28 Weeks Later (2007)

(SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT ANYONE WILL EVER SURVIVE)

[Now the first of a two part Bust covering a movie and its sequel, that unusually was more than just a money making exercise.]

28 Weeks Later (2007)
Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. With Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Renner, Mackintosh Muggleton.

In the end a "rage" infected Robert Carlyle is shot to death by his teenage daughter as she witnesses his attack on her younger brother, Mackintosh Muggleton.

Carlyle only barely manages to survive an outbreak of a highly contagious virus that causes its victims to become crazed flesh eating monsters, by leaving his wife for dead in an isolated house overrun by the infected.

Haunted by his cowardly flight, he eventually reaches the safety of London's Isle of Dogs, which has been transformed into a military controlled disinfected area from which it is hoped to rebuild British society.

While there, Carlyle is re-united with his two teenage children who by chance had been abroad on a school trip during the initial catastrophic outbreak.

However, it's not long before Carlyle discovers that the pair have sneaked out of the protected zone to visit their old family home, where to everyones' amazement the children find their mother alive despite Carlyle having told them that she was dead.

Once recovered by a military infection control team both children and mother are quarantined separately within the military controlled area while their possible exposure to the virus is assessed.

The discovery that the mother has miraculously survived obvious contact with the virus and so become its first known unaffected carrier, is made just too late to save Carlyle, though, who manages to infect himself by secretly penetrating his wife's quarantine and kissing her.

Things rapidly spiral out of control, as the infected Carlyle goes through the population of the controlled zone in a chain reaction of infection. So much so, that the military decide that the only way to deal with the situation is to annihilate everyone within the area whether or not they are infected.

Luckily for the children, the possibility that their genetic makeup might hold a clue to fighting the virus is recognised by one of the military medics, who together with a rooftop sniper, Jeremy Renner, disillusioned by his superiors' kill-all order, helps the children and several other survivors to escape immediate death within the zone.

However, it is not just the children and their protectors who manage to escape into the surrounding city. So they end up having to evade not only the chasing infection control teams but also a brand new wave of flesh hungry maniacs.

Eventually the children manage to rendezvous with a helicopter pilot friend of Renner's, but not until everyone else of their companions has been killed, Carlyle eventually having been dispatched by his daughter.

The pilot agrees to airlift the pair to the safety of nearby France, but whether or not Muggleton inherited his mother's immunity to the virus is thrown into questions by the closing movie's shots of virus infected lunatics storming towards the iconic Eiffel Tower.


The sequel is a worthy successor to Executive Producer Danny Boyle's low-budget zombie hit 28 Days Later (2002) the emphasis having shifted from whether anyone can survive to whether the spread of infection can ever be contained. And, of course, the way has been paved for a further sequel, 28 Months Later.

Flesh crazed zombies have never been so animated;)

Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Weeks_Later
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later