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That Terrifying Chant in ’28 Years Later’: Danny Boyle Explains How a 110-Year-Old Recording Came to Define the Film
That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle explains why it's there.
When the first trailer arrived for “28 Years Later,” the third installment in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s masterful “28 Days Later” series of horror films, it was scary, filled with gruesome images of zombies and a dystopian world. It is a dramatic reading that starts off militaristic as the initial lines set the scene, but his voice is patently hysterical by the end, even as it follows the lock-step rhythm of the first five syllables: Unusually for something featured so prominently in a trailer, the poem plays a very small, although foreboding, role in the film — buttressed with an eerie bass synthesizer, it soundtracks Spike and his father walking to the mainland, which is thick with infected zombies, and presumably conveys that they’re marching to war.
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