28 Weeks Later (2007)
Written: Rowan Joffe, Jesus Olmo, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Directed by: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Fox Atomic
Rating: 7.8 of 10

Zombies, violence, and blood! Oh, my! Ask and you shall receive. The sequel to the 2002 horror film, 28 Days Later, not only surpasses its predecessor, but rises above the preconceived notion of just another zombie flick. This movie begins with sporadic frightening scenes and builds the momentum to non-stop blood, violence, and terror.

Spanish director, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, picks up where original director, Danny Boyle, left off and does a complete 180 on the horror scale. The movie begins on a quiet farm in London, where the infected have yet to attack. As the audience expects, the infected soon get wind of the few humans hiding on the farm and all hell breaks loose. The infected soon die out due to starvation, and the United States Army steps in to repopulate the country once again. Don, Robert Carlyle, is the caring, yet cowardly father who anxiously awaits the arrival of his two children who are amongst the “lucky” who are shipped to London to help repopulate. He tells of the horrible ordeal he faced and how they lost their mother to the infected. He also explains that they will never able to return to the house they once called their home. The children, being naïve and for some reason not scared of any left over zombies that may be lurking, decide to leave the safe sector and venture out into the desolate city in search of their home. Stupid! As expected, one of the infected survived, the children’s mother, played by Catherine McCormack, and she is brought back to the army base for testing.

A single infected human, hundreds of people, trigger-happy military personnel, and high powered rifles seem to make for an interesting combination. All in all, a human is infected and the army loses all control of the situation, trying to kill everything in sight while trying to fight away some of the most violent, disturbing, infected humans we’ve ever seen. This movie is a gore-filled delight, packed with jump out of your seat scenes, bloody action, and zombies so creepy that you’ll actually start to believe the infection could actually infiltrate the earth.