Let the offal fly!

The new millennium has been pretty thin on the ground for great movies but has seen a fun revival of the zombie genre, the excellent remakes of the Romero cult classics an example of. The Brits came up with the hilarious spoof of from Pegg, Frost and Edgar with the enjoyable Shaun of the Dead and it was left to the great Danny Boyle to match the Yanks for neck biting, limb munching, offal flying chaos with 28 Days Later. Although Edgar's sequel wasn't to be, Boyles was with the excellent 28 Weeks Later, his pandemic virus once again raging across London. The virus synopsis makes it unofficially a zombie movie as you can get it without dying but I'm sure it counts as metaphor for the undead in some way.

This time up Boyle hands over the directing duties to Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, his style very similar to Boyles. In fact with plenty of snappy and jerky hand-held cameras and 2x speed shots to simulate the rage it feels like there was a more than a helping hand from Boyle. Whoever held the clapperboard it seems to retain the originals pace and visceral horror of Boyle's classic, once again Alex Garland ready with his pen to sort the script.

28 Days Later Recap

In present day London some animal activist freed some primates from a lab, unaware of the fact the apes were testing a dangerous virus in their blood, which when mixed with human blood proves devastating.
Motorcycle courier (Cillian Murphy) has suffered an accident just before the outbreak and wakes from a coma one month later, London deserted and the virus rampant, killing or infecting pretty much everyone in Britain. One bite and within 30 seconds the person becomes rabid and attacks the nearest person to them, relative or not

28 Weeks later

With the United Kingdom under U.N control by American troops the disease is all but beaten, starvation killing all the infected long ago, the U.Ks 500 odd survivors about to be joined by other repatriated Brits from abroad into the East London control zone, an area declared clean and ready for the first human habitation in England.
After a bit of bloody mood setting back story on some survivors we are introduced to the Harris family, separated before the virus took hold as the kids were sent to France by their parents, dad (Robert Carlyle) believed to be the only one of the two to make it through.

The family are about to meet up for the first time, destination control zone on the Isle of Dogs, where Rod

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