuinely unsettling as a result.

Sounds like your getting your film descriptions mixed up.I think what you like is a thriller not a horror.

 

[Josky]

So you'd argue a film like Ring is a thriller rather than a horror on that basis, Algie?

 

[algie]

I haven't seen it so i cannot pass judgement.

 

[Easy 10]

Sounds like your getting your film descriptions mixed up.I think what you like is a thriller not a horror.

I know what I like thanks. I like a DECENT horror film with a proper storyline, not just a straightforward, brainless splatterfest that covers up its lack of a decent plot by plastering as much skull and crimson all over the screen as possible.

I watched The Thing the other week again (the John Carpenter one). Now THATS a damn good horror, and has probably the greatest non-cgi effects I have ever seen in a film. Gory as hell, but simply brilliant. Garbage like Saw 3 can't hold a candle to something like that.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Has it got two endings like the first one. Yet to see it, sitting waiting on Sky+ in glorious HD

I had a quick look at the features and could only see a small number of deleted scenes; and a few 'featurettes', so it looks like there is only 1 ending.

 

[Easy 10]

So you'd argue a film like Ring is a thriller rather than a horror on that basis, Algie?

I thought The Ring was terrific. In the cinema, my blood literally ran cold when she came out of the TV. One of the most memorably shocking moments of any film. Also the bit where there's a flash, a split second, of that dead girl in her bedroom when her head lolls forward.

WHOA !

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

What Easy said. The Shining scared me shitless, but is considerably less bloody than, say, Texax Chainsaw Massacre (I haven't seen any of the Saw franchise so can't comment). So called gore-porn appalls and disgusts, but is not scary. I think the function of a horror film is to scare. Edit: ditto the Ring (the original at least) - proper scary.

The Shining fits the description of a horror miles better than a gore-fest, IMHO.

 

[algie]

I know what I like thanks. I like a DECENT horror film with a proper storyline, not just a straightforward, brainless splatterfest that covers up its lack of a decent plot by plastering as much skull and crimson all over the screen as possible.

I watched The Thing the other week again (the John Carpenter one). Now THATS a damn good horror, and has probably the greatest non-cgi effects I have ever seen in a film. Gory as hell, but simply brilliant. Garbage like Saw 3 can't hold a candle to something like that.

Remember the Burning? Thats what a horror is.The Thing is a class film but i just wouldn't really call it a true horror.Also the Fog is a good film by Carpenter.

 

[algie]

What Easy said. The Shining scared me shitless, but is considerably less bloody than, say, Texax Chainsaw Massacre (I haven't seen any of the Saw franchise so can't comment). So called gore-porn appalls and disgusts, but is not scary. I think the function of a horror film is to scare. Edit: ditto the Ring (the original at least) - proper scary.

The Shining fits the description of a horror miles better than a gore-fest, IMHO.

The shining isn't a scary film or infact that good.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Have to say the original Ring is a horror masterpiece.

 

[Seagullible]

there seems to be 2 kinds of horror, the gross impact 'shock' horror, and then the longer winded psycological horror imho

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Sounds like your getting your film descriptions mixed up.I think what you like is a thriller not a horror.

Have to say Shining is more a thriller than a horror.