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How ’28 Days Later’ Reimagined Zombie Horror – The Hollywood Reporter
More than two decades ago, 28 Days Later helped bring the zombie genre back to life. The film starred Cillian Murphy as Jim, a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover that he is among the survivors of an incurable virus that has decimated the U.K. Screenwriter Alex Garland knew director Danny Boyle and producer Andrew Macdonald after the trio worked on the 2000 feature adaptation of Ga...[Read More]
20 iPhones replaced traditional movie cameras on Danny Boyle’s ’28 Days’ zombie movie …
LONDON -More than two decades after the release of his zombie apocalyptic horror hit "28 Days Later", director Danny Boyle is returning to the franchise with a fresh set of eyes and a twist on a new technology.
’28 Years Later’ Review: Danny Boyle Revives His Monsters – The New York Times
The director returns to the postapocalyptic Britain he conjured in his 2002 movie “28 Days Later,” this time with a father and son running from the infected. Mom joins in, too.After more than two decades of dipping in and out of genres that have taken him from the Milky Way to Mumbai, Danny Boyle has returned to the juicily gruesome world of consuming violence, human and otherwise, with “28 Years ...[Read More]
“28 Years Later ”review: Danny Boyle’s stylistic viral horror franchise has mutated in creative …
Gather ye round, and I shall tell you the tale of the stout islanders off the mainland who built up a society from ruin, and the cunning boy named Spike who bravely faced demons to meet his destiny.You may not have thought, back in 2002 when Danny Boyle’s lo-fi 28 Days Later first came out, that elements of high fantasy would ever evolve from that gritty, groundbreaking movie’s style. But give som...[Read More]
Dying Light: The Beast dev reveals the unlikely inspiration for Kyle Crane’s new abilities
Dying Light: The Beast may be a gritty zombie survival simulator filled with gore and horror, but it turns out this new entry was inspired by none other than Pac-Man for one of its mechanics.At Summer Game Fest 2025 we learned that Dying Light: The Beast is launching on August 22, almost a year after it was unveiled at Gamescom Opening Night Live in 2024. During that Gamescom demo last year, we we...[Read More]
Danny Boyle’s horror sequel 28 Years Later is proving to be all the Rage, as it earns higher …
23 years after the original was released, Danny Boyle's horror sequel 28 Years Later has earned a stellar Rotten Tomatoes score – one that's even higher than the original.28 Years Later currently sits at a near-perfect 95% on the review aggregator site, while the original film, 28 Days Later, has a lower 87%.Our own 28 Years Later review awards the film three stars, with our reviewer writing: "Tho...[Read More]
Critics Think 28 Years Later Has Lots of Braaaains – Vulture
Photo: Sony Pictures/YouTube Once again, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland have made a thinker about the brainless undead. Or rage virus-infected differently alive, whatever. 28 Years Later is the latest zombie movie/geopolitical rumination from the writer-director team. And critics have found a lot to chew on. If 28 Days Later was a reaction to 9/11 and the eruption of secta...[Read More]
Deadline On The Red Carpet: Aaron Taylor-Johnson On ’28 Years Later’s Brexit Nod …
London’s Leicester Square was infected by the rage virus last night as it hosted the world premiere of Danny Boyle‘s zombie-horror 28 Years Later. Deadline was on the red carpet to speak to the team behind the film, including Oscar-winning director Boyle, stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams and Edvin Ryding, as well as Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainm...[Read More]
28 Years Later film review — zombified Britain is cut off from world in expansive sequel
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’28 Years Later’: A Zombie Apocalypse Infected by Brexit, the Manosphere and Trump
“28 Years Later” leaps forward through time — into a world that has changed in worrisome parallel to ours.It begins with a deadly lab leak. Inside an English research facility in Cambridge, a bank of TV monitors is blasting clips of documentary violence — riots, hangings — into the eyes of a chimpanzee, a test subject in what we’d now recognize as “gain of function” virus research. Today, the rest...[Read More]
28 Years Later First Reviews: Unconventional, Stylish, and Surprisingly Moving
Almost two decades since the release of the previous installment in its franchise, 28 Years Later arrives in theaters this weekend, and the first reviews are in. Following 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, this horror sequel welcomes back the original’s writer Alex Garland, director Danny Boyle, and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle for a new story about secluded survivors of the ap...[Read More]
Danny Boyle’s long-awaited zombie sequel 28 Years Later is a triumph – New Scientist
An infected in 28 Years LaterMiya Mizuno/Sony 28 Years Later Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland In cinemas from 20 JuneAdvertisement Here’s a bit of screenplay advice to nail above your desk: make your plots simple and your characters complicated. We can polish off the story of 28 Years Later in a couple of paragraphs. It’s the belated third instalment in a series that began in 2002,...[Read More]