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28 Years Later Film Review — Zombified Britain Is Cut Off From World in Expansive Sequel
- Danny Boyle's new film, 28 Years Later, a postapocalyptic horror-thriller, premiered in theaters on Friday 2025-06-21.
- This sequel follows a quarantined British mainland still overrun by infected monsters, continuing a story first established in 28 Days Later from 2002.
- The plot centers on a small agrarian island off northeast England where a father leads his son on a rite-of-passage journey to the infected mainland.
- The film's modest budget ranges between $60 million and $75 million, and the cast includes Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, and Alfie Williams.
- Boyle and writer Alex Garland, reuniting after more than two decades, set the stage for two more films with a story exploring memory, society, and the impact of technology.
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The new apocalyptic horror film 28 Years Later takes place in the same world as 28 Days Later, where a deadly virus transformed the citizens of the U.K. into rabid blood-spewing creatures. The new film brings back the original's director and screenwriter, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland. It's set on a small island where a group of survivors (including Jodie Comer and Aaron Taylor-Johnson) eke out a modest existence. A desperate expedition reveals ne
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Fox AtomicIt’s disappointing, but unsurprising, that director Danny Boyle has been somewhat inconsistent on whether his new film 28 Years Later is solely a direct follow-up to his 2002 zombie classic 28 Days Later or will acknowledge the events of 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. Even his recent assurances sound a bit dismissive. Maybe director and co-writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s sequel hasn’t been entirely excised from the franchise, but it’s clearly…
REVIEW. More than two decades after the zombie hit "28 Days Later," Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are back. In the new sequel, Britain has become an isolated wasteland and the angry zombies have mutated into their own, primitive race of humans.
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