28 Tage später

Eine Reproduktion des Stoffes des durchschnittlichen Romero-Films Zombie 2 - Das letzte Kapitel. Die visuelle und musikalische Seite sind aber schlecht. Ich will ein Zelluloid-Remake von Guillermo del Toro mit der Musik von Marco Beltrami und einem großen Budget! (26.05.2003)

28 Tage später hat mir gefallen, sogar sehr. Ich kann aber nicht den Eindruck loswerden, dass ein erheblicher Teil des Films im Schneideraum geblieben ist. Der Übergang zwischen den beiden Teilen (dem Roadmovie-Teil und dem militärischen Teil) kam mir nämlich ein bisschen überstürzt vor. Ansonsten habe ich an dem Film nichts auszusetzen. Es war mir klar, dass ein Horrorfilm mit der Regie von Danny Boyle kein gewöhnlicher Horrorfilm sein wird… Das ist er auch nicht. Zum Glück. Ich habe mich oft gewundert, wie unbeschwert seine Stimmung ist. Das lag sicherlich auch am Soundtrack. Die Schreckmomente haben gut funktioniert, die fleischfressenden Sprinter waren richtig schaurig… Das gesteigerte, nervenaufreibende, wilde und atemberaubende Finale war auch toll. (25.08.2012)

Though, strictly speaking, 28 Days Later should not be ranked among zombie movies, given that the origin of the apocalypse it depicts would rather place it among contagion films, it draws directly from the tradition of zombie-apocalypse movies on many levels. Furthermore, its international box-office success had a fundamental impact on the revitalisation of the zombie genre in the new millennium. The legacy of zombie movies in the Romero tradition is fully evident here, as the monsters and the apocalypse associated with them serve both as a catalyst for a drama involving a handful of survivors and as a mirror held up to contemporary society and its ills. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland focused specifically on the global phenomenon of rage, which they see – at least in England – as the result of frustration arising from unfulfilled ideals about the value and importance of the individual in a democratic society. The use of digital cameras highlights the immediate tension of the characters, while also serving as a reminder of the mass deployment of security cameras, which are intended to protect people, but only contribute to anxiety and the feeling of diminished privacy, as well as to rising fear in the population brought on by the released footage of criminal acts being committed. (15.09.2013)

First of all, I was surprised that Boyle would venture into something like zombie (or rather, contagion) horror. But as such, I understood it at the beginning and therefore wondered about the inappropriately placed scenes, unsuitable for this genre. Even the unusual musical score suggested that something was amiss. And in the second half, it became clear. Against the backdrop of the struggle for survival, Boyle attempts to portray the behaviour of people in a liminal situation, when they have a choice between retaining a shred of their humanity or being overwhelmed by an instinctive desire to survive at any cost, even at the cost of harming others, and he really doesn't give people the best report card. One of the soldiers in the film says that people killed each other before and will kill each other in the future, in that sense, they are not really that different from the infected. The "infected" themselves are very reminiscent of the aggressive running zombies from Snyder's remake and can occasionally cause a few hear attack situations. (08.12.2003)

Raw British horror that replaces slow zombies with fast infected people, influencing this horror subgenre for many years to come. The casting of Cillian Murphy in the main role was an interesting move, his face has both boyish and girlish features and his transformation from “someone who’s being dragged on” into “the one that saves everybody” was also interesting. Great. (17.11.2007)