![]() Single 28 WEEKS LATER Tickets $10.50 advance HERE | $12.50 at the door Why not make it a 28 Days Double Bill and see both films for one sweet price?ĭouble Bill Tickets $15 advance HERE | $17 at the door Single Film 28 DAYS LATER Tickets $10.50 advance HERE |$12.50 at the door “Under Fresnadillo’s assured direction, 28 WEEKS LATER blurs the line between genre entertainment and a photojournalist’s shots of the next urban catastrophe.” ( AV Club) With Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, and Harold Perrineau, Jr. Now, just as society struggles to sort through the rubble and rebuild London from the ground up, the virus that nearly destroyed a nation strikes back with a vengeance. The joy of later seeing his son Andy ( Mackintosh Muggleton) and daughter Tammy ( Imogen Poots) as re-population efforts get underway in London is short-lived, however, when an innocent bid to reconnect with the past sets into motion a tragic series of events. Their kids well out of harm’s way at a remote boarding school, Don and Alice’s outlook for the future is decidedly bright until all hell breaks loose in the country and Don just barely manages to escape the clutches of the infected. During the initial outbreak, Don Harris ( Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice ( Catherine McCormack) sat holed up with a small band of survivors in a remote farmhouse. ![]() As the reconstruction process gets underway and the first wave of refugees return to British shores, a family separated by the devastation is happily reunited. military has declared victory in the war against the rapidly spreading infection. Six months has passed since the rage virus caused British residents to indiscriminately murder and destroy everything in their paths, and now the U.S. In the chilling sequel to Danny Boyle‘s 28 DAYS LATER, the devastating rage virus that annihilated the British Isles mysteriously resurfaces in Goya Award-winning director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo‘s 28 WEEKS LATER. So many zombies, in fact, that it’s a 28 DAYS / WEEKS Double feature! We’re kicking things off with Danny Boyle‘s 28 DAYS LATER at 7:45 pm followed by its chilling sequel, 28 WEEKS LATER. So the Rage virus, while perfectly suited in close quarters would likely not travel much farther than a pair of human legs could travel.The Rio Theatre‘s series of spooky offerings continues on Sunday, October 28 with a double bill screening featuring zombies… Lots of zombies. A truly viable pandemic must have a longer incubation period and optimally be airborne or at least infect multiple disparate species. I'll be purchasing the DVD, but probably won't offer to watch it with any of my family and couldn't recommend it as a party movie :) Post Script: If you had ever wondered why the rest of the world was not affected by this virus, consider the geographically isolating nature of the British Isles and the extremely short incubation period of this virus. However, there's a possibility I may be missing some concept that made these events intentional-I hope it's some twist of the virus and isn't just star power. Let's just say that London is a fairly large playground for certain (coincidental?) events to happen (and not just once). There is one facet of the film that I did not really appreciate, but can't really detail without a spoiler warning. ![]() Overall the most powerful element of the film isn't really character based, but rather the theme of a terrible pandemic that, besides a small twist, isn't much changed from the first movie. ![]() Other than a brief, but informative back-story conversation near the beginning, there is almost no down time spent (wasted?) on emerging relationships or overly granular side-stories. Which although short in running time (at just over 1:30) with quite a fast pace, still seemed very much long enough to be perfectly enjoyable, especially for any fan of the genre. Unlike 28 Days, a flashpan start to 28 Weeks Later sets the tone for the entire film. There is very little breathing room, and some of it is more disturbing and far less bridled than you might be expecting, especially if you are used to the character-based 'safety' of most films. Note that if you were able to get away with seeing 28 Days Later as a date movie, you may not pull it off with 28 Weeks. If you haven't seen either film, Boyle's 'infected' are far less like the traditional lumbering Romero zombies, and closer to the Zack Snyder zombies of 2004's Dawn of the Dead. ![]() And although the Rage virus in these two films does not produce an 'undead' zombie, the 'infected' nevertheless present a similarly formidable and threatening antagonist. I'm admittedly a zombie film fan (especially the serious, non A-Team variety). I believe 28 Weeks Later did appreciate as a sequel (with only a couple very minor depreciative concepts), and that was a surprise. ![]()
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