![]() She is infected, yet shows none of the angry murdering symptoms that affected everyone else in Britain. When Alice is relocated to the safe zone, she’s studied for her genetic resilience to the Rage Virus. This film (and other movies like 28 Days Later) asks this question perfectly. ![]() But are movies like 28 Weeks Later even zombie films at all? The crux of this article will come as a shock to no one as I’ve been hinting at it pretty hard for the entirety of what’s written. So we move… Zombie Flick or Pandemic Apocalypse? Be pragmatic, jeeze.Īnyway, for those that haven’t seen it, that’s a pretty good set up without spoiling the entirety of the movie. I mean come on, Alice (the mum, played by Catherine McCormack) life isn’t a shoddy Shakespeare play, mangled by Hollywood, and then beamed directly into your definition of what love is. Which, short side note, but imagine having two kids and being pissed at your husband for not coming back to certain death to rescue you when you have TWO KIDS stranded in bloody Spain. And she is pissed at Don, who left her behind. Instead, mum escaped the swarm that attacked her at the movie’s beginning as she has a rare mutation that allows her to survive the Rage virus. It’s something that COVID-19 taught us doesn’t just belong to the realms of horror cinema… but I’m getting ahead of myself.īut, uh oh, mum actually isn’t dead, as the kids find out when they break out of the safe zone (we’ve all lived through enough lockdowns by now, so we know how plausible this is) to visit their old family home. It’s a question that we’ve had hammered home to us constantly recently. A representation of something more harrowing than horrifying: where do we draw the line between what is human and what is not? ![]() A civilisation collapsing under the weight of their undead. Instead, they inspire terror through sheer volume and isolation. Their terror never lay in their prowess to hunt you in the night, nor in their influence over your life. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead – 28 Days Later.Īfter watching that movie and other movies like 28 Days Later and the beautiful cinematography that punctuates them, I began to see zombies as something more meaningful to horror… or, at the very least, more reflective. Give me the tantalising mystery of a witch’s plot, or the smug, aristocratic violence of a vampire coven, I say! This was, of course, until I watched my generations version of George A. Slow, shuffling walks, a basic need to “ braaiinnss!” and their penchant in parodies for having limbs ripped off and still sliding along the floor like human-esque slugs just never really did it for me. ![]() Out of the pantheon of horror critters that exist, the Zombie always felt a little redundant. ![]()
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