I Know What I'm Seeing This Weekend

For some reason, for a good long while I hadn't been able to muster much enthusiasm about 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Danny Boyle's terrific 2003 film. I suppose it was the auteurist in me turned off by the fact that Boyle was not directing this time around, and that the man he handed the reins to, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, was unfamiliar to me. But slowly, over the past couple of weeks, I've felt stirrings inside me that hey, maybe I'm being unfairly dismissive. And then I skim some reviews today and, well, I'm sold, bring on the infecteds (that's what these not-quite-zombies go by here). From NYT:

"28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques."

Anybody else gonna check it out?

ETA And here's a good interview with the director, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, at MTV's Movie Blog.
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