![]() West is killed by an infected soldier who is named Mailer, and the trio escape.Īfter another twenty-eight days, the Infected are seen dying of starvation. As the trio prepare to leave, West shoots Jim in the stomach. He allows an Infected into the house, where it attacks and infects most of the remaining soldiers. Jim tries to escape with Selena and Hannah but is subdued and led out into a forest to be killed.Įscaping his captors, Jim returns to the mansion to rescue Selena and Hannah. Jim learns of West's answer to Infection - waiting until the Infected die of starvation, and in order to guarantee the survival of the species, luring survivors to the base to acquire women and satiate his men. The soldiers inhabit a fortified mansion, under the command of Major Henry West. At the blockade, Frank becomes infected, and is then killed by the soldiers, barely having time to tell his daughter he loves her before he succumbs to the infection. Despite reservations, the group decide to leave London to join the soldiers. Frank later picks up a pre-recorded radio broadcast made by a group of soldiers who have set up a blockade near Manchester and claim to have "the answer to Infection". After spending the night at Frank's flat it becomes apparent that the few uninfected people will not survive for long, given that their supplies- particularly their water- are dwindling and London is suffering a drought. On their journey through the city they meet two other survivors, Frank and his daughter, Hannah. Selena kills him - before Mark shows any conclusive sign of infection - and she explains to Jim that it only takes seconds before those who are contaminated become Infected. Later the group are attacked by Infected, and during the struggle Mark's arm is cut and exposed to infected blood. While visiting Jim's house, they discover that his parents have committed suicide. Jim learns that while he was comatose, the virus spread uncontrollably among the people, turning them into vicious and mindless monsters, referred to as "infected", and finally collapsing society, possibly on a global scale. Taking refuge in a church, Jim is chased by the Infected and rescued by two survivors, Selena and Mark, who rush him to their hideout in a section of the London Underground. Leaving the hospital, Jim discovers that all of London seems likewise deserted the streets are empty and filled with signs of catastrophe. Twenty-eight days later, Jim, a bicycle courier, wakes up from a coma in a strangely deserted hospital. Now wasn’t that a nice distraction? We feel a lot better having properly classified this film once and for all.The film opens with the initial outbreak of the Rage virus, caused when an infected chimpanzee bites an animal rights activist attempting to free it from a laboratory. ![]() This is important to remember because the starving thing will be key when dealing with our own relatives when they become infected. They wander the earth searching for brains until someone removes the head from the body. See? Zombies don’t fucking starve to death. Just saying.Īnyway, we think the biggest lesson we can take away from “28 Days Later” is how they eventually beat the “infected.” In case you forgot, the “infected” eventually starved to death. So it would be hard to argue that similar paths don’t lay ahead. Hmm interesting, isn’t it? If you remember the movie, the “rage” virus was also created in a lab. We’ll just point out there are rumors the coronavirus was created in a lab. That makes us wonder, when the Coronavirus takes control, will we end up living in the hellscape the movie is set in? It’s hard to say. Just like the folks who now have the Coronavirus. How could this breakthrough role for highly skilled acting craftsman Cillian Murphy be anything but a zombie film? Well let us ask you this: Are the “zombies” in the movie walking dead people? No, they are not dead. So we think this is as good of a time as any to distract ourselves with a lighthearted dissection of Danny Boyle’s highly revered 2002 horror classic “28 Days Later” with the hypothesis that it is actually an outbreak film and not the zombie film you may have thought it was. As we watch the death toll increase daily we can only fear the possibilities that face our vulnerable loved ones if this gets out of control. Basic survival supplies and hand sanitizer are sold out all over town. Hey everyone! We all have the coronavirus pandemic on our minds.
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