20 Opening Movie Scenes That Are Totally Flawless
18. In The House, In A Heartbeat - 28 Weeks Later (2007)
Though it fails to live up to the brilliance of its predecessor, 28 Weeks Later scores some serious points for featuring the best scene from either film.
Whereas 28 Days Later was a shoestring budget horror mostly concerned with atmosphere and human drama in the face of an unstoppable killing force, Weeks is more of a straightforward action-horror, complete with added gore and fast-paced violence.
The film's opener reveals a group of Rage Virus survivors have taken refuge in a cottage on the edge of London, but we don't get any to time to properly meet them before they're overrun by the infected and brutally dispatched one-by-one.
Amongst the chaos, Don (Robert Carlyle) abandons his wife and son and runs to a nearby boat with John Murphy's heart-pounding instrumental "In the House, In a Heartbeat" blaring over his escape. What follows is one of the most tense chase sequences ever devised, and a scene so powerful the rest of the film is unable to match it.