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How ‘28 Years Later’ Shot Those Bloody Zombie Kills and the Terrifying Alpha Chase on a Soundstage: ‘It Was Pretty Scary’
'28 Years Later' director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle talks shooting the film on a soundstage, including the alpha chase and zombie kills.
In the film, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike ( Alfie Williams) have headed to the mainland and already encountered the infected, including the evolved variant known as The Alpha. In filming the chase itself, Dod Mantle and Boyle wanted to travel at speed through the water with Jamie and Spike, while the Alpha was close behind. We had the bar cam, which is the array of iPhones, also on the technocrane, which is a pretty savage decision, because that’s moving at speed, wrapped around the head of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, or the Alpha.
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