10 Scariest Opening Horror Movie Scenes Ever
6. 28 Weeks Later
Any zombie movie worth its salt will have an opening packed full of gnashing, bloodied, undead bad boys - from Dawn of the Dead to Zombieland, and 28 Weeks Later is no different. Coming as the sequel to Danny Boyle’s genre-sparking 28 Days Later, Weeks had something to prove very quickly if it was going to live up to the heady heights of its predecessor.
Going in on claustrophobic, instantaneous nightmare fuel when a horde of undead nasties breaks into the home of a group of survivors, it isn’t long until almost everyone is effectively wiped out in the space of ten minutes: setting the scene for Robert Carlye’s cowardly escape and subsequent attempt at redemption throughout the rest of the movie.
Seeing the terror on the inhabitants faces paralleled with the uncomfortably well-designed harbingers of the rage virus makes for an incredible opening, all the more so for establishing such a tight-knit group of friends, complete with sweet old woman, prior to the attack. No one wants to see old granny smith take a bite of those apples.