28 Days Later - Zombies Invade England

[Takumi]

I saw it Friday just for the alternate ending. Get this, the reel messed up during the secret ending where the picture was inverted and the middle was blackened out. Fan-fucking-tastic.

Anywho, here's what happens (or from what I could tell) Celena and Hannah are in the hospital trying to resucistate (sp?) Jim who is dying from the gunshot wound in the stomach. They give him drugs and CPR and whatnot but at the end he dies. The two chicks wipe their tears and say they have to move on and try to live. The end. Personally, I was hoping Jim would have become infected and killed them both or some twist ending involving the survivors

[Chux]

I never saw it before, but I think I'm gonna see it with the new ending, there is really nothing beside going to the beach down here in Hatteras.

[animegirl]

I just finished watching this movie and I loved it. Fast zombies kick ass! The entire last 30 minutes of the film were excellent and the gore was up there. Can't wait for this to be on DVD! My favorite part was when Jim finished gouging the soldiers eyes out and he looks just like an infected all bloody and crazy. I think it was meant to show how thin the line was between the unfocused rage of the infected and the deliberate evil normal people commit all the time.

[Despair]

Well, The only thing I dont get, is all the praise for gore. Really, the only scene that can be called gory is eye gouging. Rest of the encounters is filmed in the fast motion, with people covered with fake blood. It just filmed that way so you can see only ferociosness of the infected, but not details of the mutilations. It works effectevly, but its not gory dismemberment like in good old Braindead, or Evil Dead films.

[Sqoon]

Which ending is in the original script?

[Takumi]

The hospital scene was the original ending. They created the super-happy-fun scene for American audiences, but another ending was written but never filmed. In it, Celena and Hannah are saved by the plane 28 days later but Jim is nowhere to be seen. We assume he died.

[animegirl]

The reason I said the movie was gory was because horror movies nowdays have little if any gore at all. Evil Dead and Braindead were made in the good old days of horror when gore was king. I guess I could say that 28 days later is the bloodiest movie I have seen in a while.

[red_war_machine]

The hospital scene was the original ending. They created the super-happy-fun scene for American audiences, but another ending was written but never filmed. In it, Celena and Hannah are saved by the plane 28 days later but Jim is nowhere to be seen. We assume he died.

The super happy fun scene is the one with the finnish plane, right?

It wasn't created for American audiences, then. We got it too.

[Sqoon]

The super happy fun scene is the one with the finnish plane, right?

It wasn't created for American audiences, then. We got it too.

That's what I'm confused about.

On IMDB, there's a badly written piece of trivia, which says something like the 'happy ending' was the ending in the script, but was changed to the 'bad ending' when test audiences were expecting a downbeat ending (as with nearly all "zombie" movies). Just wondering if anyone could confirm/clarify (maybe they've read the script online or bought it since it's been published in book form).

[arjue]

Well, The only thing I dont get, is all the praise for gore. Really, the only scene that can be called gory is eye gouging. Rest of the encounters is filmed in the fast motion, with people covered with fake blood. It just filmed that way so you can see only ferociosness of the infected, but not details of the mutilations. It works effectevly, but its not gory dismemberment like in good old Braindead, or Evil Dead films.

Do you remember the scene where the Zombies break into Jims parents house and his friend gets infected, so the chick goes nuts and hacks him to pieces? That is one of the most violent scenes I can remember from any movie ever.