10 Dumbest Decisions In Zombie Movie History
2. Don Kisses His Infected Wife - 28 Weeks Later
28 Weeks Later is an uncommonly visceral zombie sequel, opening with an unforgettable sequence where Don (Robert Carlyle) decides to save himself from the incoming infected fleet while abandoning his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack), who we assume is then slaughtered by them.
But Don's decision-making proves a lot less pragmatic later on when he learns that Alice is in fact alive, not only sneaking into her quarantined hospital room but also passionately kissing her on the lips.
The rub, then, is that Alice is an asymptomatic carrier of the Rage virus, and so by swapping saliva with Don, inadvertently infects him with it.
To make matters worse, he turns right in front of her eyes, and because she's strapped to a gurney, she's helpless to fight back when he bites her throat, gouges her eyes out, and beats her to death.
You can lay some of the blame on the weirdly lax security for such a potentially dangerous carrier of the Rage virus, but this is mostly on Don - blinded by love for his wife and guilt for abandoning her, he didn't stop to think that maybe, just maybe, this wasn't the smartest of ideas.
As the saying goes, feelings get you killed.