The film 28 Weeks Later is a contradictory beast, though one with a certain blood-soaked appeal. The sequel to the 2003 zombies-with-significance flick from Trainspotting helmer Danny Boyle and The Beach author Alex Garland has already been widely celebrated as a worthy successor to its influential predecessor.
It resurrects much of the iconic look of the original, expanding on an eerily abandoned London and shot with a grainy digital feel. Likewise, the story – which follows survivors returning to a quarantined zone in East London six months after the original outbreak – has legs.
