28 Days Later (2002) poster
2002 · horror · sci-fi

28 Days Later

Directed by Danny Boyle1h 53m2002
ElsewhereIMDb7.5539kRT87%Metacritic73TMDB7.29k
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
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Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

Our read · 28 Days Later (2002) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want lean dread, empty-London atmosphere, and infection horror that hits fast.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoreanimal harmjump scareschild perilsuicide themestrobe

Skip it tonightSkip if gore, suicide discovery, or teen peril will ruin your night.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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