[Lucky]

A pair of highly successful modern indie horrors lock up here. Do we get the British spin on zombies and humanity's attempts to cope or the internet driven look at the terror of isolation and confusion and what waits for you in the dark?


(11) 28 Days Later





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(22) Blair Witch Project[/size]




Poll closes Wed at 8 PM EST.

[Lori]

Fuck Blair Witch. 28 Days Later needs to win this by a landslide.

[Stu]

28 Days Later, even though Danny Boyle tries to convince people that it's not a zombie film at all...

[Lucky]

He does? That's fucking stupid. He realizes that Romero was doing social commentary too, right? And yet that's still a zombie flick. Or is he like "no, they're not zombies they're just sick"?

28 Days Later was going really strong. Then the Army started raping people and it just lost itself. I dunno. Major disappointment. Both in the hype it got and how the first 45 minutes set up the last 30. Left me very cold. Still, curious to see 28 Weeks Later.

Blair Witch was fucking terrifying. I love you Lori but I don't see what you see here. 28 Days was a decent zombie flick but nothing groundbreaking. It had been done before. Blair Witch was new, unique, and fucking terrifying that first time in a dark room with noone making a sound.

[Lori]

The only thing Blair Witch did was make me sick to my stomach. Literally. I got motion sickness trying to watch it in the theater.
And I thought 28 Days was incredibly groundbreaking. They weren't technically zombies, they were infected with rage, which made it much more believable. There are several truly noteable scenes, in the church, in the tunnel, the drop of blood in the eye. Blair Witch had some girl leaking snot. Rock.

[Stu]

luckylopez said:

He does? That's fucking stupid. He realizes that Romero was doing social commentary too, right? And yet that's still a zombie flick. Or is he like "no, they're not zombies they're just sick"?

That's exactly it. He says they aren't zombies, they're just "the infected". Sure, they may run fast, but I'd say travelling in groups that don't attack each other and instead kill and eat non-infected makes them zombie enough for it to be a zombie film.

[Lucky]

That's bull. Tons of zombie films do infection. Dawn of the Dead remake and Resident Evil just in recent memory. And Romero's zombies killed and infected you with their bite. Return zombies. And the running thing has always been bull. Almost every zombie film made in the last 10 years had them running and the Return movies did 20 years ago. Complete bullshit to argue they're not zombies. Nuh uh.

Return of the Living Dead = biological weapon turns people into zombies
Resident Evil = biological weapon turns people into zombies
28 Days Later = biological weapon turns people into zombies

Sorry. And Night and Dawn simply never explained what turned the people into zombies. It could have easily been a disease as it was spread through infection.

The tunnel scene had been done before. Sorry. It was basic and logical. Good, but nothing unique. I can't remember the church scene. And Blair Witch had that terrifying final chase when whatsherface goes running after whatshisface and finally finds him standing in the corner. Fucking freaked me out.

[Lori]

Yeah, but you just named the one and only good part in that entire movie. Yep, him standing in the corner freaked me out too, but that was the only thing that did.

[salmonjunkie]

It freaked me out too, Lucky, and I do remember not being so hot about the 2nd half of 28 Days Later as well.

Blair Witch was scary but it did give me motion sickness though. 28 Days did not. I liked them both, for whatever reason I did.

[Stu]

luckylopez said:

Sorry. And Night and Dawn simply never explained what turned the people into zombies. It could have easily been a disease as it was spread through infection.

Actually, in Night, it was implied, but not confirmed that radiation from a crashed satellite probe was responsible for the reanimation.

[Chris Eco]

Lucky, I don't know if 28 Weeks Later is worth your time. The extended scene trailer online looked AWESOME, but I heard it was horrible compared to the original, and apparently you didn't think that one was so great.

And is anyone else blocked out of voting on these polls besides me?

[National Champion Chris Cole]

There was an error in the seeding. Lucky is redoing all polls since the matchups have changed.

[Lucky]

stu said:

luckylopez said:

Sorry. And Night and Dawn simply never explained what turned the people into zombies. It could have easily been a disease as it was spread through infection.

Actually, in Night, it was implied, but not confirmed that radiation from a crashed satellite probe was responsible for the reanimation.

I meant to comment on this before and then I had to redo the brackets and polls and I got sucked up in the debate in the other 28 Days thread. You're right, it was suggested that radiation from a satellite caused it. But it was just brought up as media speculation. Romero's been quoted as saying he didn't want to give any explanation and that ambiguity was a compromise with his partner who felt that people were stupid and needed an answer. But Romero always wanted it to be a deep unexplained thing. This actually disqualifies my bringing Night up in this conversation but Romero wanted there to be "something gone horrible wrong" and all dead were reanimated. Not an epidemic.

That being said, the Dawn remake, Resident Evil, Return of the Living Dead, and countless others have gone the epidemic/spread disease route. It just wasn't Romero's thing.