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- 28 WEEKS LATER -

Released in 2007 under the Science Fiction/Horror Genre. 28 Weeks Later is a higher budget, post apocalyptic sequel to the International film success of 28 Days Later which was released in 2002. 28 Weeks Later picks up where the last story left off. Though not a direct sequel, 28 Weeks features a different set of people, in similar circumstance. Director Danny Boyle was unable to direct 28 Weeks, due to other work commitments, but became Executive Producer on this film, and he hired Juan Carlos Fresnadillo as Director, after seeing his work on the 2001 film 'Intacto'. This would be Juan's first time directing an English language film. Boyle did keep in touch though by becoming 2nd unit Director.

There is also an entirely new cast on 28 Weeks Later, and plans have been made to create a third chapter, and make this film francise into a Trilogy, with 28 Months Later, which Boyle would direct, and which is hopefully due to be released in 2009, with Russia set as the backdrop. ~

-Synopsis-

The film opens to the striking of a match. The house is in darkness, save for a few candles. The scene is a cottage somewhere in the country. The mood is subdued, and serious, and a husband and wife are preparing a dinner of tinned tomatoes in the kitchen. They appear to be getting low on rations, and the wife mentions "We are onto chick peas next". Which puts into the mind that they have been 'holed up' here for quite some time. The setting is bleak, and the atmosphere has an underlying sense of real fear about it. There are three other people in the house, and these people are the only survivors of the 'Rage' virus which has wiped out the population of Great Britain six months previously. They go about the making of dinner, quietly, and there is a feeling in the way the scene is set, and portrayed, of 'The last supper'. -

The musical score is sombre, even rhythmed and repetitive, having the same impact as the Jaws theme, giving a sense of foreboding, and impending danger to the proceedings. The house is still, quiet, people are afraid to speak, except for essential statements. It is grim, stark and frightening.

As the music mounts in volume, and pace, the quietness is broken by the sound of a child screaming outside their door. The cameras jerk into action, as they spin and shake, portraying the ensuing panic, and terror. The music swells, and confusion , and chaos break out within the house. Should they open the door? Is it really a child outside? Or is it a trick?

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