28 Weeks Later (2007)

Recommended

UK/Spain
Feature Film
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writers: Rowan Joffe, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Enrique López Lavigne, Jesús Olmo
Cinematographer: Enrique Chediak
Composer: John Murphy
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Idris Elba, Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton

Fresnadillo’s Romero-like sequel to 28 Days Later (2002), which follows the tentative repopulation of London by the US Army following the virus’s apparent death, combines political allegory with visceral thrills to produce a film just about worthy of its predecessor. Iain Stott