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Horror

28 Days Later

A bicycle courier wakes from a coma to find London deserted after a contagious rage has swept Britain. Joining a handful of survivors, he crosses an emptied country where human desperation can be as lethal as infection.

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Year
2002
Runtime
113 min
Rating
R
Director
Danny Boyle

Boyle's urgent digital imagery makes an emptied London feel newly alien, while Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris ground the film's speed and brutality in a searching story about rebuilding trust.

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Themes

  • Isolation
  • Contagion
  • Found family
  • Social collapse
  • Human brutality

Tone

  • Frenetic
  • Desolate
  • Intimate
  • Uncompromising

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