10 Dumbest Decisions In Zombie Movie History

The infected in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later may technically be zombie-adjacent sufferers of the Rage virus, but for all intents and purposes they're basically zombies that can run.

Boyle's film kicks off by showing how the extremely contagious Rage virus first spread, and like so many viral outbreaks both real and fictional, human idiocy is often the root cause.

Here, a group of animal rights activists break into a lab to free imprisoned, experimented-upon chimpanzees, despite the lab's doctor frantically warning that the animals are infected with Rage, as can be easily transmitted through blood and saliva contact.

But the activists have their mission and aren't going to be stopped, and so when the cages are opened, one of their number is mauled by a rabid, Rage-infected chimp.

The infected woman quickly spreads the virus among her comrades, leading to Rage propagating throughout the UK and, as the end of 28 Weeks Later eventually confirms, reaching Continental Europe and Asia.

All these people had to do to prevent the outbreak was literally stay home and do nothing.