One of the most scary films of the year, 28 years laterUsed iPhones to film key scenes.
Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland meet almost 28 years after their revolutionary Film 2002 28 days laterOffering a gloriously horrible cinematographic experience in their latest film.
Review: ’28 years later ‘is a triumphant return, one of the most scary films of the year
The director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle is also back, whose use of defined digital camcorders 28 days later. Here, Boyle and Mantle use a multitude of cameras, including 20 adapted iPhone 15S, all deployed to capture the appearance of the large Boyle Boyle screen. But what effect does it produce in 28 years laterAnd what does that mean for the actors in front of the many goals?
Kristy Puchko, Mashable entertainment editor, sat with Boyle for Mashable’s Say more Podcast, and the British editor Shannon Connellan spoke to 28 years later Stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Alfie Williams to understand more about the production of a major horror film using iphones.
“When someone puts a very close iPhone, it’s a bit intrusive. You feel a little vulnerable, and you cannot hide. There is a quality that shows everything, and that meant that we had to feel very present in the moment,” said Taylor-Johnson. “You got used to it very quickly, and it became an environment so great to get around.”
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“Technology has moved on to something else, and we have thought that we have to move on and yet we want to respect this instinct which is to use the ordinary in one way or another. It therefore has the impression that it is something that comes from where it is about history. And of course, we have all the phones now, so we have decided to use them,” said Boyle.
“They are light, they now record at 4K, but they have allowed us to visit places, distant places, in the United Kingdom, with a very light imprint,” he adds. “But we used a lot of cameras. We have not only used iPhones … There is a red sequence that used this special Panasonic camera, the EU123. We used drones, which use 6K cameras. And we unify everything with a format, with a 2.76: 1, which is a width format, which you can do with all these cameras.”
Regarding the newcomer for adolescents Williams, who plays Spike, 12, the experience of making films on iPhone is standard enough for his generation. “It was normal for me,” he said.
28 years later Now play in theaters. 28 years later: the bone temple is scheduled for theatrical release on January 16, 2026.
