I’m going to assume that was a prosthetic, but if not… god damn, good for him.
Prosthetics were required on every naked actor due to the actor playing Spike being underaged.
The actor who played Samson made a joke in an interview about his prosthesis being proportionately sized for a 6’8" (or 6’9"?) actor - maybe from one of the many Variety articles on the web.
Fun fact - in 28 Days … as Cillian Murphy staggers thru an abandoned apocalyptic London, you can see the traffic going backwards and forwards on the Westway in the distance.
I’m going to say open spoilers are OK from here out.
I saw it last night and loved it. It shared some of the same wild shifts in pace and tone with the first movie, but it somehow all works. The final skull placement was both touching and cheesy, and it should have invoked groans from the hipster audience I saw it with. But it fit perfectly with what we’d already seen of Dr. Kelson, and it was a cathartic release at that point that again, just worked.
Visually, it’s like no other movie I’ve seen. They didn’t just try to copy the filming style from the first.
And definitely unexpected, I laughed harder than I have in many comedy movies during the conversation about the Swede’s girlfriend. “What’s wrong with her face?”
That was perfect.
I saw the movie today. Normally, I avoid horror films but liked this one. “What’s wrong with her face?” was funny as was Spike’s unfamiliarity with the idea of delivery drivers and buying stuff online. (I was actually wondering how different life was elsewhere and that pretty much answered that question.) Also funny was, “Alas, poor Erik.”
One question, though. When Dr Kelson rescued Spike and his mother by paralyzing Samson, the alpha, why didn’t the doctor take the opportunity to kill him?
Kelson doesn’t view the infected, or at least the alphas, as monsters. I think he sees them as another life form to be respected and coexisted with, or at least as diseased and worthy of pity, not eradication. He gave the alpha a name, and he builds his temples to honor the dead.
I guess it’s possible he thinks they might be cured, although the sense I got was his relationship with them is more of a pacifist, “every life is sacred” kind of thing than some hope for their future.
Ok, thanks. Now I’m wondering about the sequel and how the title (presumably referring to his creation) plays into it.
Yes, he definitely had admiration for Samson. I got the impression that he’s had opportunities over the years to take him out and hasn’t, and has maybe used his blowdart on him before.
The 28 days/weeks/years later franchise just keeps having to have endless plot holes to justify how braindead zombies could take over the world.
Why didn’t European nations just send IFVs with NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) protections to the UK to hunt down the zombies? Why didn’t they send helicopters to provide air support all over the UK to hunt down zombies? Helicopters and A-10 warthogs could fly over, looking for zombies to kill. Why not air drop assault rifles and other weapons to the survivors so they don’t have to fight with bows and arrows? How come the zombies didn’t die of dehydration, starvation or random infections (infected scratches, etc) over the last 28 years? Where are the new, healthy zombies coming from? How does exposure to a drop of blood cause symptomatic responses within seconds? It takes far longer than that for a virus to infect cells and replicate. There are about 40 trillion cells in the human body, it takes time for a virus to infect a cell, replicate, then spread to new cells, etc.
I thought the plot holes in 28 weeks later were bad, but this is almost worse.
I’m shocked that you found plot holes in zombie movies.
Well zombies aren’t real, so you just have to take that as the premise. That’s not a “plot hole.”
We didn’t all go to Gudger college