The original 28 Days Later is one of my favourite films of all time. I enjoyed 28 Weeks Later a lot too, but obviously nowhere near as good as the sequel (although that opening sequence is 12/10).

 

The trailer dropped today and is trending and causing a huge social media buzz.

 

 

First part of a new trilogy with original duo behind the project. Obviously the original was Cillian Murphy's breakout role and the internet is losing their shiz at him appearing as a zombie, although I think it's clever marketing as no way they'd spoil that and I think he's meant to be the main character in the final film.

This looks SOOOO good and I am so HYPED for it.

 

Gives me peak 'The Walking Dead' vibes and I'm here for that! I need to rewatch the other 2 but I remember really loving the first and enjoying the 2nd.

Holy shit, the trailer is incredible.

There’s no way I could watch that at the cinema lol!

Review embargoed and drops with 100% on RT so far!

SO hyped to see this tomorrow. I assumed it'd have great reviews.

Looks like horror could be in for it's best year (at least critically) possibly ever?

Again I’d be jumping about to much for a cinema viewing lol. Class that Cillan has a cameo in it at least to link the films.

Liked the second film but didn’t love it, was a bit ott with zombies with lesser story line

Apparently, they’re doing a sequel next year which Cillian Murphy will be returning

19 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Apparently, they’re doing a sequel next year which Cillian Murphy will be returning

The sequel comes out in January 2026 and there's a third one in the works (although not written yet or secured funding yet). From what Danny Boyle has teasted, Cilliam is back in the 2nd film at the end and plays a lead role in the third. Not too sure how much I believe him though.

Assume it’s a prequel then?

I'm very much in the minority unfortunately. The first half is very much what I wanted/expected from it, but then it just goes into silly territory about half way through and becomes a bit of a mess tonally. Jodie Comer absolutely shines in it though (hardly surprising). She's great!

But unfortunately, it didn't do anything for me on the whole. I'm gutted I didn't connect as much with it as I would have liked to.

3 hours ago, Tafty said:

I'm very much in the minority unfortunately. The first half is very much what I wanted/expected from it, but then it just goes into silly territory about half way through and becomes a bit of a mess tonally. Jodie Comer absolutely shines in it though (hardly surprising). She's great!

But unfortunately, it didn't do anything for me on the whole. I'm gutted I didn't connect as much with it as I would have liked to.

Will see over the next week but I’m hearing the second half is decisive! I guess it’s all a set up, but I feel the 1st film was also kind of like this as well. I’ve also heard the ending is abrupt!

I’m still really excited to see it. Think it makes sense why Sony have not financed a 3rd film yet, but suspect it will get the green light.

I absolutely loved it. I thought it was brilliant throughout, obviously the first half of the film is much like 28 Days Later and then it does shift. There were some minor plot points which I thought were bizarre and couldn't understand why they didn't do certain things, but then obviously I know why as there are two more films :D Spike was such a good character and this film felt like setting him up. The ending did feel a bit cheap and out of place.

I've rewatched 28 Days and 28 Weeks this weekend in anticipation of seeing this in the cinemas next weekend. Insanely hyped for it - the first two instalments remain incredible (awful acting from some of the cast aside).

The shots of abandoned London in the early parts of 28 Days are some of my favourite cinema moments ever. Chilling, especially because it was done in real time because the film lacked a big budget to actually close off parts of the city.

Saw this today and really enjoyed it. I didn't expect it to take the tonal direction it did, but I thought it worked well as a bit of a contrast to the brutality of the evil of man in the first two films, without spoiling anything, this one brought to mind the Wizard of Oz most closely! Of course, there was a lot of great action too, I really liked the train encounter with the infected and the corresponding images between the modern day cult and ancient roman images was well done. There was a hell of a lot of commentary they could've, ahem, sunk their teeth into in a post-Brexit/Covid Britain, but I like that they kept it nuanced.

The ending was certainly something, I suppose we'll have to see how the sequel turns out before we can say how effective it was (the person being evoked is certainly a choice and I'm really wondering how they'll frame that, surely for sinister reasons, I wanna say a bit more but I don't know how to use spoilers here x)

The camera work remains really great and love the iPhone stands they used to make the quick cuts, still very distinctive. Amazing soundtrack from Young Fathers too and was great to hear that classic East Hastings soundtrack from Godspeed You Black Emperor! <3