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28 Weeks Later (Blu-Ray)

Robert Carlyle (actor), Imogen Poots (actor) and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (director)

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Review

New York Times, 05/11/2007, p.E1-E7, "It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques."

Total Film, 07/01/2007, p.38, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's stylish, disturbing and not without its own ideas....[With] non-stop action..."

Uncut, 10/01/2007, p.132, 4 stars out of 5 -- "Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo handles the set-pieces superbly..."

Ultimate DVD, 08/01/2007, p.92, 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's not only a worthy sequel to the original, but a razor-sharp horror in its own right."

Title Note

Theatrical Release: May 11, 2007

Release Note

Blu-ray Disc Features:

Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, Spanish, French
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes - 1. Deleted Scenes (6; w/ Optional Commentary)
2. Alternate Endings (2; w/ Optional Commentary)
3. Storyboard for Alternate Ending
Audio Commentaries - Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - Director; Enrique Lopez Lavigne - Producer
Behind the Scenes - "Pure Rage: Making of 28 WEEKS LATER"
Featurettes - "The Infected"
Music Videos - Jacknife Lee
Trailers - 1. High Definition Theatrical Trailers
2. Theatrical Teaser
3. Theatrical Trailers
4. "Fox on Blu-Ray: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR"
Text/Photo Galleries:
Slideshows - 1. Running Production Stills (w/ Commentary)
2. Running Polaroids (w/ Introduction)
Storyboards (w/ Animation)

Product Notes

Danny Boyle's surprise 2003 hit, 28 DAYS LATER, gets the sequel treatment here. Few elements from the first film remain--actor Cilian Murphy doesn't return, and Boyle and screenwriter/novelist Alex Garland take producer credits this time out. In their places step director/co-writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (INTACTO) and actor Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING), who bring the original story to its next logical step. The zombies (again referred to as "the infected") from the first film have died out and England is ready for repopulation. The American military are slowly bringing British citizens back to London, where a heavily guarded community is picking up the pieces and trying to return to normal life. Carlyle plays Don, a man who has lost his wife but is reunited with his children, Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and Tammy (Imogen Poots), near the start of Fresnadillo's film. The two kids soon escape from the heavily guarded community, go off searching for their childhood home, and discover that mom might not be quite as dead as they originally thought. Chaos follows, with the sadistic military and the forlorn survivors battling both each other and "the infected."

Fresnadillo apes much of Boyle's style from the original film, shooting in rapidly edited sequences that cause plenty of blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments. A pounding soundtrack helps enliven the scenes with "the infected," and an abundance of swooping aerial shots highlight the desolate London landscape. A few minor sub-plots emerge, Fresnadillo offers sly commentary on the military's trigger-happy tendencies, and the film ends up somewhere in between zombie fare such as George A. Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD and dystopian visions of the future such as Alfonso Cuaron's CHILDREN OF MEN.



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