“Not long before writing 28 Days Later, sort of dovetailing with that bit of traveling I was telling you about, there was a game on the PlayStation, Resident Evil, and what Resident Evil did was it reminded me how much I loved zombie movies, and I thought ‘I love those, but there hasn’t been one for ages.’ And there was a thought there, I suppose.
And there was another thought, which is, after I got good at playing the game, I was thinking, the zombies are not actually very scary because you can kill them quite easily, or you can get away from them with a brisk walk. But there was something else in the game, which were these dogs. The dogs moved really quickly, and they actually would give me a jump sometimes, and I think that’s the thing that gave the sort of idea of a zombie movie, but where the zombies move quickly. The quick zombies I think really did come from playing Resident Evil.”
