JCC Amph 28 Days / Weeks / Years Later

For that other series about Infected that are totally not zombies, here's that sweet trailer again



That is confirmed as not Cillian Murphy at the end. Also, one of the most viewed horror trailers ever and 28 Days Later is finally coming to digital on December 18th (after being temporarily yanked for sales awhile ago as the franchise moved to Sony). Early Infected Christmas present!

 

The zombie genre has been in a serious slump ever since 28dl came out. Mostly because nothing else has or ever will measure up. Probably also not this but we can dream.

 

It turns out we were the zombies all along.

 

I still like the reference in Shaun of the Dead. "Claims that the virus was caused by rage-infected monkeys have now been dismissed as bull-"

 

OG trailer reposted by Sony with the digital release date, just ignore that Fox Searchlight logo. This franchise had two banger trailers! I feels like it is using the same late 90s early 2000s techno and Nu Metal riffs that was in the X-Men trailer (and maybe the Resident Evil trailer too). Someone at Fox trailer department loved that riff!

 

I think the DV gives it a gritty dark energy, like the footage is busted like the world itself. I thought DV also worked in Collateral like the whole thing is caught on security cameras. Any other DV experiments from the 2000s don't work anywhere near as well

 

Still never watched Weeks. I guess I better rewatch Days and get to Weeks. This looks good.

 

The opening of Weeks is fab even if one doesn't like the rest of the movie (which Boyle apparently directed the opening scene)

Oh and I should mention that the 28 Years Later sequel has already been filmed by the Marvels director so we're definitely getting two of a proposed trilogy. 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple Pretty sure you can see some Bone Temple in the trailer

 

A digital release is huge! The OG has never been on digital and is out of print on disc.

 

Yah it was bouncing around streaming services (when Disney Plus Star launched they had 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, now all they have is weeks), and it was on disc but out of print. This is the start of Sony owning it so whoever has first run Sony deals (I believe Netflix in US and Crave in Canada) will probably be getting 28 Days Later in a few months but right now can finally buy on Digital tomorrow. Disc release is definitely coming again as well

 

I definitely wanna rewatch Days and Weeks before I see Years

 

28 Days Later premiered before the Walking Dead comic, but for all I know that opening preceded both of them.

 

28 Days Later came out a year before the Walking Dead comic book. So WD definitely has the ripoff

 

I haven't seen Weeks, but Days was good. I remember being pretty disturbed by the image / thought of zombies that could run. That one scene where people are hiding in a house at night and you see a running zombie outside through a window very briefly when lightning flashes... a second later it comes crashing through the window. Yikes.

 

So is the best quality of 28 Days Later like 480p or is it at least 720 ahaha

 

Honestly I think it's internally like 480p from the DV camera of the era.

 

Ah right slightly higher for PAL. But not HD no.

 

Yeah I get annoyed about that too. Why isn't it the one that comes first?!?

 

I thought measuring by vertical resolution was meant to account for different aspect ratios.