one of last year 8 film to die for be a new york lensed tale of a zombie/28 day later tale of biological horror set in new york low east side a some disease spread by rat bite and later people bite turns people in hungry beast . clearly film in new york in real location this film feel like new york . it live and breaths the location it be film in way that big budget film never do . the street scene be apparently film on the sly and the result be a real sense of the city where thing be really happen . this be new york for real . the film start off with a great deal of character building ( hey real character in a horror movie what a novel idea ) that perhaps go on a bit too long . still it set everyone up so nicely that when then infect begin to assault the people we have come to know we be more than horrify and we be sadden by their fate . i do not know when it be the last time i be choke up at a horror film . to be honest there maybe a bit too much of these building scene since the film seem to slow down too much around the half hour mark . thing turn up a few notch once the infection spread and manhattan be seal off . how will our hero survive . once thing begin to heat up the film become a series of sequence that play very real a the infected begin to beat and bash their way into the building and apartment . there be many stunning image that seem to have raise the bar of film like this for their stark sense of realism and in your face nature . most of the second half of the film be dynamite a everyone try to figure out whats go on and how to survive . i really like this film a great deal . grant it not perfect and the film do take too long to start up and it sometimes too close to the action and a if the cinematographer do not realize how some of the up close fast moving image would look on a big screen and but it certainly be worth see . 6 . 5 to positive .