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** If the sequel is any indication, it's because they're bleeding. Which is just as freaky.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: You know maybe instead of waxing poetically about the significance of your scientific research you could just say the chimps are infected with highly infectious and lethal virus.
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* ViralTransformation: Unlike more traditional zombie movies, the "zombies" in these films are living humans that have been infected with the Rage virus.
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[[TitleConfusion Do not confuse]] this film with ''[[Film/TwentyEightDays 28 Days]]'', where an alcoholic SandraBullock dries out. That film also features no zombies (unless you count Sandra Bullock's film career).
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[[TitleConfusion Do not confuse]] this film with ''[[Film/TwentyEightDays 28 Days]]'', where an alcoholic SandraBullock dries out. That film also features no zombies (unless you count Sandra Bullock's film career).
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* RavensAndCrows: A crow pecking at the corpse of a Rage victim has unfortunate consequences for Frank.
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* TheLastManHeardAKnock: The audience and Jim begin the movie unsure if anyone is alive except Jim. Inevitably, he runs into other survivors.
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* FauxSymbolism: Jim's most harrowing moment of despair is when he dreams he's been abandoned.
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* FauxSymbolism: Jim's most harrowing moment of despair is when he dreams he's been abandoned.AFatherToHisMen: Major West.
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''28 Days Later'' is a 2002 horror film. A literal {{hate plague}} begins taking over Britain after animal rights activists set loose an Infected chimp in a lab at Cambridge University. The [[HatePlague Rage virus]] is a virus meant to neutralise violent impulses GoneHorriblyWrong - it has the ''exact'' opposite effect. The chimp starts to excarnify its would-be rescuers. Cue the cut-away.
Jim (CillianMurphy) wakes from a coma twenty eight days after the outbreak. He wakes naked in a totally deserted hospital, in the middle of an eerily abandoned London. He's got a scarred-over head wound, an impressive growth of facial hair and no idea of what's going on. Our protagonist wanders around the city, plastic bag of Pepsi cans in hand, while suspenseful music plays. He then meets some [[ZombieGait non-shambling]], [[HatePlague angry-arse]] Infected pseudo-zombies. Soon after he teams up with fellow survivors and kicks some ass in search of the escape and cure promised by the radio broadcasts from a distant barricade.
The promised land is far from what it seems, and the scale of the infection has yet to be realised.
Survivor Selena (Naomie Harris) is a realist, considering survival the only option and Jim's naiveté a hindrance. Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and Hannah, father and daughter, see things less bleakly and suffer for it.
The premise is played for drama. The films avoids using the word [[NotUsingTheZedWord 'zombie']] and avoids several common zombie tropes. The Infected are fast-moving, agile and mindlessly violent. But they are not hungry for brains. The infection itself is devastating, toppling society and causing an apocalypse due to the ease of transmission and the panic. Generally pigeonholed as a zombie movie, nevertheless. The film did fairly well at the box office and has spawned several comics exploring the lacuna of time in between the initial outbreak of infection and the film. It has a sequel, ''TwentyEightWeeksLater''.
Not to be [[TitleConfusion confused]] with ''[[Film/TwentyEightDays 28 Days]]'' where an alcoholic SandraBullock dries out. And is killed by zombies. Or not.
Jim (CillianMurphy) wakes from a coma twenty eight days after the outbreak. He wakes naked in a totally deserted hospital, in the middle of an eerily abandoned London. He's got a scarred-over head wound, an impressive growth of facial hair and no idea of what's going on. Our protagonist wanders around the city, plastic bag of Pepsi cans in hand, while suspenseful music plays. He then meets some [[ZombieGait non-shambling]], [[HatePlague angry-arse]] Infected pseudo-zombies. Soon after he teams up with fellow survivors and kicks some ass in search of the escape and cure promised by the radio broadcasts from a distant barricade.
The promised land is far from what it seems, and the scale of the infection has yet to be realised.
Survivor Selena (Naomie Harris) is a realist, considering survival the only option and Jim's naiveté a hindrance. Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and Hannah, father and daughter, see things less bleakly and suffer for it.
The premise is played for drama. The films avoids using the word [[NotUsingTheZedWord 'zombie']] and avoids several common zombie tropes. The Infected are fast-moving, agile and mindlessly violent. But they are not hungry for brains. The infection itself is devastating, toppling society and causing an apocalypse due to the ease of transmission and the panic. Generally pigeonholed as a zombie movie, nevertheless. The film did fairly well at the box office and has spawned several comics exploring the lacuna of time in between the initial outbreak of infection and the film. It has a sequel, ''TwentyEightWeeksLater''.
Not to be [[TitleConfusion confused]] with ''[[Film/TwentyEightDays 28 Days]]'' where an alcoholic SandraBullock dries out. And is killed by zombies. Or not.
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* TooDumbToLive: Let's start with the scientists who decided to use chimpanzees, which are incredibly strong and can get pretty damn aggressive already, as guinea pigs for the Rage virus. Then the animal rights activists who release said infected chimpanzees ''after being warned that they're contagious.'' Additionally said scientists use a facility that doesn't even incorporate the most basic of quarantine procedures.
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* TooDumbToLive: Let's start with the scientists who decided to use chimpanzees, which are incredibly strong and can get pretty damn aggressive already, as guinea pigs for the Rage virus. Then the animal rights activists who release said infected chimpanzees ''after being warned that they're contagious.'' Additionally said scientists use a facility that doesn't even incorporate the most basic of quarantine procedures.[[hottip:*:(And apparently, decent security systems)]]
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** One of the soldiers talks about his favorite joke from ''{{The Simpsons}}'', which was then mentioned in the commentary for that episode (Treehouse of Horror III) by Al Jean. Though Jean also {{Did Not Do The Research}}; he calls the movie "28 Days" and thinks it was about vampires.
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The premise is played for drama. The films avoids using the word [[NotUsingTheZedWord 'zombie']] and avoids several common zombie tropes. The Infected are fast-moving, agile and mindlessly violent. But they are not hungry for brains. The infection itself is devastating, toppling society and causing an apocalypse due to the ease of transmission and the panic. Generally pigeonholed as a zombie movie, nevertheless. The film did fairly well at the box office and has spawned several comics exploring the lacuna of time in between the initial outbreak of infection and the film. It has a sequel, ''TwentyEightWeeksLater'', and another film in the works for 2011.
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The premise is played for drama. The films avoids using the word [[NotUsingTheZedWord 'zombie']] and avoids several common zombie tropes. The Infected are fast-moving, agile and mindlessly violent. But they are not hungry for brains. The infection itself is devastating, toppling society and causing an apocalypse due to the ease of transmission and the panic. Generally pigeonholed as a zombie movie, nevertheless. The film did fairly well at the box office and has spawned several comics exploring the lacuna of time in between the initial outbreak of infection and the film. It has a sequel, ''TwentyEightWeeksLater'', and another film in the works for 2011.
''TwentyEightWeeksLater''.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Jim]] does this to one of the soldiers.
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Not to be [[TitleConfusion confused]] with ''28 Days'' where an alcoholic SandraBullock dries out. And is killed by zombies. Or not.
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Not to be [[TitleConfusion confused]] with ''28 Days'' ''[[Film/TwentyEightDays 28 Days]]'' where an alcoholic SandraBullock dries out. And is killed by zombies. Or not.
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''28 Days Later'' is a 2002 horror film. A literal {{hate plague}} begins taking over Britain after animal rights activists set loose an Infected chimp in a lab at Cambridge University. The [[HatePlague Rage virus]] is a virus meant to neutralise violent impulses GoneHorriblyWrong. It has the opposite effect. The chimp starts to excarnify its would-be rescuers. Cue the cut-away.
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''28 Days Later'' is a 2002 horror film. A literal {{hate plague}} begins taking over Britain after animal rights activists set loose an Infected chimp in a lab at Cambridge University. The [[HatePlague Rage virus]] is a virus meant to neutralise violent impulses GoneHorriblyWrong. It GoneHorriblyWrong - it has the ''exact'' opposite effect. The chimp starts to excarnify its would-be rescuers. Cue the cut-away.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Perhaps a bit of a stretch, but Jim's story begins with him alone, frightened, and confused, desperately wandering abandoned London, screaming "HELLO!" over and over and receiving no answer. It ends with [[spoiler: him and his loved ones in a secure countryside home, creating a "HELLO" message together that is most assuredly answered.]]
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--> "This is a really '''shit''' idea. And you know how I know? because it's a ''really obviously '''shit''' idea." Possibly the best line in the whole movie.
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** Naomi Harris explained that her and Danny Boyle came up with a backstory that Selena had to kill her whole family in one afternoon including younger siblings to explain her harsh outlook on life.
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** Naomi Harris explained that her and Danny Boyle came up with a backstory that Selena had to kill her whole family in one afternoon afternoon, including her younger siblings siblings, to explain her harsh outlook on life.
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Slash-spacing is not necessary when one could simply use asterisks. - NE
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* CrazySurvivalist: Although Selena isn't exactly crazy (yet), she's incredibly ruthless and will leave anyone behind if they can't catch up, distrusts others, and openly mocks any plans for salvation. "Staying alive is as good as it gets." She warms up once she's spent some time with the others, though.\\
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* CrazySurvivalist: Although Selena isn't exactly crazy (yet), she's incredibly ruthless and will leave anyone behind if they can't catch up, distrusts others, and openly mocks any plans for salvation. "Staying alive is as good as it gets." She warms up once she's spent some time with the others, though.\\
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** Naomi Harris explained that her and Danny Boyle came up with a backstory that Selena had to kill her whole family in one afternoon including younger siblings to explain her harsh outlook on life.
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* AbandonedHospital: Where Jim wakes up. [[spoiler:He winds up in an abandoned hospital again after being shot during the climax]].
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* AbandonedHospital: Where AbandonedHospitalAwakening: Jim wakes up.up in an AbandonedHospital the eponymous twenty-eight days after the ZombieApocalypse begins. [[spoiler:He winds up in an abandoned hospital again after being shot during the climax]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The ending as released. [[spoiler:Jim survives, all the main characters survive the mansion assault at the end, the infected die off from starvation, and a passing jet sees their distress message laid out in the grass and radios in a rescue]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The ending as released. [[spoiler:Jim survives, all the main characters survive the mansion assault at the end, the infected begin to die off from starvation, and a passing jet sees their distress message laid out in the grass and radios in a rescue]].
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* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The Infected.
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* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The Infected.Infected are a poster-child for this trope, and in many ways ''28 Days Later'' started the wave of interest in this new "zombie" (really, Crazies). Anything that will kill a human can kill them, i.e. riddling their chest with bullets that are *not* expertly aimed. They've got a strong "mind-over-matter" adrenaline rush, though, so don't wait for them to get right on top of you. They're not smart enough to use weapons, and aren't explicitly trying to "eat" people (though they do animalistically bite people to attack). The real danger is that they'll easily infect you from close contact, what with all of their mucous membranes disintegrating into a bloody mess and puking up torrents of blood with little or no provocation.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job breaking out those lab monkeys.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to the poor goldfish, last seen in Frank and Hannah's flat? Presumably something bad.
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** All the survivors. Frank was just a simple taxi driver, and in his first appearance, is wearing badass riot gear and beats several infected to death.
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* NobleShoplifter: After gamboling through a deserted greengrocer's, the heroes leave behind a credit card.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Rage virus turns the infected's eyes red.
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** Also to Jim, for lighting a candle and thus alerting the zombies where he and the others were hiding.
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Survivor Selena (Naomie Harris [[hottip:*:Of ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' fame.]]) Harris) is a realist, considering survival the only option and Jim's naiveté a hindrance. Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and Hannah, father and daughter, see things less bleakly and suffer for it.
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* OfficerAndAGentleman: Played with in Major West, who [[spoiler:uses it to sucker in the women as sex toys for his men to keep up morale]].
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** Doubles as ExactWords: the radio message in the film says the militia has [[spoiler: "the answer to infection." But he never says that the "answer" is raping healthy women.]]
** Doubles as ExactWords: the radio message in the film says the militia has [[spoiler: "the answer to infection." But he never says that the "answer" is raping healthy women.]]
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