Sony’s 28 Years Later isn’t simply reintroducing audiences to the collection’ devastating post-apocalypse, it’s additionally bringing some new horrors alongside for the experience.
In an interview with IGN, director Danny Boyle teased the Contaminated have gained some new methods since their final sighting in 28 Weeks Later. Together with the standard, fast-running ones that’ve been everywhere in the advertising, some have “mutated” to outlive on this new setting. Therefore, the “Sluggish-lows,” so named as a result of they “grasp about low degree” and don’t do operating of any type. Regardless of their lack of pace Boyle “[doesn’t] advise messing with them.”
When you’ve performed video video games with zombies, you recognize it’s by no means only one variant lurking round. Together with the Sluggish-lows, 28 Years Later will introduce Beserker and Alpha sorts that are stronger than the common Contaminated and may need some intelligence buried inside their Rage Virus-addled minds. On a technical degree, Boyle mentioned the staff typically shot the Contaminated “in a brittle, virtually unreliable manner” much like how they dealt with the primary movie. However the brand new undead get some extra prospers, like Sluggish-low actors have cameras connected to them to reinforce viewers worry, or some sequences with particular Contaminated requiring 20 iPhones to concurrently document as a way to create “a poor man’s bullet time.”
The brand new Contaminated additionally lend themselves to 28 Years’ images. For you format sickos, Boyle additionally informed IGN the movie was shot on widescreen to copy the primary film’s “unease…the pace and the speed, the visceral [aspect] of the best way the contaminated have been depicted. When you’re on a widescreen format, they could possibly be wherever… it’s a must to preserve scanning, wanting round for them, actually.”
28 Years Later hits theaters on June 20.
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