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28 Days Later (2002) or, Fast Zombies in England!

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The ominous poster for Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later

28 Days Later is an energetic, exciting Danny Boyle-directed (127 Hours (2010)) zombie horror, written by Alex Garland (Ex Machina (2015)).

The film presents an original spin on a zombie plague and has a nice London-set section. - Zombies are of the new, fast-as-hell kind here. 
 
The span between artsy, alone-in-the-world-thematic scenes and bloody terror in 28 Days Later is sometimes too contrasted for my taste, although some audiences and critics have embraced the film wholeheartedly for this reason in particular.
Cillian Murphy (Girl With a Pear Earring (2003)) and Brendan Gleeson (Calvary (2014)) are good here, but otherwise the performances are not too strong, and parts of the film look like they were shot on an amateur camera.

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Cillian Murphy runs for his life in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later
Watch the trailer for this modern zombie classic here

Cost: 8 mil. $
Box office: 82.7 mil. $
= Mega-hit (returned 10.33 times the cost)
[28 Days Later was released 1 November and runs 113 minutes. It opened #4, behind fellow new release Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and holdover hits Hulk and Finding Nemo, to a 10 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it then left the top 5 and grossed 45 mil. $ (54.4 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were production country the UK with 9.7 mil. $ (11.7 %) and Spain with 6.5 mil. $ (7.9 %), where reportedly almost 1.2 mil. people paid admission to see it. Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire (2008)) won the Best Cinematographer award at the European Film Awards for his work here. The film has so far spun a 2007 sequel, a graphic novel and a comic book. A 3rd film is in the works. Boyle returned with Millions (2004). Murphy returned in Intermission (2003). 28 Days Later is certified fresh at 87 % with a 7.4/10 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

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