You will occasionally meet people who thought 28 Days Later wasn't 'scary' or 'gory' enough. Definitely a wise choice to film this on digital video. The grainy picture serves to add a documentary-style quality to the film, which makes the whole situation seem almost too real to bear. It's the scenes of complete silence which get to you the most an entire metropolis empty. It's true that sometimes minimalism can be more effective than overblown bravado, and it's definitely true for this movie. Thankfully, my fears proved unfounded, discarded straight after a opening sequence which is at once effortless and fearsome. Still, judging 28 Days Later entirely on its merit as a film, it's easy to arrive at the conclusion that it's a fantastic achievement, as well as a coming-of-age of sorts for director Danny Boyle I can't say the MTV-inspired vanity of The Beach, or the self-consciously trendy posturing of Trainspotting appealed to me, and to my shame I initially expected 28 Days Later to be given a similar treatment. But seeing them occur in the place you call home is something that gives it an entirely new sense of reality, and one I was previously unaccustomed to.
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Usually when you watch a movie like this it's located in some nondescript Midwestern village, which makes it easy to detach yourself from the events unfolding on screen. After all, this is set in the city I live and work in, and seeing Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus, which I pass by every morning and which are usually teeming with crowds of people, completely empty was enough to send shivers down my spine.
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