It was in the street outside, it was coming through your windows. “Right from the beginning you knew this was different, because it was happening in small villages, market towns. She puts the pieces of the disaster together for him: After a couple of nightmarish encounters with the infected, he joins forces with a fellow survivor, the hard-edged Selena (Naomie Harris). Immediately obvious in his bright green hospital gown, Jim is the only moving object in the frame as he wanders past deserted London landmarks - the very definition of Freud’s Uncanny (i.e. A deserted Piccadilly Circus in 28 Days Later (2002) When he ventures into the outside world he finds everything has changed. Now, he has to put together the pieces of what might have happened. He slept through the devastation, too inert to register as a threat. Protagonist Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes from his coma, abandoned in a silent hospital. They don’t have any special skills and have only survived this long because of lucky accidents. The story centres on a group of ordinary people who’ve managed to remain uninfected – a bike courier, a taxi driver and his teenage daughter. What would happen if the entire population of the UK was ravaged by a highly infectious virus? What sacrifices must the handful of survivors make in order to stay alive? 28 Days Later is based on a deceptively simple What if? premise, which straddles the line between horror and science fiction. Garland’s screenplay for 28 Days Later is much darker than The Beach and indicates the dark turn he would take into speculative fiction over the coming decade. Danny Boyle directed the 2000 movie adaptation of The Beach (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) and wanted to collaborate with Garland again, this time on an original idea. In the early 2000s, Alex Garland was best known as the author of The Beach, the ‘gap year thriller’ that captured the slacker ethos (and the self-indulgent flaws) of Generation X. Zombies – fast, slow, friendly, vicious – would then go on to dominate horror movies and television shows for many years to come. Nonetheless, 28 Days Later revitalized the zombie genre with a flashy, 21st century spin. They’re also fast, an upgrade on the stiff-legged stumblers of Romero’s Night/Dawn/Day. Technically they aren’t, as they are not dead, just locked by a virus into a state of extreme rage, hellbent on the destruction of those around them. Debate still swirls about whether or not the zombies really count as zombies. This article was originally published on March 18th, 2016, and has been updated.28 Days Later is a low budget, digitally shot entry into the zombie apocalypse sub-genre. This is great for anyone who uses the Echo frequently. If you enable the Valossa Movie Finder skill, you’ll be able to ask Alexa your movie-related questions to better find your answers. Also, you can also search with your Amazon Alexa device. There are also “director based matches”, “general matches” and “traditional search” you can opt for to better narrow down your guesses. For example, if you type in A River into the search bar, you’ll get A River Runs Through It, Where the River Runs Black, All The Rivers Run, and more options. For those who remember a handful of words from the title, the “title based matches” are great. If you just remember actors, you can search “actor based matches”. You can even get more granular with your searching as you progress. Can you stump it? Different ways of searching to name that movie you’re thinking of It also just so happens to be an impressive showcase for Valossa’s tech. How to find the name of a movie by a scene?Īnother awesome feature is you can even describe elements of a specific scene and the results are always on point.
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