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Danny Boyle's surprise 2003 hit 28 DAYS LATER gets the sequel treatment here. Few elements from the first film remain--actor Cilian Murphy doesn't return and Boyle and screenwriternovelist Alex Garland take producer credits this time out. In their places step directorco-writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo INTACTO and actor Robert Carlyle TRAINSPOTTING who bring the original story to its next logical step. The zombies again referred to as "the infected" from the first film have died out and England is ready for repopulation. The American military are slowly bringing British citizens back to London where a heavily guarded community is picking up the pieces and trying to return to normal life. Carlyle plays Don a man who has lost his wife but is reunited with his children Andy Mackintosh Muggleton and Tammy Imogen Poots near the start of Fresnadillo's film. The two kids soon escape from the heavily guarded community go off searching for their childhood home and discover that mom might not be quite as dead as they...
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28 Weeks Later & 28 Days Later
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This two-pack features both the original and sequel to Christopher Boyle's well regarded post-apocalyptic thriller. 28 DAYS LATER: 28 DAYS LATER: This post-apocalyptic thriller is set in an empty haunting London after a deadly Ebola-like virus has swept through the city. Jim Cillian Murphy a bicycle messenger who was in an accident just days before the outbreak is one of very few survivors who awakes 28 days later to a city that has been evacuated and is now utterly lifeless. He wanders the vacant streets of London feeling as if he's trapped in a never-ending hallucination. However upon entering a church that is littered with dead bodies he discovers that he is not alone--"the infected" are still living. They are violently sick fast-moving bloodthirsty zombies who travel at night in ravenous packs. Jim manages to escape "the infected" and locate a band of survivors--Selena Naomie Harris Hannah Megan Burns and Frank Brendan Gleeson--and they join forces searching for solutions clinging to hope that somewhe...
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