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I was expecting this question. ;-) To be frank, while 27DL is intellectually more compelling, I find 28WL more exciting and shocking, strictly from the point of view of tension and adrenaline. The escape from London, for example, or the first moments of the new outbreak, are scenes that have stayed glued to my retina since I first saw them. Even the opening scene of the film rendered me stone-cold: I froze like a corpse. The horror stays strong in that film, from the first to the last scene, with only a temporary break in-between. 28DL addresses several themes; it discusses our fear of a societal collapse in almost all of its aspects and it partially relies on metaphor and satire for that. 28WL does so to a far lesser extent. That film is purely focused on survival horror, on providing a thrill-ride. The first film wants us to do some soul-searching, hard thinking and philosophizing. The second film basically wants us to just soak in the adrenaline. I think 28DL is the better film, but 28WL raises my pulse, and the tension junky in me prefers the latter for that reason alone.
I hope that makes sense. ;-)
28 Days Later is one of my favourites. Also because it was the first I saw and made me interested in those movies. The empty Westminster Bridge is iconic. And Gleeson great as always.
28 weeks is also very good. I never forgot the moment where they start to shoot everyone running out...not knowing who was infected...and the beginning is intense.
Dawn of the Dead 2004 was also a cool flick.
And I never forgot the guy with the hayfork from the movie "The Crazies". I loved this film. Definitely in the top 5 for me and sadly not as famous as it should be.
Thanks to this thread I watched Train to Busan last year. Also very good.
And my favourite movie with zombies: Shaun of the Dead :)
Not yet. Any good?
I would say that it couldn't be worse than the last film, but I said that last time...
I gotta say, I've seen way worse from this series. It felt fresh (despite the meta/legacy horror angle most of these films take on lately that's tiring) in some respects, the moments of practical gore were very sweet, the pacing worked well with the shorter runtime and it had some solid moments throughout. It still had its issues and isn't the best thing ever but far and away the best installment since the 2003 remake.
I thought my genuine level of pessimism and being underwhelmed with the marketing was the final nail in the coffin before I even started watching, but all in all, definitely not too bad. I had a lot of fun with it!
And indeed, despite the laziness of the title, it certainly delivers in the "massacre" department.
It'll also be interesting to see how it does, but I'm not really sure how it works with Netflix.
I think for them, it’s all about viewership after the first few weeks of release. I’ve seen a lot of people reviewing and discussing it, bad reviews aside.
This. The bloodshed begins barely 20 minutes in. It’s very brisk.
Yes, and given the film's concept, I'd say brisk is the only way to fly. I rather have this than a protracted mixture of tension and tedious filler material.
One more thing, and I know this is usually a "bad" thing, but the film hints at certain themes early on, yet constantly defies expectations by not really addressing them in any way. A negative review might say that the film tries to talk about things but fails miserably at doing so; I myself, in a more positive review, would rather say that the film just lets things happen and takes them for granted without lecturing us. It's refreshing to see a film that prepares us for debates on
and then just shrugs it off by keeping the story going. Its central message may actually be that when Leatherface launches himself at us,
Thwarting expectations is what Alvarez is good at, so yeah, the more I think about this film, the more I like it. It's refreshing to see another TCM that I can actually enjoy, for the first time in a decade-and-a-half.
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
2. Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
5. Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
***7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)***
8. Leatherface (2017)
9. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)
Oh, and here's my own ranking:
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)
6. Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
8. Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
9. Leatherface (2017)
You might be surprised by my positioning of The Next Generation, but I think it's more to do with it being a guilty pleasure of mine. I laugh at that film so much that I'm much more entertained by that than the any of the other sequels, and those sequels are to blame for the downward slope this franchise goes on. I don't need to explain the bottom two haha :D