![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The writer has explained that the game made him realize that the undead had been absent from mainstream media for quite a while, making him long for the days of Romero’s Dead trilogy. The film then chronicles the group’s attempts to survive and find meaning in this grim new world.Īppropriately enough, it was Capcom’s original Resident Evil that rekindled Garland’s love affair with zombies and led to his screenplay. Joining forces with Selena ( Naomie Harris) and Mark ( Noah Huntley), Jim learns that there’s been an outbreak of the highly contagious “Rage” virus, which led to the collapse of civilization. Now that the movie is celebrating two decades of terror and we’ve lived through the horrors of a real pandemic, I think it’s the perfect time to discuss how the film remains an influential classic even after so much media has borrowed from it.įor the unfortunate few who haven’t seen it, 28 Days Later stars Cillian Murphy as Jim, a young man who awakens from a coma and finds himself on the run from homicidal infected in a post-apocalyptic London. Not only does the film contain a hauntingly memorable portrayal of a lifeless England, but it also explores our need for human contact even in a world where violence can erupt in a mere heartbeat. Despite a certain melancholic beauty in solitude, the fear of being alone is both primal and common enough that most people have nightmares about it at one time or another, so it makes sense that it’s a recurring theme in the horror genre.Īnd when it comes to horrific depictions of solitude, I’d say that my absolute favorite would have to be Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s apocalyptic masterpiece, 28 Days Later. ![]() Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people”, and while it can be easy to sympathize with that statement, I think there’s more than one kind of hell. ![]()
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