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carbon copy of 28 days later


If anyone remmbers this far back, in the seventies and eighties, movies would be copied, and mimicked right down to characters and plots, with sublte details changed, such as (night of the lviing dead = hell rats of the lviing dead), (zombie creeping flesh = dawn of the dead), in this style, severed is the copy of 28 days later. notice the grainy camerawork, along with the accidental zombification of one of th cast members. and the treacherous msitrust of the military, did anyone else notice this.

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I've seen countless direct-to-video carbon copies of popular movies for years.

It's like a game you could play with your buddies:

- Tyler arrives, doesn't know what's going on; Jim awakens, doesn't know what's going on
- Red stuff instantly turns people into murderous zombies; Stuff in blood instantly turns people into raged murderers
- Tyler is taken into a small shack with a few other survivors; Jim is taken into a small store with two other survivors
- The crew makes their way out of the camp and gets shot at, then rescued; Jim and company almost get shot at, then rescued
- Crew gets taken in by a makeshift camp full of hotheads and wackos; Jim and company are taken in by a makeshift base full of hotheads and wackos;
- Tyler gets some action; Jim almost gets some action, but it's too soon
- Crazy Ramon is disregarded, later killed; Slighty-crazy Sergeant Farrell is disregarded, later killed
- Anderson wants some action; Soldiers want some, too.
- Carter lets zombies into the camp; Jim leads infected into base
- Blood sprays everywhere; Blood sprays everywhere
- 28 Days Later is good; Severed is... uh...

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Contains Spoilers for 28 days Later and Severed

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Activists are the cause of the virus spreading

In Severed, the woods is quarantine. In 28 Days Later ..the UK is quarantine.

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yeah, this movie was not even a good plot ripoff, it totally sucked, the main female character was quite hot though, not enough to salvage the crappy movie.

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yep a rip off of 28 days later i bought it on a movie channel for 3 dollars last night after seeing it i wish i haden't the camera angle actually made me sick i could almost make a beter movie than this.

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i would rather watch golf than see this snoozefestival again

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In addition, the female lead looked almost exactly like the female animal rights activist at the very beginning of 28 Days Later. Admittedly, it's a small point, but still. Funny.

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very true, but the lead in severed was extremely hot.

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the scene where the older black man...i think his name was mack...turns is pretty much a carbon copy of the scene where the father turns in 28 days later, even down to the dramatic violin music...another thing, the soundtrack was clearly going for that creepy ambient synthesizer music, just like 28 days later. this film is such a waste of time. although, to be fair, the part where a character lets a ton of zombies into the "fortress" was first done in day of the dead....also, that whole gate that they lift to let zombies in so they can uh, do target practice, is lifted straight from day of the dead as well.

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it was still a great movie but in 28 days later there is a part when the guy letsin all the zombies into the mansion,well severed copied that too,But so what there arent alot of varietys in zombie movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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if you think this was a great movie... you should be castrated before you poison future generations

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pretty much from teh moment the group of survivors in the camp whatever came into the picture i knew it was ripping 28 days later off. then at the end it was confirmed. this does not discount the fact that 28 days later rips off most of romero's films. btw 28 days later ain't a zombie film. they're not dead,

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