8 Smartest Decisions In Zombie Movie History
4. Hello - 28 Days Later
Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is a smart zombie movie, period.
Released back in 2002, this was a picture that helped to reinvent the zombie movie. Rather than shuffling, groaning undead sorts, 28 Days Later served up frenetic, terrifying infected beasts who were unlike anything film fans had ever seen before.
Not just was this a smart choice to make by director Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland (who would go on to pen Sunshine, Dredd, and direct Ex Machina), but the central protagonists of 28 Days Later were likewise presented as not just your average dunderheads.
As the film comes to a close, with Cillian Murphy's Jim, Naomie Harris' Selena and Megan Burns' Hannah having escaped to the sanctuary of a Cumbrian cottage, the trio have the brilliant idea of sowing giant letters spelling out HELLO.
Not necessarily your usual cry for help, but this was more a way to make any passing aircraft aware of their location and survival.
Elsewhere, the first act of 28 Days Later makes you instantly realise that some of the characters here have quite the smarts on show. For example, Selina starts the film alongside fellow survivor Mark (Noah Huntley), yet she doesn't think twice about immediately killing Mark after he becomes bitten - taking swift action, rather than contemplating how Mark can be saved from his inevitable fate.