28 Days Later: The Zombie Movie That Changed Everything

Who doesn't enjoy the occasional zombie flick Ever since George O Romero set the modern archetype for these undead monsters with his iconic 1968 film The Night of the Living Dead most movies in this genre have followed this formula In two thousand and two inspired by Romero's movie British filmmaker Danny Boyle teamed up with writer Alex Garland to create one of the most iconic zombie movies of all time 28 Days Later Just like the film that inspired it 28 Days Later would once again reinvent the wheel regarding zombies as the creatures in Boyle's film were not the traditional reanimated corpses but people infected by something called the rage virus that transformed them into mindless feral rage monsters One other trope that this film introduced was the fact that these zombies were no longer the shambling horrors that we were used to Instead they were rapid and aggressive Despite the director refusing to acknowledge the fact that 28 Days Later was a zombie flick it is widely credited for reinvigorating the genre The film also focuses on more complex and philosophical themes like the breakdown of morality and the effects of a societal collapse on the psyche of individuals giving it a more cerebral tone