10 Zombie Movies You Must See Before You Die

When a group of animal rights activists cause a chimp-infected plague to spread across the country, an apocalypse is unleashed. In 28 Days Later, Cillian Murphy’s Jim wakes up in a hospital to find the city of London deserted and in ruins: he must survive.

While Jim manages to find a company in the likes of Brendan Gleeson, Naomie Harris and Megan Burns, 28 Days Later is a brutal look at the idea of survivalism in an inhabitable landscape as the group head to an army encampment. While the film doesn’t necessarily add anything new to the zombie genre, it takes the feeling of isolation and haunting emptiness and enhances it with picturesque cinematography of a deserted London. Director Danny Boyle shoots on film to create this almost documentary-like look at the situation as the world as we know it falls into nightmarish stillness.

The motifs of 28 Days Later hark back to Boyle’s previous film, The Beach and the ways that alternative societies quickly fall to equally terrible habits as the one’s they’re leaving. Like many of the best Zombie flicks, this is a film that gets us to question our own human nature - because even in situations like the zombie apocalypse, we’re the most dangerous killers.