#38 28 DAYS LATER (2002)
WHERE THE HELL
IS EVERYBODY?
The
opening moments of 28 Days Later are scary in quite the poetic way.
Though movies where angry hordes of crazy zombies crawling the
streets are a way of life in the horror genre, the eerie calm start
of this film works achieves chills with an opposite approach. After
emerging from a coma, Jim finds himself in an empty hospital that's a
shambles. He ventures outside, and nobody's there. In fact, all of
London looks as if everybody disappeared. Some newspapers lying
about suggest an evacuation to avoid some horrible menace took place,
but it's unclear to Jim exactly what the hell happened. He seeks
refuge in a church, and sees a mass of dead bodies. Only something
is moving...
-Robert Berry
rberry@retrocrush.com
