28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)

A virus that locks those infected into a permanent state of killing rage is accidentally released from a British research facility. Carried by animals and humans, the virus is impossible to contain and supposedly spreads across the entire planet. Twenty-eight days later, a small group of survivors are trapped in London, caught in a desperate struggle to protect them from the infected.

We can see that 28 days later is clearly a horror through its links to the codes and conventions of the horror genre. Things such as sound, editing, mise-en-scene (props, makeup and facial expressions) are what have been used in order to communicate to the audience that this films belongs to the horror genre. Mainly to me the make-up and facial expressions of the zombies are what communicate to the audience that this film belongs in the horror genre. Also even sound to me once again indicates to the audience just how this films intention is to scare the audience. The sound is used is music that is intentionally made to build tension and to create suspense amongst the audience.

In my opinion what is horrific about this film, is the zombies themselves and the blood and gore used throughout the film. These are what is horrific about the film as the make the audience recluse in the sight of them and makes the audience feel awkward with how much blood and gore and makes the audience scared by the way the zombies actions and make up tend are deliberately done in a way to make the audience frightened. Also when being the audience when watching this film, it is scary in the thought that there is no one around in London and where this film has been linked to reality, it is frightening in the fact that we don’t know what why there is no one around at first and compared to the London that we see every day, in the film it is completely empty and is very scary to the audience as when it is that empty, you can’t help but think that something may jump out and scare you.



When looking at the audience reviews you can see that this film was taken well by the audience as the opinions of the film are very good and make comments such as 'A tough, smart, ingenious movie' and there are other good comments used such as 'a first-rate zombie movie' and other things such as 'This is an excellent portrayal of people who are surviving, and what people can be driven to' . Also many people have commented smart things aboutt he film that make us see just what this film is 'realistic example of what the world would be if there was a zombie apocalypse'. another thing that someone has reviewed about this film is they have found an interesting hidden meaning within this film that is 'The disturbing truth of how men react to destruction and death with violence and anger. Anger, an infectious disease that has been spreading throughout mankind for centuries'. there are a few bad comments scattered amongst the many good reviews that you see such as this one 'Its nowhere near as great as dawn of the dead which this movie seems to resemble only it has less zombies and a different ending'. however the rest of the reviews are very good and there are only a few reviews that can be seen as bad.

What makes this film distinctivly British is the fact that it is set in the capital of England (London) and uses typically British features in order to shown just how British themed this film is. The typical British feautures would be the London setting used, the British army soldiers used within the film and the British actors used for this film. The fact the film is set in London makes the film british as this is the captial of England and is set in this place throughout the whole film. The British army also show this is a British film as it shows the little group of soldiers attempting to survive the waves of attacks that are coming at them and this is ironic that all of the zombies have taken over the even the birtish army and that the only survivors have been drven mad being that alone away from civilisation and even they are going more mental than the zombies who try to break their defence. Finally there have been plenty of British actors used to communicate to the audience that this is a British film.

In my opinion, these are some of the vital scenes within the film, i have shown them within these pictures;