’28 Years Later’ is Bringing New, Scarier Contaminated to the Get together

Sony’s 28 Years Later isn’t simply reintroducing audiences to the sequence’ devastating post-apocalypse, it’s additionally bringing some new horrors alongside for the trip.

In an interview with IGN, director Danny Boyle teased the Contaminated have gained some new tips since their final sighting in 28 Weeks Later. Together with the everyday, fast-running ones that’ve been everywhere in the advertising and marketing, some have “mutated” to outlive on this new setting. Therefore, the “Sluggish-lows,” so named as a result of they “dangle about low degree” and don’t do working of any type. Regardless of their lack of pace Boyle “[doesn’t] advise messing with them.”

In the event you’ve performed video video games with zombies, you already know it’s by no means only one variant lurking round. Together with the Sluggish-lows, 28 Years Later will introduce Beserker and Alpha sorts that are stronger than the common Contaminated and might need some intelligence buried inside their Rage Virus-addled minds. On a technical degree, Boyle mentioned the workforce typically shot the Contaminated “in a brittle, nearly unreliable means” much like how they dealt with the primary movie. However the brand new undead get some extra prospers, like Sluggish-low actors have cameras hooked up to them to boost viewers worry, or some sequences with particular Contaminated requiring 20 iPhones to concurrently file as a way to create “a poor man’s bullet time.”

The brand new Contaminated additionally lend themselves to 28 Years’ images. For you format sickos, Boyle additionally instructed IGN the movie was shot on widescreen to duplicate the primary film’s “unease…the pace and the speed, the visceral [aspect] of the best way the contaminated have been depicted. In the event you’re on a widescreen format, they may very well be anyplace… you need to maintain scanning, trying round for them, actually.”

28 Years Later hits theaters on June 20.

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