28 Weeks Later (2007)

Film details

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Year2007
CountryUK
GenreZombie
TypeMovie
Runtime100m
CastRobert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Idris Elba, Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton, Amanda Walker, Shahid Ahmed

Review

"Coincidence or not, the visual aesthetic and energy of Fresnadillo's film bears a striking resemblance to Cuarón's — both use a pallette of dull and desaturated colors, as if the colors itself were weary of the worlds they're inhabiting. Fresnadillo's camerawork, like that in Children of Men, is jittery, so restless and panicky, in fact, that you think it might burst forth from the screen. It's the director's deft and sylish hand with this material that makes 28 Weeks such a refreshing jolt, plying a genre routinely deadened by sub-par slasher-fests. The exhilaration evident in the smartly-cut action sequences, the glances at pathos in the sequences of loss, betrayal, guilt, and abandonment underscore Fresnadillo's considerable directorial powers; the man is taking his job seriously and at full-steam, never condescending to it." - Jay Antani, Cinema Writer

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,00011
HIGHEST#1562016
LOWEST#6342026
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The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

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HIGHEST#682021
LOWEST#1702026
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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