In 2002, Danny Boyle, famous earlier for the daring drama “On the Needle”, in a creative tandem with Alex Garland, who wrote “The Beach” and directed “Out of the Car”, managed to make a revolutionary breakthrough in the zombie horror genre. In their project, they manage to devastate London, after filling it with garbage and wild aggressive creatures. The film has an IMDb rating of 7.60, reviews "28 days later" received mostly positive.
Original approach
Among the mass advantages of the horror movie genre, the opportunity for creators to translate their most sophisticated ideas on the screen is especially significant. Each person is afraid of something, which means that when you try for the living you can hurt any viewer. In this, Danny Boyle, according to critics in the reviews of "28 days later," succeeded. He made the scariest film about human furious madness after the cult "Psycho" by A. Hitchcock, and there are practically no people in the picture. The director shows the insane infected. The details of the experiment, as a result of which the infection began, were left overs, but its apocalyptic consequences are central to the story. It is only known that British scientists experimented with monkeys, infecting them with the "rage" virus. Activists fighting for animal rights release infected individuals, monkeys bite their saviors, and they instantly turn into bloodthirsty zombies.
Movie begins
Viewers in the reviews of the film "28 days later" note the successful name of the picture. After all, it was in 28 days that the majority of the population was infected, since there was no incubation period for the infection. 20 seconds after the bite, a person loses the gift of articulate speech, does not recognize relatives and friends, chases after them, pursuing the only goal - to devour. Strangers also do not disdain carnivorous monsters, although they do not cause appetite from each other. This moment, as a serious problem, was presented in the form of a complaint to the authors of the picture by individual corrosive reviewers who resisted the pioneering pressure of Danny Boyle in reviews of “28 days later”.
But the majority of the audience while watching it turns out to be a dumbfounded aggressive manner of shooting a digital camera, which inevitably gives a “documentary” touch to the narrative, so it will lose its desire to seek out flaws and ask questions. Death breaks out of the test tube, the epidemic turns into a pandemic, humanity is inexorably dying, and in this place the movie actually begins.
Contrary to established tradition
The picture of Danny Boyle "28 days later" in the reviews, the audience called the iconic for the genre. The director first showed the public "fast" zombies, although he had them more likely to be infected alive than the rebellious dead. But not the point. The main thing is that the director was not afraid to destroy many years of canons. It was in his project that the bloodthirsty monsters first tried themselves as sprinters. This idea was finally introduced into the genre after the "Dawn of the Dead" by Zach Snyder. In the latest examples of the zombie horror genre, the "walking" are becoming more rapid, from film to film. And in 2002, a running crowd of infected inflicted panic in the audience. Critics of the 28-day-later reviews delighted in the chaotic, ragged editing of Judge Dredd’s cameraman Anthony Dod Mantle and Chris Gill’s signature delights under John Murphy’s delightful soundtrack. Indeed, all of these components create an atmosphere of unconscious horror, unbridled madness and all-consuming panic.
It should be noted that Boyle not only experimented with dynamics, he paid tribute to the traditions laid down by George Romero. He did everything to turn inside out the bestial nature of man, giving a 100% immersive effect, after which became a chip of the modern zombie horror genre.