28 Days Later... (2002)

R for for strong violence and gore, language and nudity.

Andrew Macdonald

Alex Garland

John Murphy

Anthony Dod Mantle

Chris Gill

Fox Searchlight Pictures

United Kingdom

English

Badminton House, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Bank, London, England, UK

Blackwall Tunnel, London, England, UK

Bowness Knot, Cumbria, England, UK

Canary Wharf Underground Station, Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK

Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK

Carland Cross Wind Farm, Mitchell, Cornwall, England, UK

Ennerdale Water, Lake District, Cumbria, England, UK

Haymarket, St. James's, London, England, UK

Horse Guard's Parade, St. James's, London, England, UK

Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK

Lake District, Cumbria, England, UK

London, England, UK

Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Piccadilly Circus, Piccadilly, London, England, UK

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Schwabenpark, Kaisersbach-Gmeinweiler, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

South Quay DLR Station, Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK

St. Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth, London, England, UK (exteriors)

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Tilbury, Essex, England, UK

Tottenham Court Road, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK

Trafalgar Park, North Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Trafalgar Square, St James's, London, England, UK

Trellick Tower, Golborne Road, Notting Hill, London, England, UK

Waverley Abbey, Surrey, England, UK

Westminster Bridge, Westminster, London, England, UK

28 Weeks Later

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

2004 Won Saturn Award Best Horror Film

2004 Nominated Saturn Award Best Director Danny Boyle

2004 Nominated Saturn Award Best Writing Alex Garland

Black Reel Awards

2004 Won Black Reel Film: Best Breakthrough Performance Naomie Harris

British Independent Film Awards

2003 Nominated British Independent Film Award Best Achievement in Production

2003 Nominated British Independent Film Award Best British Independent Film

2003 Nominated British Independent Film Award Best Director Danny Boyle

Chlotrudis Awards

2004 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Cinematography Anthony Dod Mantle

2004 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Director Danny Boyle

2004 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Movie

2004 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Original Screenplay Alex Garland

Cinénygma - Luxembourg International Film Festival

2003 Nominated Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold Danny Boyle (Méliès d'Argent at Fantasporto) Festival 2003

Empire Awards, UK

2003 Won Empire Award Best British Film

2003 Nominated Empire Award Best Newcomer Cillian Murphy

European Film Awards

2003 Won European Film Award Best Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle/ Also for Dogville (2003)

2003 Nominated Audience Award Best Director Danny Boyle

Fantasporto

2003 Won Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver Danny Boyle

2003 Won International Fantasy Film Award Best Director Danny Boyle

2003 Nominated International Fantasy Film Award Best Film Danny Boyle

Hugo Awards

2004 Nominated Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form

International Horror Guild

2004 Nominated IHG Award Best Movie

Irish Film and Television Awards

2003 Nominated IFTA Award Best Actor in a Film Cillian Murphy

MTV Movie Awards

2004 Nominated MTV Movie Award Breakthrough Male Performance Cillian Murphy

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA

2004 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Foreign Features Glenn Freemantle (supervising sound editor); Tom Sayers (sound effects editor); Grahame Peters (foley editor); Gillian Dodders (dialogue/adr editor)

Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival

2003 Won Narcisse Award Best International Film Danny Boyle

Online Film Critics Society Awards

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Breakthrough Performance Cillian Murphy

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Sound

World Stunt Awards

2004 Nominated Taurus Award Best Fire Stunt George Cottle, Eunice Huthart, Peter Pedrero & Andreas Petrides fpr: Zombies lit on fire by Molotov cocktails erupting into full body burns while running over cars and chasing someone through the deserted streets of London

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Naomie Harris

Cillian Murphy

Noah Huntley

Brendan Gleeson

Christopher Eccleston

Megan Burns

Stuart McQuarrie

Ricci Harnett

Leo Bill

Luke Mably

Junior Laniyan

Ray Panthaki

Sanjay Rambaruth

Marvin Campbel

David Schneider

Twenty eight days after animal rights' activists release a virus that transforms people into zombie-like lunatics, an uninfected man (Murphy) wakes up in hospital. Together with a small group of survivors, he starts on a long trek to find safety and the possibility of a new life.

For the scenes in London, police would close the roads at 4am and filming would begin immediately. It would last for one hour, and at that time the police would reopen the roads.

The tower block where Hannah and her father lived was condemned and has now been demolished.

Christopher Eccleston and the other soldiers in the film had a three-day training programme with real soldiers to help them learn how to carry themselves believably.

Horror novelist Stephen King bought out an entire showing of the film in New York City.

The Bible verse on the postcard that Jim is so interested in is from the Book of Nahum. Nahum was a prophet who predicted the destruction of the great city of Nineveh, the capital of the great, and at that time flourishing, Assyrian empire. It was to be utterly destroyed as a punishment for the great wickedness of its inhabitants.

The symbol used for this film is the international symbol for blood-borne biohazard.

Funded by the British Film Council, which in itself is funded by the National Lottery. As a result of this, there are prominent advertisements for the National Lottery throughout the film.

The angelic song that plays in the background, particularly during the car trip, is called "In Paradisum" by Gabriel Fauré.

It cost £250,000 in total to blow up the petrol station.

Cillian Murphy's nude scenes were done on a closed set, at Murphy's insistence.

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Sergeant Farrell: Well, I think Bill's got a point. If you look at the whole life of the planet, we... you know, man, has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

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When the camera pulls back to show Manchester aflame, if you look at the south bound lane of the motorway, you can see a row of flashing lights in the distance. This is the police keeping the traffic back so that the road looks clear. Also if you look to the left of the lights about two seconds later, you can faintly see a car drive by in the distance.

During the first shot of Centre Point at Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, on the left side of the screen, a man can be seen changing the bags of a dustbin to the right of the stationary lorry.

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Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland plumb the violence of the mind with slashing wit and shocking gravity. Happy nightmares. Reviewed by: Peter Travers of Rolling Stone.

Mr. Boyle has hardly lost his sly, provocative perversity or his ear for the rhythms of unchecked violence, but he does seem to be maturing. It's as if, in contemplating the annihilation of the human race, he has discovered his inner humanist. Reviewed by: Dana Stevens of The New York Times.

Solid performances, an intelligent script, and sure-handed direction. The result is a movie that kept me involved from start to finish. Reviewed by: James Berardinelli of ReelViews.

Around about the third act, the picture does what no self-respecting virus ever would -- relents, turns confused, and lets our immune system fight back with thoughts of its own, with distracting cavils about the logic of the plot and the slightness of the themes. Reviewed by: Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail (Toronto).

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