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3. The Alpha Zombie - 28 Years Later
Naturally, revisiting a franchise after so long will come with lots of changes. 28 Years Later returned to the Rage Virus-infected UK, well, 28 years later, and the state of said infected was very different, indeed.
A far cry from the classic shots of zombies sprinting at the likes of Cillian Murphy's Jim and Robert Carlyle's Don, by the time Aaron Taylor-Johnson rocked up, the infected were fat, slow, and couldn't even support their own weight. Most of them, that is. While there were plenty that crawled along the ground eating worms, there was also the Alpha.
This was essentially a super-zombie who was bigger, stronger, faster, and much harder to kill. They could take more arrows to the body without falling down, and ripped their victim's heads off with their spinal cord still attached. They should have been more intimidating than they ultimately were, but there was one thing that detracted from this.
Namely, the Alpha that Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) called Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) was completely naked, with it being impossible to keep the eye away from what normally would have been covered between the legs. To put it bluntly, it was swinging around far too much for the zombie to be taken as seriously as it should have been. Due to the presence of youngster Alfie Williams, a prosthetic had to be worn, which may not have helped it in being so distracting.