First off, 28 Days Later always struck me as a little bit too much like Day Of The Dead. It's a decent film and all, not one of my favourites, but when I watched it and it got to the part with the fascistic military compound with a chained up "zombie" I thought, "Oh, we've been here before"
The reason why I put zombie in speech marks is because I don't even consider the film a zombie film. I don't see them as zombies as they don't physically die they just change. Heck I think Suspiria has more cause to be a zombie film, at least they have one.
*sigh* rant over.
I think you can do a good remake and still be pretty comparable to the original (such as in Nosferatu) but for the most part, it's always better to go with something quite different.
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