28 years later

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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IT’S BACK BABY! Loved it apart from the barn torture scene which was truly horrible. The opening scene was horrible too but felt more necessary? Definitely loved the appearance of you-know-who (is there even any point as marking that as a spoiler anymore, everyone knows). AMAZING musical number. God I fucking love movies that have unhinged musical numbers out of nowhere.

Really big spoilers and thoughts beneath the image:

  • I guessed from the trailer this movie would be about finding a cure and I WAS RIGHT!!
  • Chi Lewis-Parry is absolutely amazing in this. I’m naming him before any of the bigger actors because I think he deserves it, he carried like a third of the movie and had the most difficult job AND had to act while naked, I hope he gets a lot more attention after this.
  • The “moon” scene was my favourite, god I love monster-becomes-human narratives so much
  • DOCTOR KELSON THE CHARACTER THAT YOU ARE. Already my favourite fictional character of the year. I’m so sad he died.
  • Oh thank god they finally remembered that inhaling even a drop of zombie blood will infect you too!
  • So what happened to Selena? She’s probably dead isn’t she :(
  • I spent a lot of the movie wondering if ‘howzat’ was something the real Jimmy Savile used to say, but I don’t want to Google Jimmy Savile. Hope you’re in hell Jimmy!
  • This movie is very pro-NHS (how can you be anti-NHS??? Oh god never mind) and I’m really glad about it.
  • I’m looking SO forward to the third movie, you can’t imagine. There’s so many things in play now. Samson, the pregnant woman who escaped Jimmy, the notes on the cure hidden in Kelson’s bunker, Spike and Kelly’s journey, Jim and his daughter… I want to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson again too! Oh please let this movie do well enough to get a sequel, I know it probably will but I still worry

28 Years Later

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I first got into 28 Days Later as a wee teenager. I wasn’t 18 yet when I watched it, and yet it was an 18-rated movie, so that was a bit naughty of me. (My parents had very strict rules about movie ratings.) I watched it at a friend’s house who was much more relaxed about that sort of thing.

I loved it so much, and really appreciated its feminist themes. It was THE zombie movie for me.

However, I didn’t think there ever needed to be a sequel, so when I got around to watching 28 Weeks Later I hated it. But YEARS later! The new sequel pulled me in with its amazing trailer:


And I was dying to see it since the moment they started reciting “Boots” like it was a manic war cry. So did it live up to the hype, and I was very hyped? YES IT DID!

Okay, I know this film is divisive. I get it. It’s not for everyone. But I LOVED it. It was completely balls-to-the-wall insane, just how I like my movies. Here are some thoughts in bullet-point form, with SPOILERS:

-kudos to the marketing for making it seem like Ralph Fiennes’ character was a bad guy, only to have him turn out to be an unambiguous (if a little kooky) good guy. He was my favourite character.

-“Boots” made it to the movie as well! The trailer made me obsessed with that poem.

-Alfie Williams is amazing! Between him and Owen Cooper in Adolescence it’s really been a good year for young male British actors coming out of nowhere and blowing everyone away.

-The Alpha chase under the starry sky is an AMAZING sequence.

-I was told Erin Kellyman was in this movie… she is not in this movie. Maybe the sequel? (Which is coming in January!)

Lastly: Absolutely NOTHING can prepare you for the ending of this movie. It had me staring in slack-jawed “did they really go there?!” amusement-horror. I don’t think non-Brits will get the same effect but for Brits of a certain age there’s not enough WTF in the world for that scene.

28 Years Later trailer

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I LOVED the movie 28 Days Later when I saw it as a kid and I still adore it. I sat out 28 Weeks Later because I was so mad they’d made a sequel to a perfect movie. But this really good trailer for the next installment got me back into the franchise.

Set to a chilling arrangement of “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling. Really good use of a poem. (The Guardian has some more, also chilling, info.)

I—’ave—marched—six—weeks in ‘Ell an’ certify

It—is—not—fire—devils, dark, or anything,

But boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again,

An’ there’s no discharge in the war!