Those who love the horror genre know how difficult it can be to find a film that feels original, and that goes double for movies featuring played-out bad guys like zombies. Eventually, you get tired of watching movie after movie where directors phone it in and give us a George Romero impersonation. If you’re hungrier than a zombie to sink your teeth into something fresh, then you really need to stream 28 Days Later on Netflix.
The premise of 28 Days Later is built into its title: namely, that the film takes place in Great Britain 28 days after a zombie outbreak has run rampant. Our main character is a former bike courier who wakes up in a post-apocalyptic world filled with flesh-eating monsters. Now, he must stay alive in a world where a single bite or scratch can sentence him to a fate worse than death, but it turns out that the zombies might not be the most dangerous thing roaming this horrific new world.
28 Days Later has a scary good cast, including Naomie Harris (best known for Moonlight and Skyfall) as a resourceful woman trying to help our main character survive. Brendan Gleeson (best known for In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin) plays a cabbie-turned-daddy with a heart of gold. Meanwhile, Doctor Who icon Christopher Eccleston plays memorably against type as a military man who never needed a zombie bite to stop acting like a human being.
The best performance of the film comes from Cillian Murphy (best known for playing the title role in Oppenheimer), who plays a bike courier who wakes from a coma in a country plagued by zombies. Murphy is pitch-perfect as an audience surrogate character, and seeing this undead dystopia through his eyes makes every new heartbreak that much more vivid. Notably, Murphy gets to demonstrate a wonderful range throughout the film, and this film alone was enough to make him into a household name thanks to his powerful performance.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 28 Days Later didn’t shambled its way to a hair-raising 87 percent rating. Critics generally praised the movie for being a double-threat, functioning as both a keen political allegory and one of the scariest horror movies ever made. They also heaped rightful praise on director Danny Boyle, someone whose innovative use of digital video took a spooky genre long thought dead and managed to raise it back to life.
The success of 28 Days Later led to the movie unexpectedly becoming a franchise, with 28 Weeks Later coming out in 2007. And earlier this year, 28 Years Later came out, putting a bloody bow on one of horror’s creepiest franchises. Incidentally, all three movies are currently streaming on Netflix, so you can keep the zombie party going after 28 Days Later wins you over with its infectiously good acting and directing.
Will you agree that 28 Days Later is one of the finest horror movies ever made, or is this one zombie movie that you’d rather rip the head off of? You won’t find out until you head to Netflix and stream this unsettlingly spooky movie for yourself. Afterward, you may never again look the same way at the angriest and bloodiest monsters cinema has ever seen: the English.
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