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There will be a nice balanced conversation about the franchise to date with Brian over at Zombpocalypse and Michael. There will also be a Michael and Darren catch up that will cover Transit 17 (now equal worst scoring with Night of the Flatulating Dead) and ChatGPT's worst zombie movie of all time Zombie Nightmare with Adam West and Shawn Levy. But that is not this episode.

In sunny Corfu I went to see the much anticipated 28 Years Later, the sequel we have been waiting 18 years for, and in some quarters 23 years for. I did like it. But I am not one of the foaming about the mouth crack babies giving it 10/10 or 5/5 stars. It is definitely not in that territory. Even with the most basic understanding of what a comparison is this is a poor cousin of 28 Days, arguably the best zombie movie ever made (sorry Ken Foree, yours is my second), but still some people out there are going bananas. Others poopood it. They didn't like it at all. And I did like it. But given the sheer volume of movies we see, this isn't up there for me.

What I liked? I think the main characters were all superb, and a special shout out to Alfie Williams in his debut as Spike. I think some of the action sequences were great and what we needed. We needed the start, and the farm, the Happy Eater and the train. The Happy Eater was a great bit of nostalgia for me.

Erik was very funny. But his death was obvious, stupid, and taken from Predator.

I really didn't like all the dream sequences. There was a lot of them and they were out of keeping with the first two movies. I didn't like the filler of the Laurence Olivier movie being used. The black and white imagery. The Kipling. Again out of step with Days and Weeks. I could see the variants, the bloater and alpha mutations, but it felt 1. stolen, and 2. the Jurassic Park thing... we had a T-Rex in the first movie, now we need something bigger and better and not in keeping. The alphas were good, just not original. And you don't need variants. Zombies are zombies. The thing about zombies, whether running infected or slow shufflers if there is a whole mass of them and they get you by sheer volume.

And then there is a somersaulting cult of ninjas dedicated to a massive pedophile. The mighty morphing power pedoes. Given the rage virus was spread by bodily fluids, how are they chopping up infected sending blood everywhere? Makes no sense.

That being said, I still liked it, it was still a good movie. It wasn't as bad as some made out and it isn't as good as many are making out. I think it is a solid movie but out of keeping with the other two. My least favourite of the franchise and a 6.5/10 for me. Harsh? Well it isn't 10/10 either.