Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 32 nominations
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Cillian Murphy
- Jimas Jim
Naomie Harris
- Selenaas Selena
Christopher Eccleston
- Major Henry Westas Major Henry West
Alex Palmer
- Activistas Activist
Bindu De Stoppani
- Activistas Activist
Jukka Hiltunen
- Activistas Activist
David Schneider
- Scientistas Scientist
Toby Sedgwick
- Infected Priestas Infected Priest
Noah Huntley
- Markas Mark
Christopher Dunne
- Jim's Fatheras Jim's Father
Emma Hitching
- Jim's Motheras Jim's Mother
Alexander Delamere
- Mr. Bridgesas Mr. Bridges
Kim McGarrity
- Mr. Bridges' Daughteras Mr. Bridges' Daughter
Brendan Gleeson
- Frankas Frank
Megan Burns
- Hannahas Hannah
Justin Hackney
- Infected Kidas Infected Kid
Luke Mably
- Private Cliftonas Private Clifton
Stuart McQuarrie
- Sergeant Farrellas Sergeant Farrell
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- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Taglines
- His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn't.
- Genres
- Certificate
- 16+
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaThe film was shot almost entirely in sequence; only pickups and a few reshoots were shot out of sequence.
- GoofsSelena and Mark claim that there is no electricity, yet when they enter Budgens to loot the store of food, all the lights are clearly on.
- Quotes
[Jim enters a dark abandoned church when he sees writing on the wall]
Writing on a Wall: 'Repent, The End Is Extremely Fucking Nigh'
- Crazy creditsOther than the Fox Searchlight logo, there are no opening credits whatsoever. The title of the movie, 28 Days Later, only appears as a descriptive subtitle.
- Alternate versionsFox Searchlight attached an alternative downbeat ending to all 1400 US prints of the film, while it was still in U.S. release. The revised ending was the one that appeared in the original script, but the script's ending was ditched in favor of a happy ending after it did not test well. Director Danny Boyle decided "We can't do this to people, because it was such a tough journey anyway."
- ConnectionsEdited into Cent une tueries de zombies (2012)
- SoundtracksEast Hastings
Performed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (as Godspeed You Black Emperor)
Appears courtesy of Kranky, Ltd.
Written by Efrim Menuck, David Bryant, Roger Tellier-Craig, Thierry Amar, Mauro Pezzente, Aiden Girt, Bruce Cawdon, Sophie Trudeau and Norsola Johnson
Published by Rough Trade Publishing
Top review
A Cracking Zombie style horror, with substance
28 Days Later successfully takes the zombie genre to a new level, this movie is far more than just a horror flick. There are some great characters, that you actually care about, some you'll like, some you'll be glad to see killed, but all solidly performed.
The story is well written and avoids the clichéd cheesy scripts that are too often attached to the horror genre. And I must add that the direction is exactly what you would expect from 'Danny Boyle' top class.
For me though the real difference between this movie and many others made in this genre is as follows - The infected (the zombie like folk) are more menacing, they turn instantly and they move fast, a combination that would instill fear in every one of us.
I don't mean to run down the zombie movie genre - I am a huge fan of most of these films, but lets be honest its been done to death, re-animated and done again, and this was the first movie to break the mould and transcend to a new level.
If you like your horror flicks, then this is certainly worthy of your attention.
9/10
The story is well written and avoids the clichéd cheesy scripts that are too often attached to the horror genre. And I must add that the direction is exactly what you would expect from 'Danny Boyle' top class.
For me though the real difference between this movie and many others made in this genre is as follows - The infected (the zombie like folk) are more menacing, they turn instantly and they move fast, a combination that would instill fear in every one of us.
I don't mean to run down the zombie movie genre - I am a huge fan of most of these films, but lets be honest its been done to death, re-animated and done again, and this was the first movie to break the mould and transcend to a new level.
If you like your horror flicks, then this is certainly worthy of your attention.
9/10
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- mjw2305
- Dec 23, 2006
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $45,064,915
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,061,858
- Jun 29, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $85,720,385
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1(original ratio)
- 1.85 : 1
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