HorroRated archive entry
28 Weeks Later
HorroRated verdict
- Directed by
- Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
- Written by
- Rowan Joffé, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Jesús Olmo, Enrique López Lavigne
- Produced by
- Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Bernard Bellew, Allon Reich, Andrew Macdonald, Enrique López Lavigne, Earle Stuart Callender, Will Cohen, Tim Field, Matt Fox, Carl Grinter, Edwina Hayes, Sarah Hemsley, James Whitlam, Danny Pagan
Why it’s HorroRated
28 Weeks Later opens with one of the best sequences in modern horror and Fresnadillo understood that a sequel to 28 Days Later needed its own perspective rather than just repeating the original. The bureaucratic horror of a failed resettlement gives it something to say. It doesn't top the original but it earns its existence completely.
Synopsis
An American-led NATO force has established a safe zone in London and begun resettlement when a single incident compromises everything. Fresnadillo directs with a different visual grammar than Boyle's original and the opening farmhouse sequence is as effective a piece of horror as anything in the first film. The sequel asks different questions and gets partial answers to all of them.
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Quick facts
- Release date
- April 26, 2007
- Runtime
- 1 hour 39 mins
- Country
- United Kingdom, Spain, United States of America
- Language
- English
- Content rating
- R
- Entry type
- Movie
