was this and Cabin recorded whilst watching Blu-Rays or DVDs?

what would the point of getting 28 days later on Blu Ray be?  It was shot on DV video for crying out loud!

Apparently the Blu-Ray for 28 Days looks like garbage for exactly that reason.

An earthquake in LA? What would make it horror? The traffic?

oh. right. after a few hours, they would eat trey.

You guys couldn't think of any more "guy sleeps through the apocalypse" stories. Day of the Triffids comes to mind, with a guy in the hospital with his eyes bandaged who wakes up to find the rest of the world blind. The 80's movie Night of the Comet has a similar plot, with only those who slept instead of going out to look at the sky surviving. I'll even toss in the Twilight Zone episode where the guy goes into the bank vault to read, and ends up being the only survivor of World War III. Actually, in a way the H.G. Wells story The Time Machine has a similar plot, except the guy jumps ahead in time to after the bad stuff instead of sleeping through it.

Well, one year

Tangent because I'm all about the useless facts as evident above- I remember Renner from an episode of Angel where he played a pretty cool bad guy. Not long after he was in S.W.A.T which was when I started saying 'hey, it's that guy'.  Actually, I need to give 28 Weeks Later a re-watch too, may do that for Halloween week

Last edited by Jimmy B (2012-10-23 19:39:14)

Those deserted London scenes were great. The equivalent scenes in I am legend suffered from a bit too much obvious CG work. Invid's right - The Day of the Triffids (the 1980s BBC version) starts exactly the same way with a bloke waking up in hospital and wandering through London.
You guys didn't mention the score - quite an iconic theme.
For a gritty post-apocalyptic movie without the zombies/vampires/ghouls of Omega Man, Walking Dead, etc, I recommend The Road with Viggo Mortensen.  The bleakness is jaw-dropping.

Oh yeah, David Schneider was in that opening scene, wasn't he?

And I agree, it is always odd seeing him in a movie, especially Mission Impossible.

I know I'm in the minority, but I don't find the "going to the mansion" part of the movie to be jarring.  I love the piss out of this movie.

Supernatural zombies, infected zombies, comedy zombies, zoombies. You guys mentioned gang rape zombies. Wonder how long before we see that, as every drop is milked from this (un)dead genre. The MPAA may not like it, because being eaten alive is fine, but rape is totally unacceptable.

I haven't seen this in years, but I have a sense that the building in question is the Palace of Westminster (one of the Houses of Parliament), not Number 10 Downing Street (the Prime Minister's residence).