28 Days Later

[Maitreya]

How many more geniuses are gonna come on here and argue that the infected in 28 DAYS LATER are not zombies... when no one here has even seriously said that they are? Everyone knows that, technically, they're not zombies. You don't have to point out the obvious. Therefore, its not a question of content here but one of form. 28 DAYS LATER adhere's to conventions of what has become the zombie sub-genre - in particular, those films written and directed by George A. Romero. It plays like a f*cking zombie movie people and, quite obviously, deliberately so. Otherwise we wouldn't even be having this discussion. I disagree! Apparently 5 people at least feel this way, and I've seen a few people on this board, and other thinking that they are. Those people will also be caught, arrested, and punished to the full extent of the law at some point.

[EvilNed]

It IS a Zombie Movie! How can you be so bliiiiind?!?!? You stupid men with your stupid minds! You're all Stupid STUPID! Haha Nice quote.

[MinionZombie]

Actually I've seen many, many people thinking/considering 28DL is a zombie movie, not just on HPOTD. It's an issue that's sprung up now and then ever since the film was released and folk here on the forum started chatting about it.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

It is to be expected that those who have "minds like jelly" will be confused over such a simple conundrum ... And while this may well be a paradoxical or insoluble dilema for certain members, the majority of us should just stand back and laugh

[kortick]

the movie says it all the leader has the infected guy on a chain to see how long it takes him to starve to death typically you dont try to kill a zombie by starving it to death....

[MinionZombie]

Zactly, and 56 days after the outbreak the remaining infected are lying around like bags of skin and bone keeling over from starvation, having not rotted at any point in their infected life (which was just their normal life plus a nice big kiss of infection).

[Deadman_Deluxe]

Zactly again, plus they don't even eat flesh .... and the infected themselves have more in common with DEMONS, another movie which can be dumped into the horror/post apocalypse sub genre.

[Griff]

I think someone could regard 28 DAYS LATER as being a zombie movie whilst simultaneously acknowledging its not a movie about zombies, per se. Anyone here ever heard of 'lateral thinking'?

[kortick]

the only flaw with 28 days is the rage virus itself it makes sense that the zombies in romeros films dont attack each other but those infected by rage should attack anyone, even other infected people maybe it should be called 'selective rage'

[kar98k]

zombie n 1: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force [syn: zombi, the living dead] this is the dictionary.com definition of a zombie. we all know that also that you have to destroy the brain to permenantly dispose of a zombie. in 28 days later, you kill an infected the same way you would kill a regular human. the infected are just that: infected. they are still alive, just they have been infected with the rage virus. one must be a reanimated corpse in order to be a zombie.

[OddDNA]

If it is discovered in an upcoming GAR film that the undead are brought back to life by a virus or radiation from the venus probe we will all have to come to terms with the fact that all this time GAR has not even been making zombie movies and James Gunn may be known as the father of the zombie genre.<---laughing smiley face goes here at the end, I just dont know how to do all that stuff.

[zombiegirl]

HMMMM This brings back memeroies of a debate I had with friends about Night Of the Comet. Definately not zombies there either.