Horror: Zombie - Similar films that could help us out for our sequence

What elements from films could we use?

28 Days Later

28 Days Later is a film which is used in a different manner to most, this film was directed by Danny Boyle and his intentions were to make this film through an accidental spread of a deadly virus. This was introduced in a good way as a man woke up in a hospital from a coma. This gave you his perspective and the meaning used here was how how people portrayed him. 

The relevance to this than to our horror zombie genre was that the reviews talked about how Danny Boyle put a lot of detail into how zombies would be portrayed if they were real. A reviewer talked about how the realism inside this movie created an intention which was unlike any other, being minimalistic with many mise-en-scene elements made it better off than being over complicated.

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It's true that sometimes minimalism can be more effective than overblown bravado, and it's definitely true for this movie. It's the scenes of complete silence which get to you the most; an entire metropolis empty. The grainy picture serves to add a documentary-style quality to the film, which makes the whole situation seem almost too real to bear. Definitely a wise choice to film this on digital video.

This was interpreted well enough that this should be a good way to make our sequence better, making sure we don’t go too complicated with the research we put into the environment, because as you can tell from watching it, they just use London, unchanged, as the setting for the external scenes. 

World War Z

This film was created through a lot more elements, using entire cities for some scenes and even using key features of some countries, like the Jerusalem wall. This World War Z is fondly created off a government conflict triumph of trying to contain a virus through pretending that their is a war with another country. The containing of the virus was by letting everyone believe their isn’t one and that the war was the thing distracting everyone. 

I looked at reviews in which people talked about on IMdB.com and people talked about the setting in which they used, it was very opinionated as one person talked about how the movie was slightly ruined by the effort put into it.

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I was also surprised at how cheap this movie looked. This film cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, but it's hard to see where it all went on the screen. Swarms of zombies look very fake and nonthreatening, and in some cases individual zombies are computer animated, which gave me bad flashbacks to I Am Legend's awful CGI overload. Aside from the opening scenes in Philadelphia and the middle act in Jerusalem, there are no big outdoor sets.