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movie review - 28 Weeks Later

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a sequel to the horror movie that brought us "fast zombies". It opens with the downfall of a house of survivors during the outbreak. Their lack of cohesion and trust is a big part of their succumbing to the zombies when they come. The scene features what is surely the greatest zombie chase scene in history with the lone survivor trying to out-run a horde of countless madly-pelting monsters. He's just abandoned his wife and child.

We're then taken to the recovery process. Yes, they're trying to repopulate the UK after what had happened a month prior. As sure as day follows night, it all goes to shit very fast and very .. shit. And it's here that a distinctly different film from the original begins. We see that the military knows that the recovery is rushed and incomplete due to the logistical nightmare of cleaning out an entire country full of infectious corpses. We see that the would-be survivors this time are operating with the hope you'd expect from regular folk who were surprised by an out-break. These, instead, are people who were promised a new life in a restored country and the lie has cost them their lives.

Having established its tone, this movie takes us straight to hell.

Recommended.