Episode #804: 28 Days Later (W❤️M)
Added 2025-06-05 10:00:05 +0000 UTC“This is like, 25 years later almost and this thing still rips!” - Andrew
On this month’s We ❤️ Movies, we’re talking about Danny Boyle’s landmark horror masterpiece, 28 Days Later! How incredible is John Murphy’s score here? How surprising is it that the early-DV cinematography still holds up so well? How amazing are these performances from Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, and Brendan Gleeson? Is this Danny Boyle’s best movie? And how long are the guys lasting in this post-Rage Virus world, ya think? Two days? PLUS: Extensive soda talk!
28 Days Later stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Marvin Campbell, Luke Mably, Stuart McQuarrie, Ricci Harnett, Leo Bill, and Christopher Eccleston as Major West; directed by Danny Boyle.
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Comments
Your partner has that in common with Pam Beesley.
Eliza Oborne
2025-06-23 15:33:37 +0000 UTCTAINT! TAINT! TAINT! TAINT! MOVING UP AND DOWN AGAIN!
Adam Ray
2025-06-17 15:23:31 +0000 UTC“Lady with Rage” has been my ear worm for the week
Amanda P
2025-06-13 14:01:39 +0000 UTCSo 28 days, sequel was 28 weeks, why is the next one years and not months lol
Kureigu
2025-06-13 12:21:54 +0000 UTCDitto. LOVE that film
TheBestMike
2025-06-13 04:03:03 +0000 UTCDon't forget how AWESOME Brendan Gleeson is in Lake Placid
TheBestMike
2025-06-13 04:02:26 +0000 UTCAndrew not to be a stalker but you gave Men 3 1/2 stars and a heart on letterboxd.
Rhea
2025-06-12 20:40:57 +0000 UTC"Sir, could you please keep your blood in your eye sockets" lmfao that broke me
James Fetterhoff
2025-06-11 11:56:55 +0000 UTC"I'm going out scrounging. Pray for me" Door closes. Cue the sound of the theme to the movie Delirious and the sound of crisps being eaten.
Adam Ray
2025-06-10 13:45:58 +0000 UTCI came here to ask the gang "When the hell did y'all first see Braveheart?"
Adam Ray
2025-06-10 13:40:09 +0000 UTCRegarding the "Guy wakes up in a hospital to the apocalypse" thing, I recommend reading Day of the Triffids.
Sara Syd
2025-06-10 12:51:42 +0000 UTCMaybe I am misremembering it, however at the end I swear the pilot says that he doesn't see anything when asked, then they say "do you think he saw us". I imagine that the outside world is waiting for the infected to just die out. However I could be misremembering.
DMAC
2025-06-09 20:14:44 +0000 UTCFirst movie I paid to see three times in theaters
Jamie
2025-06-09 15:35:54 +0000 UTCLove the Dr. Who riffs. If you really want to dive deep into that culture before your England trip, check out 1975’s “Genesis of the Daleks” on YouTube.
Michael Nigrey
2025-06-09 00:22:13 +0000 UTCThe fact that they turned the book into a shitty movie instead of a mini-series really annoys me. Damn you, Brad Pitt!
Robert
2025-06-07 20:46:30 +0000 UTCLast time I checked on Boyle, he was making a Matrix musical. Yikes! Like Steve, I too would instantly kill myself, but then again, chasing Cillian Murphy around for a bite is very appealing.
Eren Keskin
2025-06-07 19:45:27 +0000 UTCThat was great 😆
Jaime Lee Ezell
2025-06-07 19:33:01 +0000 UTC28 Weeks Later was scary and well shot but that script was trash!
Tala Hobballah
2025-06-07 15:04:14 +0000 UTCVery scary and well shot but WRITTEN TERRIBLY
Tala Hobballah
2025-06-07 14:57:50 +0000 UTCOne of the best horror romances I'll never stop annoying people with it.
Tala Hobballah
2025-06-07 14:50:17 +0000 UTCYou guys debated the first movie you saw Brendan Gleeson in. It was definitely Braveheart.
Rhys Boyd-Farrell
2025-06-07 05:35:40 +0000 UTCChristopher Eccleston is also fucking amazing in The Leftovers (which I know you guys have mentioned before and didn't care for)
Vicky I
2025-06-06 20:58:34 +0000 UTCSince Eric shared his, my personal GTFAFM story: I'd just finished up in the washroom and hit up the pump top bottle of hand sanitizer we had, but a small corner had crusted in just the right way so that it shot a jet of hand sanitizer straight into my eye from a good two feet away. To this day, I still shut my eyes whenever I have to use one of them.
John Edwards
2025-06-06 20:53:47 +0000 UTCHe's good in that finale, but I totally get where you're coming from lol he's just playing himself at some point.
Ray
2025-06-06 18:47:08 +0000 UTCYes! He does have range and presence.
Supposing they brought
2025-06-06 18:22:26 +0000 UTCChris Eccleston created problems for himself when he quit Doctor Who about 5 episodes into filming Season 1.
Supposing they brought
2025-06-06 18:21:34 +0000 UTCIf you guys like zombie stuff that isn't schlock, I highly recommend the World War Z book. The movie is atrocious and is barely related. The book is written by Max Brooks from the perspective of survivors. The audio book is a full cast. Very good humanistic take on the genre.
Ray
2025-06-06 17:39:00 +0000 UTCOn the topic of hiding zombie bites, one of my favourite quotes: "People who don't return their shopping carts are the same people who would hide a zombie bite. Change my mind"
Emil Svensson
2025-06-06 13:20:03 +0000 UTCMy partner hates horror movies yet saw this in theatres. Why? Because she went to the theatre with her friend with no plan on what they were going to see, saw “28 DAYS Later” was playing and bought tickets. They spent the first 15 minutes wondering when Sandra Bullock was going to show up, before realising it wasn’t the romcom of similar name.
Craig
2025-06-06 10:45:59 +0000 UTCI know you know this already, but yous guys are so funny
Unicorn Trista
2025-06-06 05:14:28 +0000 UTCEric: "We need to do Armed and Dangerous. It'll get like 3 downloads." Well, I'm one of them.
Adam Shreve
2025-06-06 01:21:39 +0000 UTC“It’s Doctor Who, not Doctor Hwat!”
Robert
2025-06-06 00:41:14 +0000 UTCEric: How'd you manage to stay so fat? Andrew's character: "It's been 28 days goddamit! I lost 12 pounds!"
Local Man Loses Pants, Life (LMLPL)
2025-06-05 23:45:26 +0000 UTCJust about the Bond cum discussion call it Double Hole 7
Jon Wika
2025-06-05 23:36:09 +0000 UTCIf you're into gummies, You've got to try fruit pastels and jelly tots when you're in the UK 😙👌
Ben Formhals
2025-06-05 23:14:03 +0000 UTCI've owned the rare old blu-ray of this one and it felt like a real treasure during the time it was out of print and not streaming anywhere. It's one of those two-packs that includes 28 Weeks Later, which I believe it might've either Eric or Steve that said it's nearly as good as 28 Days Later - and I very much agree! Really underappreciated.
Busiris
2025-06-05 22:26:02 +0000 UTCIt's a little ironic that I could never really stand Doctor Who in anything but the smallest dose, but Jelly Babies are pretty fantastic. Just make sure they're not the vegetarian ones, which are just Jujubes and they suck.
MarkNM
2025-06-05 21:57:48 +0000 UTCHe'll live.
MarkNM
2025-06-05 21:51:24 +0000 UTCThe irony of this dropping right after all the doctor who news lol
Gary isabelle
2025-06-05 21:22:00 +0000 UTCI need Andrew to document his snack adventure
Dalton Barrett
2025-06-05 19:35:48 +0000 UTCSo, to explain - Lilt is basically pineapple and grapefruit soda - tango is a brand that makes orange soda (apple tango is nice) and other flavours.
Matthew Lloyd
2025-06-05 18:53:33 +0000 UTCEric is on fire this ep
Samuel McGuire
2025-06-05 18:53:07 +0000 UTCAdvice to Eric—when you’re in England, don’t tell the locals that you’ve never watched “Dr. Who.” That’s their “Star Trek over there.
Paul
2025-06-05 18:52:22 +0000 UTCI personally always found the scene in which Serena gives Hannah pills to try to numb her to her impending sexual assault as the one that really stuck with me. Maybe that's because we women are taught that SA is always a threat. Or maybe it's because SA is still used as warfare. Anyway, I know Eric thought Selena suddenly became a damsel in distress, but I felt she was staying strong, doing the best she could to protect Hannah. The whole scenario with the soldiers just emphasized that survivors of any apocalypse will have as much to fear from fellow survivors as they will any infected.
Rhonda Mccomb
2025-06-05 18:46:06 +0000 UTCOpinions are like assholes 🤷🏽♂️
Ray
2025-06-05 18:31:40 +0000 UTCI saw Christopher Eccleston in this before I watched doctor who and boy was I surprised. He genuinely has incredible range and presence. As a film study, this movie is incredible, and it embodies the allegories made all the time about zombies. When it comes down to it, we are the monsters.
Ray
2025-06-05 18:29:51 +0000 UTCI always felt the monkey rescue detracts from the movie. Just open with “28 Days Later” and leave the start mysterious
Rod
2025-06-05 18:05:33 +0000 UTCOh, nice! Thanks for the rec. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-06-05 17:43:24 +0000 UTCOh, hell yeah. Now we're talkin'! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-06-05 17:42:57 +0000 UTCI nearly hyperventilated when the guys started talking about Cillian Murphys dick in the style of the 28 years trailer.
Matthew Lloyd
2025-06-05 17:37:27 +0000 UTCEven though y'all have some BAD takes on Boyle's filmography (everything from 28DY through T2 has been a banger with the exception of Trance which is just weird), this is worth a listen alone JUST for the bits on the voice-over from the 28 Years Later trailer....BLOODY BRILLIANT! 😆
Geoff Gershon
2025-06-05 17:26:06 +0000 UTCDefinitely need to pump that number up. I rewatched A.I. the other day and him playing a robot-torturing carny is enough to make it a Stay Tuned.
profondo robbo
2025-06-05 17:05:24 +0000 UTCAnswer for Steve! You asked if this was the first Brendan Gleeson movie covered by WHM and it's not, it's the 5th: he was in The Raven (the John Cusack as Poe one), The Village, Mission: Impossible 2 and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Firementary as well
Felipe Sobreiro
2025-06-05 16:31:12 +0000 UTCLove the violent femmes reference!!!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2025-06-05 15:29:56 +0000 UTCI remember the first time I saw this film. It was during my freshman year of college in a film course in 2006. My biggest takeaway was the audible gasp from the girls in my class seeing Cillian’s dong on the screen. I don’t know if the gasp was out of shock or excitement. Since we were all 18-19 year olds, but I am fairly certain that it might have been the first time some saw one on the screen.
TJ Gaines
2025-06-05 15:11:41 +0000 UTCAndrew when you go to England be on the look out for Pinballs they are amazing. Like a little round candy coated Starburst. Super addictive.
Bible Black
2025-06-05 15:06:47 +0000 UTCI was crying laughing during the discussion of Brendan Gleeson's mountainous shit pile.
Johnny Collins
2025-06-05 15:01:41 +0000 UTCThis pride month I’m finally willing to say it load and proud, I love Men (2022)!
Bradley Davis
2025-06-05 14:56:21 +0000 UTCKnow what they were doing to those monkeys at the lab—they were pumping them full of Semenax—that’s what created the rage virus. Fact.
Paul
2025-06-05 14:46:43 +0000 UTCSpeaking of UK snack, when you guys get there I highly recommend Jaffa Cakes, the king of UK snack cakes
Aaron Dowler
2025-06-05 14:39:23 +0000 UTCIf is a huge WHM Sin, but there was a comic series that explains how they developed the virus and why.
Matt Watterson
2025-06-05 14:38:33 +0000 UTCMan, with that scene with Colonel West telling Jim what his plan was - if there was EVER a time to just play it cool and go along to sneak out later that was it.
Matt Watterson
2025-06-05 14:37:56 +0000 UTCI don’t think I’ve Shazammed as many times during a movie as I did re-watching this. All the music in the movie is fantastic.
RJ Cunningham
2025-06-05 14:27:58 +0000 UTCONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER
SpayukaTTV
2025-06-05 14:22:58 +0000 UTCThe fact there is no “fuck” in that scene disappointed me to no end
RJ Cunningham
2025-06-05 13:38:35 +0000 UTC“GETTFAWAYFROMME!”
Paul
2025-06-05 13:25:35 +0000 UTCI thought we’ve all been on the Gleeson train since Braveheart?
RJ Cunningham
2025-06-05 13:20:23 +0000 UTCDo yourself a favor and relisten to previous WHM episode of “Yesterday” with this. Great companion episode.
James
2025-06-05 13:10:38 +0000 UTCI rewatched it a bit ago and I found the opening with the monkey to be pretty silly, but the rest of the movie is great and worth your time IMO. It's important to set the stage and it really couldn't be left out, but in a worse movie I think we would hear more about how the first scene is a little cheesy and dumb
Smaug
2025-06-05 12:49:39 +0000 UTCYou know that irritating splash of coffee you get from a sip lid when you laugh or get distracted, and you improperly disengage? You made me do that.
MarkNM
2025-06-05 12:37:21 +0000 UTCIn my head canon, the "Where’s Your Head At" video by Basement Jaxx is a prequel to 28 Days Later and it all makes sense.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-06-05 12:37:20 +0000 UTCMasterpiece? I think I only got through about 15 minutes of this film back when it first came out. Maybe I'll give it a rewatch before listening to the episode
John Locke
2025-06-05 12:24:33 +0000 UTCNope. 28 Weeks Later is an absolutely WRETCHED film. I got conned into re-watching after hearing a bunch of people say it was "good actually". Nope nope nope, that movie is garbage!
Comrade Trash Panda
2025-06-05 12:03:49 +0000 UTCI always thought the RAGE virus part of this was kind of stupid, love the movie, but a zombie infection started by a monkey who got it from watching violence on tv? OK buddy, sure. I get the subtext of what it's about... still dumb though.
Purple Roundy
2025-06-05 11:21:32 +0000 UTCSo why infect chimps with rage? They're pretty pissed off already. Give me a tranq gun and a zoo pass and I can get you an angry chimp by the end of the day.
Michael Daniels
2025-06-05 11:12:59 +0000 UTCscariest zombies in cinema and it isn't even close
Alex Murica
2025-06-05 10:34:05 +0000 UTCGod I love Brendan Gleeson. Always great in whatever it is he's doing.
Graeme Hill
2025-06-05 10:32:06 +0000 UTC"Longer than a heartbeat" has to be one of the best endings I've ever seen in a movie
Tim O'
2025-06-05 10:10:23 +0000 UTCGETHUFUCKAWAYFROMMEEEEEE
Marty TC (child-sized Cardassian)
2025-06-05 10:07:59 +0000 UTCYes sir!!
Philly
2025-06-05 10:05:06 +0000 UTC
