The films are great. However, the first DVD is single-layer and has a terribly poor resolution. The second DVD is fine.

two of the greatest horror films ever, plenty of gore , action and intensity. jam packed with action this is a definate bargain. a must see!!

There is really, from my point of view, very little to say about these two modern-day 'zombie-esque' apocalyptic thrillers apart from simply saying that they are both utterly brilliant!

You are in for a white-knuckle, rollercoaster ride from minute one of each, and whilst 28WL has a somewhat different, more Hollywood-esque feel to it, it is no less engaging and entertaining in its own unique way.

I am now eagerly awaiting 28 Months Later. I understand that Danny Boyle has it underway, and that we MAY possibly see the outstanding Cillian Murphy and Brenda Gleeson reprise their 28DL roles for the third (doubtless equally amazing) instalment.

I hope the rumours are true, because the chemistry between those two really played a vital role in making the original movie such a big hit.

So treat yourself to these two little gems of sci-fi horror. You will not be disappointed.

Mark C. Edwards

loved the first, loved the second. Brill stuff, Enough said! get it, brill movies :)

this is great peace of kit for any horror fan and i truly enjoyed watching both these films. Great from play again thanks must have boxset!
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Mark

Both films are so amazing and so original if you like the whole post apocalyptic idea then this is definately for you. The actors are very good and action scenes a master piece.

I watched the first film on a quiet night with nothing to do with my mum. I wasn't expecting my mum to agree to putting it on.
I didn't move. She didn't move. It was only at the end when she needed the loo so desperately she just had to leave, or perhaps she was too scared to watch the rest. But it was fabulous. Lots of blood, lots of good looking people.

The second film, 28 weeks later, my mum just wouldn't watch because she'd seen the first one and couldn't bear it. So I watched it with my boyfriend and for weeks later I was constantly asking questions about the ending to anyone that would listen. 'So has it finished?' 'Is that the end?' 'What just happened?'
Even now I can still scare my boyfriend with ketchup down my mouth and crazy running. mwahahaa.

Just keep away from paying even a pound or two extra for the boring cash-in follow-up and stick with the original film alone.

What more can I say than the follow-up is just what you come to expect in a follow-up? There's a poor storyline, it's boring, it's a franchise cash-in, in fact.

As if that isn't bad enough, the frequent use of a hand-held, shaky camera sorely irritates and tests the patience, whilst the use of the green-blue hued colour for external shots is little more pleasing on the eye.

Avoid the follow-up at all costs, unless you like to have suffering imposed on you or want to waste an hour and a half of your life being bored out of your skull. Yes it really is that bad. It isn't even worth adding to your collection at the slight extra cost of the 2 disc package. Stick with the original.

28 days later So it's a zombie film?
Not Quite
I cannot do justice to this film with words alone, so I will tell you instead of what I did when I watched this film.
I didn't move.
Neither did the people who watch it with me.
When I walked home, I did so in the middle of the road, just to be sure that nothing could dive out of the shadows at me.
This film is masterful, there is no other way of putting it, I lived in london at the time of seeing it, and the opening scenes of the film are amongst the most powerful ever seen of a british film, the desolation, isolation, and pure mental trauma of a world gone wrong are all there to be seen. I note that some of the other reviewers note that it's a little gory, and yes, in some places, it is, but it's all necessary, some of the set pieces were a little overdone, but this does not detract from the enjoyment of the film in general.

Simply put, 28 days later is what Resident Evil _should_ have been, it's slick, sharp, and so involving that the people in the cinema I saw it at were screaming at the screen, a phenomenon I've not experienced since the Alien Films.

Get it, watch it at a friends house with the lights turned off, then _try_ to walk home by yourself.........28 Weeks Later is a sequel to Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, which was a refreshing zombie film that took itself very seriously and arguably reinvigorated the sub-genre for bloodthirsty audiences around the world...I consider myself among them. Danny Boyle steps back as director but his influence is intact as he produces this film. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a Spanish filmmaker directs this sequel but maintains many of the stylistic standards of the first film. Like 28 Days Later the cinematography is digital, and it is in 35mm format with some shaky camera work and some very quick edits. I have to admit that at times the attack scenes seemed a little over-stylized and one scene was derivative enough from the Blair Witch Project that it came off as an intentional tribute. Not to say that bothers me much, I'm just pointing it out.

The first film was about a virus called "Rage" that quickly turns it's victims into fast-moving cannibals that are a bit more real and scary than the mindless traditional zombies of George Romero's films. After a while the first film ended with all the infected people starving to death. The second film starts off with a thorough American occupation of London that works to contain and prevent another outbreak while at the same time re-introducing British civilians. We are then introduced to a family of characters, some of which have a genetic abnormality that allows them to remain healthy with the virus. They are un-effected carriers of "Rage". This of course leads to another outbreak in the setting of a military occupied London. And so we sit back and watch as the zombified shenanigans ensue.

28 Weeks Later is extremely violent but it's even more brutal than many films of this sub-genre because it takes itself so seriously and it actually works effectively for that. We are introduced to several would-be protagonists, two of which are deeply riddled with guilt and that makes the characters three-dimensional which allows us to actually care about them. But by the same token, the movie doesn't pull punches and the zombies get their way more often than not. That means the violent tone in general was a bit more real for me. There is also an incredibly gory sequence that is identical to a scene in Planet Terror, the first feature in the recent collaboration Grindhouse. It's interesting to compare the two scenes, because in Planet Terror the scene is so amusing and slapsticky while essentially the same scene here in 28 Weeks

Prepare for two of the best British horror films in the past 20 years. After the Rage virus Decimates England, turning people into zombie like canibals that are in constant state of Rage. The survivors do anything they can to survive.
28 DAYS LATER is the best of the two movies, as nothing can compare to the scenes of a empty London, and the first shocks of the Rage filled victims. This is Director Danny Boils best film todate.
*****
28 WEEKS LATER is also excellent, but lacks the power of the first movie. But also adds with some brilliant action scenes, as in the fire bombing of London.
****
Both films are very intelligent, and leave you wanting the third chapter.
A brilliant Box-set that goes straight for your jugular with a blast of neve shredding adrenaline.
Any Horror fan must buy these classic movies Now !