Watch '28 Days Later' in One Minute, in One Take

Sometimes making your way through an entire major motion picture can be so very trying. Or maybe all you really want is a refresher on how someone like Forrest Gump went from zero to hero over the course of a two hour-plus feature film. Enter the "One Minute" film, as perfected by a group of UK film students who've amassed a growing fan following on YouTube. Their latest offering: "28 Days Later in One Minute, in One Take." Watch it after the jump – it'll only take 60 seconds of your life!

It all started last spring, when a group of British film students at the University of York shot a condensed (and dare I say it? More watchable) version of Forrest Gump for a one-minute film competition. When "Forrest Gump in One Minute, in One Take" blew up on YouTube, the group – comprised of members of the campus film making society -- discovered there might be something to this 60-second movie business. A few months later "Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2 in One Minute" followed, a virtuoso piece of carefully plotted choreography that manages to tell the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's two-flick vengeance tale in much, much less time.

After the jump, watch "28 Days Later in One Minute, in One Take."

This week, de facto group leader Will Tribble uploaded the latest film to YouTube, with co-director, co-writer, co-editor, and co-prop making credits to Laura Archer, Joe Burgess, and Rocco Sulkin, and a shout out to the Sutton Film Making Society. Watch below as the filmmakers and over a dozen of their friends reenact 28 Days Later from start to finish using cardboard props, DIY ingenuity, and the length of a football field.




And just for funsies, check out "Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 in One Minute" and "Forrest Gump in One Minute":






So, armchair critics, what do you think? We can't wait for more one minute flicks from these guys and gals – and goodness knows there are plenty of films we don't need to sit through in their entirety ever again. If you enjoyed these one minute films, give a hearty congratulations to new film school grad Will Tribble, who's tracking all the one minute film making here on his blog!