28 Days Later: Review By Jakn

The problems with most of the zombie/horror movies these days is that they hardly bring any scares, the plots to the story are sometimes predictable, and the characters explain too much about how a zombie disease began, but this zombie/horror movie doesn't have any of those problems at all! '28 Days Later' is a zombie movie that's actually scary not just visually, but also with its smart storytelling that gets scarier as the film moves forward. The smartest and scariest thing about '28 Days Later' is the storytelling that's unlike any other storytelling that a zombie movie ever had! The story is almost simply honest showing what reality would be like in the zombie world, but even from how inventive and clever the story is, not everybody would like '28 Days Later' from its storytelling.

A SPOILER ALERT: It might offend women when the story develops into the horrors of sex slavery after the first hour and thirty minutes, but that's the scariest part about in the story as well and this film doesn't involve any abuse or graphic violence towards women. Be thankful for that.

I'll say once more! May offend women with its storytelling, but '28 Days Later' certainly has terrifying, clever, and original storytelling for a zombie movie. Time passes in 28 days after an unusual virus attack that has extended in the UK from idiots releasing raged diseased chimpanzees going dangerously bananas. A normal man named Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a hospital and takes a walk in town for a day noticing very extremely odd things in that day, but not too extremely odd until he goes inside a church.

After being chased by the zombies from the church he meets a female survivor named Selena (Naomie Harris) who explains everything that happened in the world to Jim. Jim and Selena run into a couple of other survivors that are like a family Mr. Bridges and his daughter. Later on out of the four survivors life is lost they are rescued by people in gas masks taken to a large castle-like building. At least they think they're rescued, but later the trio finds out that they came to the WRONG place at the WRONG time.

Other than the story being the scariest part of the film, there are other things in this zombie film that are also scary that you won't find in this film that most zombie movies ever had. Sometimes when the character encounter with zombies, it sometimes looks like the zombies have bitten one of the characters. After each encounter the film starts bringing you suspense and counting down seconds making you think that this character is going to turn into a zombie and start killing, but it makes it look like characters got bitten. So the film messes with your mind bringing the suspense that other zombie movies should have.

Plus the make-up designing on the zombies are incredibility creepy to look at. Right when you see these zombies on screen they'll send chills down your spine right away and that's another thing that makes this film terrifying are the zombies looks. I'd have to say the most terrifying scene with a zombie that as goo make-up designing is when an infected child zombie pops out from the ceiling in silence.

Overall '28 Days Later' is the best zombie movie I've seen by far.