Zombie films had fallen out of fashion by the onset of the millennium, but Danny Boyle brought the classic subgenre kicking and screaming back into the public consciousness in 2002 with 28 Days Later. Whilst the ‘infected’ in Boyle’s horror masterpiece are not technically zombies, they are essentially the same as the army of the undead first introduced in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. By moving away from shuffling, groaning corpses to sprinting and screaming lunatics crashing through your front room window, Boyle reinvigorated the genre and paved the way for the zombie revival.
28 Days Later is more than just a zombie film, however. Taking in the horrors of isolation, the illusion of society and the cruelty of mankind, or ‘people killing people’ as it is so succinctly described in the film, Boyle’s masterpiece revolutionised the humble zombie movie and turned it into something else entirely.
The end is extremely nigh. Buy a ticket if you dare.
15 May 25, 19:30
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