28 Days Later...wasn't this supposed to be scary?

[StarvingStudent47]

Okay, first off. I'm not one of those macho guys who isn't phased by horror movies. I couldn't sleep after watching The Ring: I had to go to a friend's house and watch The Never-Ending Story to get myself settled again. So I figured 28 Days Later would be too much for me, and I didn't watch it when it was in the theaters.

But I just rented it, and I wasn't scared AT ALL. Did this happen to anyone else? I thought that the excessive use of oblique angles hurt the atmosphere of the film more than it added too it. And Stolichnaya-inspired courage is always a bonus.

The only other theory I have is this: for Hanukkah, my brother gave me a copy of The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=51BM14AFSS&isbn=1400049628&itm=1). And after that, I just can't think about zombies without giggling.

So seriously, am I the only person who wasn't the least bit frightened by this movie?

[Pandy]

Only part that made me jump was when he try to open the door to that car, and the alarm goes off...

:cantbeli:

[hood]

I agree about the Ring.. I just got a shiver from thinking of that girl coming out of the television. I wasn't scared in the least with 28 days, although I was really impressed on how they made London (right city?) into a barren wasteland where you really felt it was deserted. There's yet another zombie movie coming out actually.. a remake of an old classic.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/dawnofthedead/

[ShotOver]

I don't understand paying good money to scare yourself... i don't see the logic in that.

:|

[Operation Ivy]

I liked 28 Days Later, i thought the Zombies were really good, only jumped when the zombie bust through the window near the end and kill that Brit...........but Resident Evil was a crappy zombie movie, and they looked like crap

[Javehn]

Ring is the kick ass movie .
Before the US made ring , i saw the 3 chapters of Japaniese "Ring". Not scary , and boring .

[cut]

I was really impressed on how they made London (right city?) into a barren wasteland where you really felt it was deserted.

yeah it was London apparently they did it at the crack of dawn, presumably after clearing the drunks left from the night before esp. round oxford street

[Beowulf]

I thought it wa s a pretty good flick...I liked how the zombies were fast instead of gimping around . I saw it in th theatre and it's easier to get "into" a movie if you go to see it instead of watching it at home.

[budanski]

The "Ring" was entertaining to say the least. What I didnt get was why the girl was killing off folks who could tell her story. Talk about shooting the messenger.

If I got it wrong, someone please clear this up with me. :|

[Haiw]

Is 28 Days Later even supposed to be scary? Anyway...great movie if you ask me.

[UkrainianAmerican]

I watched the 28 days in theater, and I loved hows it started. Any movie with Dumbass animal rights activists being killed off in very violent ways, is already oscar-worthy in my book. :lol:

[Jack Mehoff]

I watched the 28 days in theater, and I loved hows it started. Any movie with Dumbass animal rights activists being killed off in very violent ways, is already oscar-worthy in my book. :lol:

good point http://digilander.libero.it/doniuccia/faccine/Biggrin/yllol.gif

[Flagg]

I thought 28 Days was more of a spooky Action/Thriller than Horror......

But I have to agree with you guys on The Ring.

Here in New Zealand we have designated seating, but if the movie isn't crowded, people move around wherever they want.

My girlfriend and I went to see it with two of my mates in the service visiting from the US and about 50 other people in a very large theatre.

Less than 5 minutes into the movie we were all cramped together like a bunch of scared rabbits....if I wasn't so f'n scared I would have been laughing my ass off at how weak we all were.

[stateofequilibrium]

The original version of The Ring was the best.

28 Days Later had many similarities to Dawn of the Dead, though DotD was never meant to be "Scary." 28 Days Later's problem was that it didn't know what to be. An action flick, a thriller or a commentary on society as DotD chose itself to be. So it was really schizoid.. and it copped out on some good potential to show modern military might against unstoppable zombies.

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

28 days later story line was absolutely pathetic and laughable. Sure there was good parts, but you mean to tell me that the infection spread off of britian to everyone else? Like wouldnt they close the island(Britian) and bomb the **** outta it? It had a couple good plot twists but I'm glad I downloaded it rather then paying to watch it.

The Ring wasnt too scary....I downloaded Gothika and I'll tell you guys how that goes.

P.s. It would've been a better movie if they showed riots and people and zombies being infected at the start....now that would've been worth paying for.

[UkrainianAmerican]

28 days later story line was absolutely pathetic and laughable. Sure there was good parts, but you mean to tell me that the infection spread off of britian to everyone else? Like wouldnt they close the island(Britian) and bomb the **** outta it? It had a couple good plot twists but I'm glad I downloaded it rather then paying to watch it.

The Ring wasnt too scary....I downloaded Gothika and I'll tell you guys how that goes.

P.s. It would've been a better movie if they showed riots and people and zombies being infected at the start....now that would've been worth paying for.
Well u dont know if it actually spread to EVERYWHERE. since in the end, there was a nice jet flying over, so...
I thought it is Texas National guard, hehe, because no zombies gonna survive texas ehhehe.

[HappyCat]

I thought 28 Days was more of a spooky Action/Thriller than Horror......

But I have to agree with you guys on The Ring.

Here in New Zealand we have designated seating, but if the movie isn't crowded, people move around wherever they want.

My girlfriend and I went to see it with two of my mates in the service visiting from the US and about 50 other people in a very large theatre.

Less than 5 minutes into the movie we were all cramped together like a bunch of scared rabbits....if I wasn't so f'n scared I would have been laughing my ass off at how weak we all were.


yeah I was watching the ring with my gf at my house. In the first seen when the phone rings and the girl is realy scared to pick it up, less than a half second after she picked up the phone my phone rang. That scared the **** outta me.

[HappyCat]

28 days later story line was absolutely pathetic and laughable. Sure there was good parts, but you mean to tell me that the infection spread off of britian to everyone else? Like wouldnt they close the island(Britian) and bomb the **** outta it?


In the movie they actually say that they realize that the infection didn't spread off the island and the world had blockaded england from everything else.

[UkrainianAmerican]

28 days later story line was absolutely pathetic and laughable. Sure there was good parts, but you mean to tell me that the infection spread off of britian to everyone else? Like wouldnt they close the island(Britian) and bomb the **** outta it?


In the movie they actually say that they realize that the infection didn't spread off the island and the world had blockaded england from everything else.
They say that newspapers talk about outburts in New York(damn it, sucks for me) and Paris (haha), and i really dont remember them saying that england got blockaded.

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Im pretty sure they said it spread world wide, I do remeber the jet flying over head at the end but I got the feeling that it was "spread all over the world". Maybe in the dvd version theres like 8 alternate endings that might shed some more light on it.

[SOG]

it was decent. for the budget it had it was kinda fun. i like the scope and fantasy tale and seeing the emptiness of towns. that was more freaky then the zombies. an it was cool when that black soldier zombie got loose and went nuts. fun movie, not long enough really. about as scary as any mad max movie aka more interesting in the time it takes place in.

[StarvingStudent47]

Im pretty sure they said it spread world wide, I do remeber the jet flying over head at the end but I got the feeling that it was "spread all over the world". Maybe in the dvd version theres like 8 alternate endings that might shed some more light on it.

No, the alternate endings don't explain anything.

Alternate ending #1: Same plot outline as the main ending, but filmed in a different manner, with slightly different dialogue.

Alternate ending #2: Jim dies from the gunshot wound to the stomach, even though the woman and the girl get him to the hospital and try to safe him. The girl asks "what now?" The woman responds "we keep moving." They walk out of the hospital, carrying SA80s and still wearing the red dresses. The end. No mention of the zombie outbreak being defeated.

Alternate ending #3: Not actually filmed, just a storyboard. A radical change from the plot of the movie. It goes back to where the father is infected. The soldiers never arrive, and it's just Jim, the woman, and the girl trying to survive--though they capture the infected father and hog-tie him instead of killing him. They reach the hospital where "the cure" was supposed to be. A doctor has barricaded himself in a room, and won't come out, but he'll talk to them through the door. The doctor tells them that they can do a total body transfer of blood to cure the infection, but someone needs to give all their blood. Jim volunteers. The father is saved and becomes human again, but Jim is left infected, thrashing around on the operating table. The end. (I can see why they didn't implement this version)