150 Word Review: '28 Years Later' (2025)
Memento mori
28 Days Later spliced multiple genres into one: pandemics, zombies, post-apocalypses. In 28 Years Later, the strain has mutated. England is quarantined, a forbidden zone infested with humans infected by a virus that turns them into mindless berserkers who vomit toxic blood. They run around the woods at night naked, like Satanic hippies. Meanwhile, a small community of humans lives safely on an island off the coast.
Director Danny Boyle and co-writer Alex Garland are on fire. Boyle, especially, applies defibrillator paddles to every scene. The movie sprints madly and loose-limbed, like one of the infected. It’s wild—arrows skewer brains. Undead genitals sway. Alfie Williams is moving as a boy born into a dead world. Jodie Comer is heartbreaking as his mother. Ralph Fiennes pops in as a polite, philosophical Colonel Kurtz with a blowgun. The final minutes are disorienting, a vibe shift from horror to, um, "Kung-Fu Clockwork Orange?"
RANDOM RANKING
Top 5 Danny Boyle Movies
5. 'T2 Trainspotting' (2017)
4. '28 Years Later' (2008)
3. 'Sunshine' (2007)
2. 'Trainspotting' (1996)
1. '28 Days Later' (2002)