28 Days Later

28 Days Later

Released - 2002
Genre - Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director - Danny Boyle
Starring - Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston, Naomie Harris

28 Days Later is a modern zombie flick which effortlessly rises above the standard Hollywood teen horror fare. Anyone longing for a modern answer to the classic Romero trilogy of the dead need look no further than this. A nasty virus has been unleashed on society and just 28 days later the country is in a desperate state, most people have been killed or succumbed to the virus which locks the victim into an uncontrollable murderous rage. A handful of survivors battle to find some kind of respite from the terrifying hordes but the remaining humans are just as dangerous as the zombies.

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Gore - there is plenty of brutal gore here with machete action and people bleeding from every orifice

Zombies - strictly speaking these are't zombies they are infected, they still like to eat people but they are fast and vicious rather than slow and shambling