Ahead of the release of 28 Years Later – Don’t miss Danny Boyle’s seminal horror classic 28 DAYS LATER screening for ONE NIGHT ONLY on 21st May! To meet demand, a second show has been added earlier in the evening!
Plus, don’t miss Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 2004 sequel 28 WEEKS LATER ing our Friday Night Frights strand on Friday 13th June!
Few films have helped shaped a genre quite like Danny Boyle’s 2002 zombie horror classic 28 DAYS LATER. Sure, you could (quite literally) say that George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead walked so that Boyle’s 28 Days Later could run, but Boyle’s film helped revitalise the zombie movie, attracting a new generation of fans and filmmakers to the genre.
The film would popularise the term “rage zombies” – a type of zombie or, in the case of 28 Days Later, infected human, who are driven by a virus that causes a permanent state of rage, leading them to attack anything and anyone without fear or hesitation. These infected people were also quite different from the slow, sluggish Romero zombie; they were physically strong, extremely fast, and incredibly durable. This new type of zombie was groundbreaking, and would influence the likes of Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake, the Spanish found-footage horror [•REC], and the Brad Pitt-starring apocalyptic horror World War Z.
Opening with a now-iconic sequence of a deserted London in broad daylight, the film follows a young man (a breakout Cillian Murphy) who wakes from a coma to discover the world has collapsed after a viral outbreak has turned much of the population into rage-fuelled shells of their former selves. Shot on Mini DV for a raw, documentary-like edge, 28 DAYS LATER merged lo-fi aesthetics with bleak intensity, and set the tone for the next two decades of apocalyptic cinema.
The film was bold, bleak, political, and tense, and featured one of the best genre trailers of its era, built around Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s haunting “East Hastings.” The film launched a wave of imitators, made Cillian Murphy a star, and put screenwriter Alex Garland on the map. With the much-anticipated sequel, 28 YEARS LATER, on the horizon and directed once again by Danny Boyle, there has never been a better time to revisit this landmark film. Come see where the end began.
Don’t miss 28 DAYS LATER showing for ONE NIGHT ONLY on Wednesday 21st May! The film has been missing from streaming platforms for a while now and hasn’t screened at The PCC since 2019. Book today to see it on the biggest screen we have…
While we have you… We are also screening Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 2004 sequel 28 WEEKS LATER, starring Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne and Jeremy Renner, on Friday 13th June. Set after the events of the first film, 28 Weeks Later depicts the efforts of United States-led NATO forces to establish a safe zone in London, the consequence of two young siblings breaking protocol to find a photograph of their mother, and the resulting reintroduction of the Rage Virus into the safe zone.
