Good Zombie Flick Some Spoilers

Rating: 8/10 (26 March 2004)

I just finished watching this movie and thought it was a pretty good zombie flick. I did not compare it to the original and did not find myself thinking of the original while watching this one. IMHO it is a vastly different movie, which made it not tread on the original so...
Spoilers
There are some very disturbing images in this movie for me, two in particular that will stay with me for a few days. The first is when the female lead, Ana played by Sarah Polly, gets in her car and is escaping her rabid husband. As she drives through her shattered neighborhood we see several zombie attacks on people who are mild shock at what they are seeing around them. This really bothered me for some reason. Shortly after this she pulls up behind a wrecked school bus and through the window of the bus we see two kid zombies attacking another kid, looks like a girl and she is fighting for her life but you know she is going to die. This was another image that really bothered me.
There were some really cool things too, like the van/car accident you see from above, really well done! The zombies were well done and you get to see some interesting looking creature effects. There is not the variations like we have seen in the original but, zombie clowns are a little weird anyway :-) The zombies move fast here as in 28 days later and this makes them a much tougher monster than if they were slower. I liked this but my friend who I saw the movie with did not, he argued for the slower zombie to buid drama. I liked the camera work, particularly when they went to the grainy shots or with the action shots. It made me feel much closer to the action and added to the 'holy crap they are everywhere' feeling of the movie.

Overall I would argue that if you like horror movies then you will enjoy this one. I also really enjoyed the soundtrack.