In what must have been a difficult series of shots to organize in the normally bustling British capital, we see our increasingly confused protagonist wandering around Piccadilly Circus and across London Bridge with not a soul in sight, until he has his first encounter with “the infected”- red-eyed, bloodthirsty subhuman creatures who roam the cities and countryside in packs, hunting down and savagely mauling any person they come across. Jim can’t understand what’s going on, and things only get worse when he emerges into an utterly deserted, silent London. The result is that rare breed, a film that is both smart and scary.Īfter a chilling prologue showing the origin of the plague, with misguided animal rights activists breaking into a Cambridge laboratory and releasing infected chimpanzees, we jump ahead twenty-eight days later, when Jim (Cillian Murphy), a mild-mannered courier, awakens from a coma from before the epidemic started to find the hospital deserted and in disarray. The “zombies” here are fast, vicious predators, the characters are three-dimensional individuals rather than cardboard zombie food, and the filmmakers supply a little depth alongside scaring the living crap out of the audience. This leads to it generally being considered a “zombie movie”, but this isn’t your daddy’s zombie movie, where the decaying walking dead somehow manage to get the petrified victims despite moving like molasses. One drop of infected blood and the victim is almost instantly driven into a berserk frenzy by uncontrollable rage. Director Danny Boyle’s and screenwriter Alex Garland’s vision of the end isn’t nuclear war or environmental disaster, but disease, specifically a genetically engineered virus known as “rage”. Hailed as one of the most frightening movies ever made, 28 Days Later is one in a long series of films addressing mankind’s fear of and fascination with the end- a catastrophic apocalypse that nearly wipes out the human race, but in a different vein than most. Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston,
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