The Pearl Harbour of Horror Stories...

Rating: 3/10 (6 January 2008)

This being one of my all time favourite sci-fi/horror novels, I was supremely disappointed to see how the makers of this film missed the point so completely and blatantly. The features that made the novel just so amazing are just plain not there, such as the idea that the vampires were sentient and had their own society, Neville really being the last man on earth, the idea that there is no cure because the vampires are NOT virus or infection sufferers, and the poignant and profound ending wherein we see the vampires' society takes over the world, leaving Neville as what vampires are to us, a legend, and something to be feared that must be destroyed. Instead of all this genius, originality and deep meaning we were shown in the novel, we instead get 28 Days Later... In New York. The film, while certainly action packed and exciting, had NOTHING to do with the original novel and this to anyone who has read the novel, will be a great disappointment. This should have been 28 Days Later 3, because it bears about as much resemblance to I Am Legend as it does to Bambi.