Luckily, he runs into Selena, who knows the ropes, and then into Frank & Hannah, a father/daughter pair, and together the foursome goes in search of some kind of hope, or at least the means to live another day. Jim wakes up in a hospital after an accident left him unconscious, only to find that he’s all alone in an alien world where things want to eat him. Humans have turned into monsters, or else they fled or died, and the societal structure we spent so long building up has come crumbling down so very quickly. In that way, it’s a commentary on society, and I know that’s neither a breakthrough nor is this the first horror film to examine that, but very few have succeeded this well by doing it so simply.įour weeks after a rage virus spread throughout the UK, London is a ghost town, and the rest of the country isn’t doing much better. A slight back story, a tiny Rules To Live By segment, some info on how you get infected, and then bang, the race begins, with the struggle to survive having very little to do with the creatures themselves, but rather how humanity would respond to such a disaster. Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan GleesonĢ8 Days Later is one of the best zombie movies ever made because it’s barely about zombies.

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