foreign [Music] count where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm James A genise and today we're looking at 28 Days Later a British film released in 2002. 28 Days Later is a benchmark horror film that perfectly captured the post-911 Zeitgeist and changed the zombie sub genre forever filled to the brim with standout settings and memorable sequences this movie features a remarkable amount of talent its cast has a couple of actors who were known at the time but still had huge roles ahead of them and other actors who were just starting their careers and would go on to find huge success the people behind the camera were just as impressive too this was Alex Garland's first screenplay after having made a name for himself with his 1996 novel The Beach garland would wind up writing and directing films like ex machina Annihilation and Men directing Garland's script here was Danny Boyle who had already done Trainspotting and an adaptation of the beach Boyle would go on to direct oscar-nominated movies like Slumdog Millionaire 127 Hours and Steve Jobs 28 Days Later follows a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic Britain the country's been devastated by the rage virus a highly contagious sickness that turns people into murderous Maniacs it's so lethal Society has crumbled a mere four weeks after the first exposure thus the title these hordes of mindless Killers aren't technically dead or Undead for that matter but 28 Days Later is a zombie movie in spirit screenwriter Garland was initially inspired by the Resident Evil games after all though he did base the rage infection on real world diseases like a recent foot and mouth outbreak it resulted in the slaughter of over 5 million animals that's more than the entire human population of Liverpool the rage virus also borrows symptoms of Ebola and the animal to human transmission of HIV and mad cow disease maybe that's why director Boyle didn't think of this as a zombie movie at all he called it a reflection on social rage still the film's three acts are basically a speedrun of the Romero Trilogy the first is centered around fighting for survival and learning about the new reality just like of the Living Dead the middle of the film follows a makeshift family settling in and occasionally having fun just like what we saw in Dawn and the Final Act involves a small military unit who's trying to keep things under control just like in the underrated Day of the Dead though inspired by Romero's films 28 Days Later keeps itself fresh with well-acted characters and of course the element of speed again these aren't technically zombies since the infected folk are all still alive but it's no coincidence that after this movie cinematic zombies picked up the pace most notably with the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake 28 Days Later also feels like the purest distillation of the post-911 era even though it was written and began production before September 11th most of the film is shot on low resolution DV using Canon XL1 digital video cameras instead of traditional film this is the way we record our lives we are surrounded in this city by cameras it was one of the first big films to be shot digitally which provided both opportunities and challenges for product action the biggest impact though is how the film looks this movie feels like you're watching it on a duplicated VHS it feels like if I return it to Blockbuster late I'd wind up dead in seven days it makes the movie unbelievably Eerie like the original Evil Dead which looks so grainy and home spawn it feels like a snuff film this is the digital equivalent of that which is perfect for the nihilistic early 2000s when the internet was still primitive entertainment was shit like that Colin Powell Banana Boat spoof watched on a 56k connection 28 Days Later immediately transports you back to that time and I love it when a movie captures the essence of an airwell and you can trust me on this one I remember that era well 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out raycon 2 by going to the link in the description or going to buy raycon.com dead meat to get 15 off your raycon purchase nice guy that 2000's me no that's a lie he was a total asshole with a bunch of pseudo zombies give us a real zombie movie body count let's find out and get to The Kills the movie begins with animal cruelty a monkey being forced to watch cable news eco-terrorists break into primate jigsaw's Lair to liberate chimp kind from the outrage feedback loop a scientist tries to stop him saying the monkey's blood is infected with a super contagious virus infected with what right just like that the movie sets up the stakes and gets some commentary in if you sit around all day watching outrage porn it'll turn you into a rage-fueled wild animal just like this little guy before anyone can say nope the chimp goes full Gordy on an activist who then activates rage mode and spreads it by spitting in another guy's eyes when the scientist tries to intervene with the steel stool he's attacked and killed off screen while his chimpan prisoners watch from their cages Turtle car Days Later a bike messenger named Jim wakes up from his coma in an abandoned Hospital yeah remember The Walking Dead this movie did it first and with way more dog that dog belongs to Irish actor Killian Murphy last seen on the kill count using warp pipes in a quiet place too when director Danny Boyle cast him he was a 25 year old at the beginning of his career he'd go on to do many great things including Wes Craven's red eye that movie rules Jim replenishes A month's worth of lost nutrients with a lukewarm Pepsi before venturing out into the world and discovering an empty dystopia there are no fair ladies on London Bridge and not a single one American werewolf to be found his sightseeing tour of an eerily empty London set beautifully to godspeed You black Emperor song East Hastings is the film's most iconic sequence selling the scale of the infection in just a few shots not that they were easy to capture what we're trying to do is try and find kind of iconic images that again did the work of a huge huge budget to get shots of these popular places without any people in um production only had a week of one hour Windows to shoot in usually starting around three or four in the morning thankfully shooting with video cameras allowed them to work quickly the police were quite happy to hear sisters in the councils to assist us doing it because we could do it so quickly we could be ready to shoot in literally minutes to capture this overturned double-decker bus they had to place the bus on his side get the shot and remove the bus all within 20 minutes when he finally gives up on finding the Sunday Funnies Jim makes his way to a church with edgy graffiti and a mosh pit oh wait that's a bunch of dead bodies fuck this is gonna be one of those I've never worked at anything like that was such a massive body comb it's going to be one of those there are 78 corpses here by writer Jeremy's count production couldn't afford to hire that many extras to play dead bodies so these are actually local college students paid in tea the scariest part about all these dead bodies is when Jim finds out not all of them are dead hello an infected priest stumbles in speaking in tongues and or choking on bile Jim sees the light of the danger he's in and cures the father's cold with a prescription from Dr Pepper Jim runs like hell and can thank his lucky prayers that the Lord works in mysterious ways like Molotov cocktails tossed by strangers the Divine immolation cremates one zombie eventually I mean he's infected don't really mind for a while the other two infected carry on extra crispy so Jim's Rescuers go for the mother of all double Taps by hiding behind a wall as a gas station explodes incinerating the other two infected it's a speck of spectacle against the barren cityscape one of my favorites of this movie's many awesome shots this practical explosion was filmed from 4 to 8 A.M on a Sunday morning and required production to clear 20 blocks and hold back 30 000 londoners the gas station was built from scratch in an Old World War II bomb Factory and brought real fire trucks to the scene since production forgot to give the local police department a heads up fucking whoops Jim's new pyro pales lead him down the tubes to their seat secret Clubhouse where they Regale him with snacks and dad jokes the comedically inclined man is Mark while his much more stoic non-romantic partner is Selena she's played by Naomi Harris who is also at the start of her career before going on to act in a bunch of big movies including the Daniel Craig Bond films as Moneypenny Selena and Mark tell Jim what's what good news no more taxes bad news fall of Man Killian Murphy sells the hell out of his disorientation from waking up to a world in Ruins what about the government what are they doing there's no government of course there's a government there's always a government yeah especially after the Patriot Act Jim's first plan of action is to run home to his mommy and daddy the duo agrees to help him but only if they abide by the two rules of East End Zombieland one only travel in numbers and two only travel in the sunshine never By Moonlight so slap that Mexico filter on and let's go find a dead body or your parents Jim I'm sure they're fine when they get to his parents house the next day they find the place smelling like British home cooking no bankers and match to be found here though just a dead Mom and Dad Mark sympathizes with Jim and tells the story of his own family's death they either died during the evacuation or during a traumatic afternoon in the Chuck E cheese ballpen all you could do is climb climb over more people they sleep in shifts and during Jim's watch he plays a bit of Riff tracks with some home movies give me a drink of that will you it's empty but Jim Jonah raised too loudly and ends up waking the neighbors Mark and Selena have to remind Mr Bridges and his daughter how to knock they put him down by puncturing their stomach lining and just hacking away damn they really get those reps in great tricep workout Mark the attack is a messy one and at the end of it Mark realizes he's got an open wound open and filling with infected blood wait Selena doesn't wait before Mark can Hulk out Selena hulks him to pieces she wasn't sure if he was infected but since the rage virus only takes 10 to 20 seconds to transform somebody she's not taking any chances so I guess that's rule number three don't get infected or Selena will fuck you up she tells Jim the next morning that she'll do the same to him if it happens to you I'll do in a heartbeat she's not here to make friends or find lovers she's only trying to survive because she ain't got no time to die staying Alive's As Good As It Gets the Frenemies follow a strange North Star an apartment complex that left its blinker on shots like this that show the blackened skyline at night were actually filmed during the day then darkened during editing it was easier for the visual effects team to add the Christmas lights rather than remove all the real lights that would have been on had they shot the skyline at night halfway up the Ghostbusters amount of stairs Jim gets a Pepsi headache and needs to cure it with more Pepsi Hair of the Dog I suppose his spawn con RNR is cut short when some Infected show up on the ground floor after seeing the effort it took Jim and Selena it's terrifying to watch The Rage infected bolt up the stairs with ease must really suck for Jim with that belly full of carbonation a knight in stolen armor guides the survivors to safety and the stragglers to Valhalla beating them to death in addition to doorman the sky's also the elevator operator and these days it only works one way once they get past the tiny bouncer Jim and Selena officially meet the guard Frank and his daughter Hannah the father-daughter Duo single-handedly keeping the spirit of Christmas alive the gracious hosts toast a new friendship with her finest bottle of Nickelodeon slime a 94 if I had to guess Frank is played by Brendan Gleason an established actor unlike most of the cast by this point he had already thrown rocks in Braveheart and watched a crocodile eat a bear and lay Placid most of his earlier roles were often thoroughly but here Gleason brings a lot of heart he'd combined those traits later as mad-eye Moody after lights out Jim freshens up careful man don't cut that razor on your cheekbones he tells Selena he wants to help Frank and Hannah since they're good people but she considers them nothing more than ballast I'll leave them behind in a heartbeat yeah Frank knows they're in a rough spot they've run out of water since it hasn't rained in 10 days you'd never think it Nadine Rhymes so badly not in fact in England I love this shot of all the empty buckets on the roof showing how dire things are at first the film crew only corralled about a hundred buckets when Boyle wanted more they scrounged up a thousand in just a few hours probably why some of them are laundry baskets without water their best plan is to follow a sketchy radio broadcast from a military camp since Frank's passed his homicidal Prime and Hannah is still coming into hers they asked Selena and Jim for their help after prodding Selena reluctantly agrees the foursome sets off in Frank's taxi on a dad joke and a prayer just so you know I don't take checks or credit cards too bad they can't play I Spy as they go it's always the letter M and the answer is always more kills to count this travel sequence has an Airy almost Whimsical score courtesy of composer John Murphy whose work helps make this movie Something Special the music may not sound like Goblin but I think it has the same eclectic Spirit to it like all dads Frank knows a shortcut that could get his entire family killed it's an underground tunnel to get across the river which like fuck that I've read that part of the stand didn't work out for this guy anyway whose body is seen down there but Frank decides to fuck around like Vin Diesel and find out like Mr Bean the over the hill driving stops the over the hill driver when they blow out a tire on the debris the survivors rally like a NASCAR pit crew and they'd better hurry since they're racing a swarm of Rage crazed chugs who are quickly advancing I love this movie's use of Shadows and lighting to be terrifying team uninfected wins by a hair and the losers go back to loitering aimlessly it's great seeing these little glimpses into infected behavior when there's no one around to be pissed at oh country looking like a corporate mixer or in the fun and games portion of the film one of my favorite tropes in dystopian movies it's so fun to see fantasies play out of what you would do if you have the world all to yourself screenwriter Alex Garland wrote the shopping Montage as a direct homage to Dawn of the Dead just like with those mismatched survivors a little consumer role play does their souls good single move 16 year old tall sliver warmer more aggressive Shop Smart Shop budgins just past the city limits the gang pulls over to bully a gas truck Jim goes inside to see if the roller dogs are still good but instead he finds a bunch of corpses including an infant oh man forget what I said zombie apocalypses aren't fun at all as Jim reflects on the not fun he's having the world's lightest voice sneaks up on him but the Boeing ain't sneaky enough to steal home plate Jim batters up and beats the kid to death oh the way off screen that is ain't gonna show our hero murdering a child before anyone could ask Jim why he looks like he just killed a kid Hannah distracts them with a sick drift yeah Fame disapproval all you want Frank what'd you expect when she's dressed like Sonia Blade the road trip continues down the abandoned M1 Motorway filming this turned out to be just as difficult as the London scenes it was like Windows where you have like I don't know three or four minutes to get the shot of the traffic is held down down the road the sequence was shot in its entirety between 7 and 9 A.M on a Sunday morning with 10 cameras rolling simultaneously for a whopping minute of footage just off screen in these shots is a rolling roadblock Guided by the police the non-pepsi headaches paid off though it really does make the entire country seem desolate but not too desolate to enjoy life's simplest Pleasures pretty ponies and picnics with peaches which come in a can they were put there by a man in a Factory downtown the storybook setting roads stop gets Selena feeling philosophical you'll never read a book that hasn't already been written well yeah that's how books work at least she's softening up a bit she's given Jim smooches and deciding that she was wrong about being a grumpy poopy pants Survivor gal they finally reached the camp which is inside of Manchester far from United that shit's falling apart and on fire when they enter through the blockade they don't find Salvation they only find a Call of Duty map Frank we have to go yeah go fucking way up poor Frank can't even Rage Quit beneath an impaled corpse in peace shut up bird I'll report you for griefing Frank tries to get the bird to stop squawking but instead just not a red tinted camera lens straight into his eye oh shit it's a dumb mistake that has lethal consequences and Frank immediately realizes he done fucked up in a struggle to fight the rage virus he sends mixed signals to his daughter I love you very much what keep away from me despite his most Valiant fatherly efforts the virus takes control before Jim can make the dad dead some campers steal his kill Frank Is tragically gunned down right in front of his teenage daughter okay guys he's dead all right now you're just wasting ammo come on the soldiers take Jim Selena and Hannah to their survivor's compound kicking off the Day of the Dead portion of the film this impressive Georgian Country House is known as Trafalgar park it was built in 1733 and isn't near Manchester at all it's southeast of Salisbury in South Wilshire I probably said all of those words wrong The Man In Charge here is Major Henry West who seems polite enough not sure I like how long his soldiers be staring though major West is played by this movie's other known quantity Christopher Eccleston a few years before he'd play the doctor he'd already been in David cronenberg's existence though as well as Gone in 60 Seconds and Boyle's first film shallow grave oh yeah it's a lot of a recurring thing we've done in itself Ultra violence as everyone settles in in their own special ways West takes gym aside and offers an apology since they're not a full military unit they're just the leftovers we must be a disappointment he doesn't have a cure for the virus but he does have floodlights tripwires landmines unwanted physical contact and a massive liability chained up in the garden and lastly meet Mayla yeah West is keeping mailer an infected comrade alive to learn more about the virus and you know keep the third act interesting eventually he'll tell me how long the infected take to start today not quite yet dinner anyone West wants to leave this group's Revival of civilization and judging by how they make Jones The Cook dress it's not hard to guess what they think of gender roles most of these soldiers seem like Rowdy rude boys especially the most broy of them all Corporal Mitchell Sergeant Farrell's the only sensitive one among them and he thinks the virus is the universe's way of curing the human disease major West doesn't like that kind of talk but an infected horde interrupts the lovely dinner conversation it's time for these boys to give them hell and their best stock sound effects must be hard to hit these moving targets because at first only a few get Shooting Gallery eventually some dude gets a double kill good work guy but not to be outdone one infected goes for a double kill on himself where are you he's gone and getting straight tens from the judges and hey you other 13 infected in the wide shots who died off camera do better to prepare for the roles Eccleston and the actors playing his men had a three-day boot camp under a military advisor I guess they never learned how to keep their eyes and mouth shut for meat showers but the clear is still given and everyone rebels in how safe they are except for the women that is since Selena is immediately assaulted by Mitch Jim and Farrell interfere in a fight threatens to break out until major West calms everyone down but doesn't exactly reprimand the Meatheads slow down that's because West is a major asshole he's promised his boys to lure women here as sex toys or sorry to repopulate society while the nine men do except wait to die themselves I don't know could have tried an improv group or something this queasy scene is where everything falls apart for Our Heroes it was important enough that Murphy Eccleston and Garland completely re-roaded on set after they didn't like how the originally scripted version played it worked it's Grouse West says Jimmy can join them but that there's no changing their mind about the women or sorry again woman and teenaged girl Jim declines and tries to get the ladies gone but for those feminist ideals he ends up knocked out and chained to a radiator sentenced to execution alongside fellow Ally Pharaoh Pharaoh's pretty sure he's got this whole thing figured out the quarantined us there is no infection it's just people killing people he's insane well there's definitely an infection but he's actually right about the quarantine part even though that wasn't always the case when production started Boyle and Garland agreed the infection had already spread worldwide it was only part way through that they decided to Reign it back and say the rage virus was confined to Great Britain Jim and Farrell are marched out to the execution part of the woods there's a big old pile of anonymous corpses there talk about a shallow grave Corporal Mitchell wants to stick the sergeant to make him suffer but private Jones hit fires a favor putting him down quickly with a gunshot Mitchell is pissed he didn't get to do a war crime and during the scuffle Jim excuses himself and his shirt he makes it all the way to the unprotected area outside the wall absolutely ruining their defenses we're fucked now the barbed wire has an ugly shirt stuck in it Mitch says Jim's as good as dead out there but he finds enough hope to go Rambo on their asses when he spots proof of civilization back at the compound the Monsters play with their victims and dress them up for the night Selena tries to help Hannah by giving her value if this is gonna happen at least she can make it so Hannah doesn't care thankfully Jim stops even more war crimes by Waltzing up to the blockade and ringing the doorbell the soldiers postponed their plans to NAB the prankster with West and a few others going back to the blockade what they didn't count on was Jim learning Batman moves in the past half hour now Jim can be Vengeance Jim can be the Knight Jim can go all Happy Gilmore with a crowbar on private Davis and for whatever reason Jim can set up Davis's body like he's Michael Myers okay Jim West hits traffic before he can warn the others so he honks his 50 caliber horn until the road clears it's the worst this traffic always when he got somewhere to be I mean you might as well just get out and walk oh I was joking that's a terrible idea but okay you do you back at the base Jim lets the party off the chain oh boy y'all bout to get mailer he's a party animal Selena tries to comfort Hannah who's looking like the deflated weed girl those pills I think they're having an effect Hannah's played by Megan Burns and only her second performance ever after this she left the business and briefly became a pop star under the name Betty curse though her career didn't wind up like her co-stars she's still great in this movie I love her scaring the shit out of the soldiers without even trying I think they've been killed so send shop finally the party arrives it's motherfucking mailer and you all know Mel are always out of tag there he goes puking again now don't call him an Uber he's doing fine this place is just getting mailer Corporal Mitchell sees that things are falling apart but still forces the bells back to the ball damn man you can't be this horny can you private Bedford here thinks he's got everything under control but too bad the infected private Clifton is a clever girl the ambushes Bedford with mailer for a two-on-one tickle fight see Bedford loves getting mailered oh okay mailer maybe tone it down private Jones Waits until the murder noises stop to crawl out from his super secret hidey hole but he runs right into a blade in the gut courtesy of our favorite bike Courier Jim's getting this remorseless killing thing down I I think Selena would be proud composer John Murphy's Kick-Ass main theme begins called in the house in a heartbeat it's awesomely ominous with a nice slow bill as Jim plays hide and seek with the infected even the movie starts to blur the line between the man and the rageful throughout the film The Rage zombies Zoom at an unnatural speed to achieve this boil and cinematographer Anthony Dodd mantle shot them at higher frame rates up to 1600 per second for this sequence they shot Jim at the same speed giving him the same signature jumpiness in the cursed doll room somehow private Bell can tell the difference and calls out for help no fucking leave me but clinginess is only gonna attract the wrong people dude like these infected Fellers who ring this Bell to death therefore Whom the Bell Tolls as Hannah hides behind an infected rage dude's self-image issues Mitchell pulls Selena into a bedroom still intent on being a heinous douche Jim sees him from above and with one last bat move closes the gap between him and Mitchell and he repeatedly closes the gap between Mitchell's skull and the wall to make sure the Mitch Stitch is completely taken care of Jim sticks his thumb straight into them eyes giving Mitch dead-eyed Lasik treatment on the house Selena assumes Jim's been infected but despite her earlier promise she hesitates to hack that was longer than a heartbeat oh I was that's guys oh damn it Hannah you're always ruining moments you and your drugs the three flee the house to held the last cab Out of Hell only to find out someone else had the same idea West shoots Jim in the happy trail so Hannah peels out to Avengers ABS now I don't agree with it but she makes a great case for driving High her drips have never been cleaner mailer hears his doordash are coming in hot good thing this party was just starting to die down and you know mailer likes to keep it going all night West dies a poetic death hoisted by his own petard or ripped to shreds by The Rage infected co-worker he kept on a chain in the backyard yep same day the survivors leave and yada yada their way to safety with another Tunnel Car wow didn't know title cards had a BOGO going on thanks to Selena's MacGyver surgery Jim has survived his second near fatal car crash with him like three days of waking up from the last one at least now he gets to recover in 35 millimeter film instead of on digital video since another four weeks have passed the infected are finally dying of starvation like these two almost made it to the end credits dudes with a global quarantine having done its job International forces are now checking in on any surviving Brits that includes Jim Selena and Hannah who have been shacked up in a cozy cottage they flagged down the pilot with the world's largest handkerchief trick and the movie ends on an optimistic note for Our Heroes how many dead body icons have infected the blank white void of the numbers let's find out wait what is that [Music] all right [Music] sorry I just hate when stuff gets in my eye by our account there were 178 dead people in 28 Days Later of those 43 were men 13 were women and 122 were too blurry to tell giving us a pie chart as gray as the Skies over London this respectable amount of kills puts 28 Days Later as the seventh highest kill count on this show Welcome to the top 10 my British Bros with a run time of 113 minutes that left us with a kill on average every .63 minutes or 38 seconds man those Mass Graves really sneak up on you I'll give the golden Chainsaw for coolest kill to the double landmine dude you don't get too many landline kills and horror movies in the first place and this guy goes and double dips respect double Shetty for lamascale goes to private Bedford plenty of people got killed off screen but this is via next snap sound effect show us some bone boil and that's it 28 Days Later came out in 2002 when ushered in a new breed of Speedy zombies it's phenomenal success led to a 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later I'll look at that when I can but right now I've got some stuff going on sorry until then I'm James agenise this has been the kill cow thanks a lot for watching this kill cow just a reminder that on Sunday is the second annual dead meat horror Awards it's premiering live here on dead meat at 3 P.M Eastern 12 p.m Pacific make sure you don't miss it this year's a lot bigger than last year we actually put a budget towards this thing check out the nominees slash finalists on our YouTube Community posts Instagram Tick Tock and Twitter I think they're all they're all posted on all of them I want to thank some patrons like Daniel West Tony William Darth Joker taco from TV Jake parker24 brady54 Patrick young Brady cook and William Franklin thanks everyone be good people almost