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Danny Boyle on That ’28 Years Later’ Tearjerker Element: ‘You’ll Weep with Terror’
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Danny Boyle on That ’28 Years Later’ Tearjerker Element: ‘You’ll Weep with Terror’
Scary stuff: filmmaker Danny Boyle said that there were fears from some studio brass that reviews calling “28 Years Later” a moving tear-jerker might spoil its box office potential. “Obviously, the core audience is a horror audience, and they’re concerned if too many reviews call it a weepie. … But the first film was actually very moving, too,” Boyle told The Independent. “So [hiding the film’s tearjerker story] is born out of the right instinct…
In an era of small screens and immediate content, Danny Boyle is committed to the monumental. With Extermination: Evolution, the acclaimed British director reinvents the post-apocalyptic horror cinema with a visually expansive, emotionally intense and technically bold vision. The tape, spiritual continuation of his classic 28 days later, is positioned as an immersive experience to be lived on the big screen. One of the most distinctive elements …
28 Years Later movie review | Danny Boyle's zombie threequel is alive and kicking!
A while ago, I wrote a short retrospective on Jurassic World (2015). In that piece, I looked at what a perfect metaphor the dinosaurs of the Jurassic series are for modern day franchises: they are imperfect reanimated simulations of a now-lost past. I was prepared to repeat a version of that line here for Danny Boyle’s latest, which is a return to the zombie horror he near-perfected in 2002’s 28 Days Later. But 28 Years Later is neither a zombie…
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