Horror Movies&Different types of genre

28 weeks later

This movie is called 28 weeks later. The director of the movie is Danny Boyle, a director well known for his low budget but epic horror movies. Its a British film from the post-apocolyptic horror genre. Post apocolyptic horror movies consist of the typical conventions; Pandemic break outs, Blood, The brave person who survives etc. Its a sub genre of science fiction which concerens the survival of the human race. This is an intresting genre becuase while watching it, it makes us wander what if that were to happen to us due to the fact that it is about a pandemic break out and it puts everyone in the same boat, a type of 'theirs no where to run feel'. This Movie is based in London, iconic locations such as warren's streets BT tower, isle of dogs, Big Ben, Tower Bridge all in which I am familiar with on a personal level as I am a Londener and these icons I pass through or see on a daily basis were used in this movie. This movie was succesful towards scaring me beause I live literally 5 minutes away, its a very busy every where with commuters traveling, making their journeys to work and school. To think that area is isolated with no sign of life,atleast not human(zombies), gives me a chill down my spin becuase its just extremely hard to imagine. Also thiers know where to run in that particular area, you have tall buildings all in which hundreds of people work in. Now the out break spread all over london if i were trying to escape and pass by a busy loction such as warren street/Euston I think id be expecting some zombies trying to make their journey to living flesh. The trailer uses cuts to create a quick pase tension in order to keep the audience wanting more and creating suspension between scenes for example in the first 12 seconds of the trailer their are 3 cuts, the first cut is a full shot of londons iconic isle of dogs, a busy place in which office workers work, 2nd scene a birds eye view shot of BT tower(tracking was used) and the 3rd cut was of an airplane landing in an isolated airport that looks like it hasnt been used in quite a while. All scenes however seem to have no sign of life untill the airplane comes landing. After the plane comes landing in the director then introduces more signs of civilization with hundreds of people flooding in. Inbetween the cuts we have words such as "re population" after the airplane has landed and people are approching the escalator,"sterilization" while that woman is being cleaned, and "quarantine" as the isle of dogs is baracaded with security in every corner. These words are simple yet significant towards leaving the audience with a horror chill as they describe the in pact this apocolyptic out break had amongst Britain, an empire known in history as the undeafeatable empire which was eventually beaten by a small but deadly outbreak.