Can '28 Years Later' Live Up to '28 Days Later' (2002)? | Patreon #61

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In this Patreon episode, we dive deep into the 28 Days Later franchise—breaking down its lo-fi horror legacy, Danny Boyle’s kinetic filmmaking, the breakout performances from Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris, and Alex Garland’s sharp political commentary. We also talk about the early buzz for 28 Years Later and why this film remains one of Trey’s all-time favorites.

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Episode Transcript

(00:14):
Music. Hello, welcome to the Extra
Credits plus of Danny Boyle's 28Days Later.
I'm Trey. And I'm Kelsey.
This is our very first installment of our new Extra
Credits Plus Patreon series called A+B Movies, where we
explore films that blur the linebetween prestige and genre,

(00:34):
movies that either look like B movies and feel like A movies or
look like A movies but feel likeB movies.
We're still figuring out the rubric.
I'm really excited to kick it off with this modern horror cult
classic, one of my favorite for movies of all time and 28 Days
Later. Yeah, I know.
I'm so excited too. It's not one of my favorite
horror movies, although I like appreciate the respect around

(00:55):
the movie. And that's just a a zombie, I
think genre thing that I'll talkabout as we get into this
episode. I'm not as into zombies in my
horror movies, but yeah, I'm pumped to to start out our
category of A+B movies on Patreon.
If you want to go listen to whatthat category even means, even

(01:16):
though you did a good job there,Trey, you can go back to our
announcement episode on Patreon where we explain how we're going
to be covering kind of cult classics, re watchable movies
that fall outside of our number one boy movie club classics and
our deep dives that we do on Patreon.
So it's a new category and I'm super pumped.

(01:36):
This is going to be like at the kind of top tier I think of of
what an A+B movie will be. Absolutely this in Pride and
Prejudice next on this A+B movieseries are going to be like the
top of the spectrum of where these movies can take us.
And I think most films are like going to be like three 3 1/2
Star Movies that everybody just enjoys talking about or watching
or rewatching. These movies are borderline

(01:58):
masterpieces for so many people,if not masterpieces.
So it might seem like we just picked this movie so we could
time it out with the new sequel,which is dropping tomorrow, 28
years later, which I'm very excited for.
We're seeing it tomorrow morning.
The reviews just came out because the embargo was lifted,
which is very nice to see. I was very worried about that.

(02:19):
I saw the headlines. They are mostly, and I say this
like with a grin on my face, mostly very positive, not just
positive, like highly positive, which is it just makes me I'm so
happy. I'm I'm really excited because
even though I like 28 weeks later and what they did in the
sequel, it wasn't by Boyle and Garland.
And you can tell that they've been waiting to want to come

(02:39):
back to this franchise for quitea while and do something new
with this genre, the sub genre of zombie post apocalyptic
movies. So I just, I can't wait to see
what they do with this beginningto a possible trilogy, which is
wild. Yeah, and I think we'll like
meet A, you know, from the trailer, this this formed like

(03:00):
civilization, right. And I'm I'm very interested to
see where they go with it. I mean, I wasn't necessarily
nervous because I'm not as invested in the 28 days weeks
later franchise. So I'll talk a lot today about
how I like newly came to this and how I experienced it.
And I think 28 days later is amazing.
I think 28 weeks later on your letterbox review, as you said,

(03:23):
the editing almost killed me. I think that like I for editing
is a lot for me. It's essentially like sitting in
a room alone with just a strobe light going off for like 90
minutes. That's the experience for me.
Although I think there's some interesting dad commentary
things in there. But I think the trailer right
for 28 years later was so good. One of the best trailers of the

(03:46):
last like a couple years. And so that also has really
pumped me up for this movie. So I'm so glad to see that
people are mostly saying like, this is great.
It's got that World War 1 Kipling poem playing throughout
it too, in a very horrifying way.
It's got that Danny Boyle stylistic way of filmmaking that
everything looks a little bit grimy and DIY and feels indie,

(04:07):
but also feels like they fit 50 or $60 million into these set
pieces. It's going to be so exciting.
And knowing Boyle, knowing Garland and being fans of both
film makers and this franchise, this is going to be a movie
about how humans are really the the true terror, you know, And
that's really the the smartest part about the zombie zombies

(04:27):
sub genre is that the zombies are usually a part of a
commentary about class, about power, about race, about
constructs, some kind of historical commentary about
massacres or genocide. And in this case, it seems like
civilization has crumbled and people are now fighting one
another. And there's like a it looks like
there's a civil war of human beings in the trailer with just

(04:47):
zombies watching. Like that's essentially.