What Genre would you put 28 Days Later in?
 

Hi, I am having a bit of a debate at RH What genre would you put 28 days later?

The poll is here I appreciate anyone who would like the vote it seems the majority doesn't think it should be in the zombie genre.
28 days later horror genre poll

My explanation here

Here are some reviews I ran across on the web, I really couldn't find one that said they were not a zombie movie or somewhat related to it.
juicy
Comingsoon.net
New York Times

Pus, Drac,me and the 2 Zombie twins ;) have a discussion about this in this thread here

I'd say as far as the main genre you'd have to classify it as horror and sub-genre it as a thriller maybe. Checked Netflix just for the hell of it and they have it in horror, doesn't really mean much though. I personally don't put much stock in genres because I like a lot of films that transcend them and I really don't feel the need to label a movie. You could call it a pseudo-zombie film but that's simply a sub genre of horror in itself. People being overcome with rage and killing others mercilessly is pretty horrific whether they are "zombies" or not. I liked 28 Days Later, not as much as I thought I would because of the hype and even for different reasons; but I did enjoy it.

I dunno.... maybe as an action/horror type?

I would still put it in the genre of a zombie movie. Although the person might not be medically dead, the person that they once were is no more. So I would consider that person to be dead, maybe not in a literal sense, but he/she is driven by something not human.

horror

Horror / Sci fi, like resident evil.

Re: What Genre would you put 28 Days Later in?
 

i might add though .. it seems like an unnessessary debate .. hardly worth the effort.

i catagorize things for the sake of simplicity - being able to find it in my collection ... Other people do it for other reasons - reference books .. etc..

but as far as i'm concerned it's something you do in your subconcious in a way that seems fit to you based on whatever little criteria is floating around your braincase.

so my arguement really is : 'for my purposes - i stick it under horror .. because it's shot like a horror film despite the fact that the people arent technically dead - therefore not zombies - whoop de doo."

"i put it there.. maybe you do or dont .. it's not affecting my world in the slightest'



end of debate.

Romantic Comedy! Come on women love those witty Brits in uniform.

Re: What Genre would you put 28 Days Later in?
 

if pus is involved then WPAM must have been mentioned.....


....he loves his WPAM :p

its the same genre as Mutant ..I guess you can call it a crossover.....IMDB has 28 Days Later listed as.... Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

How about the "suck" genre?




But seriously, I thought this movie was dull as hell. I'd say horror/sci-fi.

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bore horror/sci-fi

LOL a couple of the replies. I would put it in the "I didn't like it too much" genre. It had one good scene for me that I thought was disturbingly believable (guess which one it was?) but the rest of it I couldn't believe. That is to say, in my case, the movie did not suspend my DISbelief. Well it was a bad night that night. I watched it with two other friends and we kept picking it apart until finally we were predicting the next thing that would happen and the next; and finally we were laughing at everything that happened.

But part of the reason THIS happened was that I had heard all the stuff people were saying about it...how it was the scariest zombie movie or whatever. (Dead Zombies, Live Zombies, I'll ignore the distinction here.) So I was frankly intimidated and not anxious to see the film because, well, scary films scare me. Suffice it to say that when we started watching the film and the attacks started occurring, I sat back and said, "This isn't scary! I've seen really serious zombie movies, and this is like a piece of delicious toast with zombie marmalade on it. The critics are wimps if they were scared by THIS!"

However!! a lot of REALLY smart, wonderful people like this movie, so I think they're tuning into something that I wasn't getting. So it's not like I'm trying to disrespect the folks who like it. However, when I saw the " 'suck' genre" suggested, I did laugh, and it was a REAL laugh, not one of those fake ones!

I didnt think too much of it either, though I plan to give it another day in court.

Did anyone watch the alternate endings on the DVD? The one that was just storyboard w/commentary was very good. If they'd used that, the movie would have been alot better. Boyle didnt film it beause he didnt think it was believeable enough:rolleyes:

horror/medical drama ;)

A most derivative and overrated film, it seems the is it a zombie film... or not? debate is still raging all over the internet.

A zombie is described as a revived corpse, which these still living people are not.

They are also not flesh-eaters and move at a fair lick, which further removes them from contemporary zombie lore.

However they can be described as 'zombie-like', and most analysis make allowances for dull and shambling groups of folk wandering around looking for trouble.

Wait, that's just cannabis-users...

:D

Action/Horror too!

Personally
 

A waste basket
Seriously though the action/adventure gerne :D

i enjoyed this film .. well directed, well acted, nicely paced ..
not sure why people jump all over it ... not enough gore ?

28 Days Later is Zombie Horror and if you try to call it anything you're just nitpicking.

This reminds me of all the jokes on sitcoms about Star Trek actors facing their nerdy fans that like to point out and probe them on some stupid little technicality in an episode ten years ago.

Technically the virus has made the city have bloodlust without killing them first but who really cares? There's still a city full of people that arent curable and are trying to eat ya.

The main genre is horror. The sub genre is zombie.

I can't even believe there are SO MANY people that would sit and combat such a petty fact. It's clearly a zombie movie and the director has even said so in interviews.


EDIT: ADDED LINK TO ONE OF INTERVIEWS

http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_030627boyle.html

I thought it was pretty good too. The scene where he first walks out of the hospital into deserted London is great. I liked it enough to buy it when it came out after seeing it in the theatre.

Considerig it's cheap, I plan to buy it soon. From memory I didnt like it, but I saw it before I was really into horror. After hearing some great reviews I want to check it out again.

That is an interpretation you are entitled to, but a zombie means a revived corpse first and foremost.

Nitpicking, accurate, whatever you want to call it.

:cool:

Agreed....they are not zombies...they are infected people.

but .................................................. ...................................


it's got all the trappings of a zombie movie ...
like The Crazies, or Rabid, or Mutant.



lets just say it's a zombie movie - without zombies.

the way April Fools Day was a slasher ... without any killings.


ooops ... delayed spoiler alert
:eek:

I don't think James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 quote.....


"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

...is relevant here.

This is like trying to argue the fact that Steinbrenner ruined baseball to a Yankees fan and I just don't understand it...


The director himself has refered to it as a zombie film.

A film is a work of art.

How can you tell an artist he's wrong when he's telling you what it is?

Artists should be allowed creative liscence.

So if he, the director, says it's a zombie film and it has the general feel of a zombie film throughout the entire movie except for one point-of-origin detail, then I think creative license should be a no-brainer. Who are we (You guys actually, not me.) to argue with the artist that created the work of art that the film he directed is not what he says it is?

Who cares how this new breed of zombies got this way? We the horror fans are always the ones bitching at them to do something original in the first place, aren't we? They try a fresh idea on an old as dirt film villain and all they catch is slack from the same folks griping at them to do something new to begin with. Geez!

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let's say it's a zombie movie with a fresh different sort of zombie. One that doesn't neccesarily die first before becoming a crazed bloodthirsty contagious maniac in an entire city full of them chowing on the last few survivors....

were people eaten in 28 days later ? (i havent seen it in ages)
i thought they were just killed ...

Hmmm...

I'll rewatch it after I finish Kong and Narnia and let ya know. I thought they were, or bitten at least to spread it?

People were getting eaten in "Deep Throat", but i wouldn't call that a "zombie" movie.:D

This is the only the second time i have disagreed with Bwind. The first being the Bruce Lee vs. Chimp debate.

its definetly a horror film. and enough with this "its not a zombie movie, because technically they are still alive."

oh and i also thought it was a pretty damn good film. especially the end.

poor mrs newb ... the guy cant tell the difference between sucking and eating :D


probably never had to feed him as a baby .. his gut was full of all the soothers he downed :D

Bingo....by defination a zombie is reanimated life.

You wouldn't call the antagonist in "The Omega Man" zombies....would you....of course not...they are infected.

she hasn't complained yet.:D

so ... are vampires zombies then ? ;)

Zombie


1. A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.

2. A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse.
a. A corpse revived in this way.

3. One who looks or behaves like an automaton.

4. A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueur, and fruit juice.

Well......i....er............i hate you.

struth !

origionally zombies didnt go around eating people ...
they just behaved like slaves ...

sort of like the people where i work.


the closest thing any recent film has gotten to re. proper zombies is the ones wandering around at the Mall in the origional Dawn of the Dead.