10 Horror Movie Openings That Surprised Us All
3. 28 Weeks Later
Sh*thouse. Absolute, absolute sh*thouse.
That's what most people were thinking as 28 Weeks Later opened up, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 2007 effort showing just how brutally self-serving people were in this virus-riddled landscape of rage and survival.
In similar movies to 28 Weeks Later - and even shown in 28 Days Later - we're used to seeing people bandying together to help each other in their mutual quest to survive from day-to-day. Granted, there are sole-focussed selfish characters dotted across those pictures, but those films don't start things off by depicting your lead character as one of those sole-focussed selfish characters.
During the opening of 28 Weeks Later, Robert Carlyle's Don is holed up in a barricaded cottage with his wife and four others. When a horrified, desperate young boy knocks on the door in search of safety, Don's wife Alice takes the lad in.
Once it becomes apparent that a bunch of infected have swarmed in on this supposed safe haven, it's here that 28 Weeks Later delivers the gut punch moment of Don opting to save his own skin; leaving his wife, the young boy, and the other survivors be torn to shreds by the infected.
For Don, he departs through an upstairs window and eventually make his solitary escape on a boat.
Again, absolute, absolute sh*thouse behaviour.