Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:01 pm
arlos wrote:So if 28 Days Later ISN'T a horror movie, what is it?
-Arlos
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arlos wrote:So if 28 Days Later ISN'T a horror movie, what is it?
-Arlos
spazz wrote:Its a zombie movie wich would be an offshoot of the horror catagory.
spazz wrote:Than what are they ?
"the Infected" are not undead zombies, but living humans driven insane by a highly communicable virus. As a result, rather than lumbering towards human victims like zombies, the Infected move extremely quickly; and, because of an adrenaline rush, they have great strength and endurance. However, as they are not zombies, the "only way to kill it is to shoot out its brain" rule that applies to zombies does not apply to them, so any wound that could kill a normal human could kill them. Like zombies, however, the Infected have an (unexplained) ability to tell fellow Infected apart from regular humans, and do not attack other Infected. The Infected do maintain some semblance of intelligence. They tend to group together in numbers, they sometimes work together when attacking an individual, and they can tell that their reflection is not a potential victim.
A development that Major West pointed out is that the Infected are living human beings, but they seem to never eat food (or human flesh like zombies do), either because they have forgotten how or are so consumed by Rage that they do not bother. Major West correctly surmised that the Infected would all eventually starve to death as a result, though exactly how long was uncertain (one should point out that a regular human body succumbs from lack of water in a matter of days, while dying of starvation in a matter of weeks); he actually had an Infected soldier chained up but not killed for the express purpose of finding out how long it would take for it to starve. In the flash-forward to another "28 days later" at the end of the film (eight weeks after the outbreak), two emaciated, immobile Infected were seen who would soon die of starvation. Similarly, the Infected do not talk or commmunicate otherwise, although there is only one such incident in the movie, in which the Infected boy screams "I hate you!".