28 Weeks Later

Release Day: May 11, 2007

Watch Day: October 11, 2023

“Twenty eight weeks after a virus has wiped out all human life in the UK, the island is declared safe, and people start to move back, only to be attacked by thousands who have been infected by a new airborne version of the virus.”

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    I hate zombies.

    I hate them.

    I made this very, very clear to Bob when we first got together. I hate zombies. Zombies are mindless, killing machines whose plague like spread does not make the health care worker in me very comfortable. Especially after, you know, a plague.

    But it took him literally only to his second pick to choose a zombie movie, so much for “easing me in.”

    Beyond the subject matter, which, again, sucks – I can not overstate this – this wasn’t a terrible movie. I don’t like shakey cameras. It makes sense when the film is “found footage,” but this very much isn’t. So that just sort of annoys me.

    I don’t like the father, at all, or how he keeps being played up as this villain when he is also just a mindless rage machine. He’s not the leader of the zombies, and it’s kind of weird how he’s sort of portrayed to be almost hunting his children? Plus, maybe don’t give a civilian an all access pass to the secure military medical facility? That kind of seems like a stupid decision.

    I also don’t like an ambiguous ending. This one made me sad. It just made me sad.

    But Bob likes it. Bob thinks it has an amazing intro sequence. Bob thinks the way the virus works is interesting. Bob likes several of the shots and he likes to guess at what the ending means.

    Bob did not like me constantly making fun of his home countries’ armed forces, who do not do a good job of actually resecuring London and/or protecting a civilian population. They don’t even manage to stop two children from escaping from the quarantine zone. Bad US Army. You can do better. Or maybe you can’t? It would explain a lot.

    Bob also did not like the fact that the original film, ’28 Days Later,’ had been removed from Disney+; but sometimes that’s how the Mickey Mouse shaped cookie crumbles, whether or not it seems fair.

    Also, can I just say, the blurb up there says the virus has become airborne and I did not get that impression at all. People were still only becoming infected after contact with bodily fluids, and no one was breathing in shared air and becoming infected. Someone exchanged a kiss and became infected but like…that’s not breathing. That’s saliva. And not a lot of rage filled zombie monsters are going around kissing other people anyway, at least not to my knowledge.

    If you like zombie movies, I bet you’d like this one. If you’re like me, and your mind creates enough horror on the daily, thank you generalized anxiety disorder, than you might think all non-kid friendly Halloween movies are awful and you might be regretting Spooky Season with a husband who loves all the things that go bump in the night.

    But maybe that’s just a highly specific scenario. Who could say?