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This movie has seemed to of influenced many things

posted 10 years ago by Skyrider01
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The most obvious influence this movie has had on something else is the tv series the Walking Dead. The pilot episode has Rick waking up in a totally abandoned hospital after waking up from a short coma with many many questions to ask about a world he struggles to now recognise, and no one immediately to answer them. Just like how Jim in this movie did exactly the same.

Another influence of course is the playstation 3 game The Last of Us. This game has highly aggressive fast running zombies in, which i think no other movie out there had before 28 Days Later. Also in The Last of Us, the protagonist has to protect a young girl who seems to have a natural immunity to being infected by zombie bites, just like the 2 children seemed to of had in 28 Weeks Later.

World War Z kind of uses the aggressive zombie idea, but adds more complexity to the infected (i cant say tho otherwise im giving spoilers away to World War Z)

What other movies, tv series or video games do you think this movie has had obvious influence on?

[–] BrunoAntony 10 years ago

No, to all if the above.

"The most obvious influence this movie has had on something else is the tv series the Walking Dead. The pilot episode has Rick waking up in a totally abandoned hospital after waking up from a short coma with many many questions to ask about a world he struggles to now recognise, and no one immediately to answer them. Just like how Jim in this movie did exactly the same."

That beginning was used in The Day Of The Triffids, and influenced 28 Days Later and The Walking Dead.

[–] HalBanksy 8 years ago

I'm fairly sure the film had some influence on The Last of Us. The music in the church scene specifically. And the scene where the group watch the horses was very reminiscent of the giraffe scene.

[–] Perspex 10 years ago

Alex Garland - who wrote the screenplay - called 'The Day of the Triffids', "the original inspiration for the story". This is mentioned by Danny Boyle in the DVD/BluRay Director's Commentary. The opening hospital scenes especially reminded me of the 1981 BBC TV version of 'Triffids'.

As for "fast" zombies...

Don't forget that Romero's original Night of the Living Dead had a relatively quick-moving zombie in the opening scene. NotLD was made thirty-four years before 28 Day Later. There's also plenty of 'speedy undead' in both 1980's Nightmare City and 1985's Return of the Living Dead.

[–] The_Film_Addict 10 years ago

Well, for one, zombies are now referred to as "infected" as opposed it being a supernatural phenomena.

"I wish I wasn't afraid all the time, but I am."
-V for Vendetta

[–] TalesfromTheCryptfan 10 years ago

They aren't zombies, they are infected humans with rage who don't eat humans.

"*beep* the law, i want meat"-Nightbreed.

[–] kurt7825 10 years ago

'28 Days Later' copied 'The Amateur Gentleman'. both movies take place in london for awhile but 'The Amateur Gentleman' did it first

[–] kurtolson_5 10 years ago

in resident evil apocalypse alice wakes up at a hospital also
but on the other hand she does that in the end of the first film so i suppose it doesnt count at all
so never mind

[–] E_nineteen 9 years ago

Derren Brown put a real human through a simulated apocalypse and the way he introduced him to the world was very similar. I think he may have been in a hospital gown, not naked (cruel!) or in scrubs, but I was surprised the man didn't get the reference, to be honest.

[–] T-eschberger 8 years ago

I'd say the film stylistically influenced further films more so than anything to do with the story.