28 days later..considered a zombie movie?

I do because they are zombie like, and have many of the same effects in horror, except eating....Plus they are infected and angry, just not dead. And zombies are alive again, but they died so...

A zombie is a re-animated corpse. These are not corpses. They are psychotic, blood-thursty victims of a bio-weapon virus.

Just like Romero's The Crazies...

It's a tough call. It has definatley left its mark on zombie horror; perhaps they are crazed out of their minds? I dont know. It definatley sits on the curve

[Bad Zombie Night]

If you do a Google search on 28 Days Later, you'll find most of the reviews refer to it as a Zombie film.... Looks like a Zombie film, smells like a Zombie film, and tastes like a Zombie Film, then it probably is a Zombie film.

Originally Posted by Stash Horak

A zombie is a re-animated corpse. These are not corpses. They are psychotic, blood-thursty victims of a bio-weapon virus.

Thats about all there is to say.

Originally Posted by outkast

Thats about all there is to say.

yah i thought it would be considered somewhat part of it.

depending on how strict you are with zombie movies, this could go either way. i tend to lump this movie in the zombie genre the same way i do with nightmare city, last man on earth, and demons. not quite zombies, but good enough!

28 days later is zombie enough for me, plus a dash of social commentary is always a plus

[The Blind Dead]

Originally Posted by Stash Horak

A zombie is a re-animated corpse. These are not corpses. They are psychotic, blood-thursty victims of a bio-weapon virus.

Just like Romero's The Crazies...

I can vaguely remember an interview with Danny Boyle in which he clearly states this isn't a zombie film, although Alex Garland wrote it as one. Boyle wasn't a fan of zombie flicks so he decided to concentrated more on the whole infected human idea.

Here's what Boyle told the BBC:

Originally Posted by Danny Boyle

It's this idea of a psychological virus. Like road rage, that moment when the red mist descends, if you magnify that a thousand times and experience it to the exclusion of everything else, imagine what that kind of power would be like. That was our monster. If you really think about that, it's very, very scary indeed.

We cast athletes as the monsters, because they're incredibly powerful and you can sense that power in them. We also used manifestations of Ebola: the vomiting and blood pouring from orifices; and the rictus look of fear at the hydrophobia stage of rabies. Hopefully all of that makes it a very scary film.

i guess i consider 28DL a zombie film and i've seen little to convince me otherwise.

I would classify it as a zombie film because it's creators said in an interview that they loved zombie films, and wanted to pay homage to them, particularily Dawn of the Dead.

Aren't mummies the original zombies? They didn't hunger for flesh, as far as I know - they just strangled people. Go figure. SO these monsters in 28 Days later are just different.

Must agree with it being a zombie film. Doesn't the guy at the beginning die before he gets crazy? Not quite sure. I'll have to take another look. It has many other elements of a zombie film. Survivors finding survivors, thinking the world has ended, people biting one another and firepower. What's lacking is headshots!

[Sadogoat]

Originally Posted by awfulman

Aren't mummies the original zombies? They didn't hunger for flesh, as far as I know - they just strangled people. Go figure. SO these monsters in 28 Days later are just different.

I wouldn't class them as zombies, although they DID have flesh-eating mummies in 1981's Dawn Of The Mummy

[Darth Erroneous]

It is zombie-like. It has qualities of a zombie movie, but lacks other things (they're not dead). It's what my old gym teacher would call a "fense stradler" Still a darn good film, though.

Not a zombie movie. Otherwise -just like it has been mentioned-, then The Crazies is a zombie film too.

Now I see there needs to be a higher standard for the elements that constitute the basis of what is a zombie flick.

[Bad Zombie Night]

Originally Posted by Mindtraveller

Not a zombie movie. Otherwise -just like it has been mentioned-, then The Crazies is a zombie film too.

The Crazies were nothing more the mentally disturbed people, running around, and killing other people... The infected in 28 Days Later were bleeding from their orifices, and vomiting blood similar to a Ebola virus outbreak... Also I believe the organs liquify during this process making the victim unable to move, much less run around, or have the strength to murder anyone... On that note, I'd say the 28 Days Later creatures are more like Zombies, than a bunch of sick folk.