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28 Days Later

As intense as any movie I've seen in the last number of years, 28 Days Later was as scary as it was intended to be. A movie I highly recommend seeing, especially for horror flick junkies, read on for reasons to see it.

If you are generally scared by movies, and enjoy it!, you might be interested in two little facts. First, 28 Days Later was one of the few movies I've seen that has left me with watery legs and watery bowels afterwards. Second, my wife was so reminded of her nightmares that she actually had to leave the movie and wait in the car. Yes, it's that disturbing/enjoyable (depending on your perspective).

It's a familiar (cf. 12 Monkeys) plot: man looses deadly virus, virus wipes out majority of population, chaos ensues. Nothing exciting there. Man finds one of the last women in the world, sexual tension ensues. Nothing exciting *there* either. But this is no ordinary movie; despite the slightly cliched plot, the details really make the movie. The fact that it's a foreign film helps, since the plot is not *quite* so predictable as to be bland/American.

The scare tactics are little more than loud noises at (in)opportune times, but they are surprisingly effective, especially at a theater that employs surround sound, or the like. The cinematography is well-done, in that it both conveys the "alone-ness" of the protagonist at the beginning, as well as it protrays the horror of the "Rage-infected" monsters.

It's one of those flicks that I cannot quite explain. It's a fun, "suspension-of-belief" sort of movie that makes a great date movie... provided your date doesn't get disgusted and leave the theater 30 minutes into it...