2002 · horror · sci-fi
28 Days Later
Directed by Danny Boyle1h 53m2002
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
Our read: 28 Days Later (2002) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
28 Days Later counts for a challenge
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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