28 Days Later is one of the most influential horror films of the 21st century. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2024

Many films since have used ideas from 28 Days Later, and it has entered the collective consciousness as one of the great horror classics of the early '00s.

| Mar 11, 2024

Manages to both pay respects to the zombie genre while entirely upending everything you expected from such outings, managing to be frightening throughout its run time, thanks in large part to the core cast.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 22, 2023

... Optimistic. Violent, yes; Bloody, that too... but at its core, it's as beautiful as an English rose garden. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2022

It’s an exercise that breathes new life into familiar tropes and offers a wildly inventive perspective that’s quite invigorating.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 26, 2022

28 Days Later captures how the infrastructure and social order designed to protect humanity create illusions of safety, a notion furthered in the post-9/11 world of increased paranoia and uncertainty.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

28 Days Later is a modern horror classic, and patient zero for zombie horror film's second renaissance.

| Oct 19, 2021

It pays homage while instilling a new way to speak to this way of storytelling. 28 Days Later isn't the best horror ever, but it manages to spark a fire that still burns nearly 20 years later.

| Oct 14, 2021

The vanished London society that Cillian Murphy wakes up to at the start of this movie is one of the most brilliantly staged horror movie openings ever, and the survivalist battle that closes it caps a powerful story of disease paranoia.

| Mar 22, 2021

A few ideas are borrowed from George A. Romero, but the brunt of the visuals and story are original and thrilling, though also a touch artsy and marginally poetic.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 25, 2020

A truly innovative and disturbing horror fantasy about a modern-day England totally ravaged by plague.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2020

A perfect fusion of lo-fi but gorgeous camerawork, a searing soundtrack and pitch-perfect performances... the film demonstrates how something tender and intimate can also be terrifying and epic.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 18, 2020

Twenty-eight Days Later is a zombie flick, which makes it my kind of movie-dare I say, our kind of movie. No cinema zombie ever shambles into view without its agenda.

| Mar 16, 2020

[G]ritty and truly frightening.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2020

28 Days Later was thrilling for the time.

| Oct 23, 2019

28 Days Later unfolds as agripping suspense film punctuated by gruesome violence.

| Oct 11, 2019

It really touched on something that nobody had ever tackled before and did it in such a modern way... I was really impressed.

| Aug 28, 2018

The possibility of renewal suggested by the survivors' attempts to start over certainly points toward hope. However, the circularity of the movie's plot is most likely to inspire dismay.

| Mar 22, 2018

The best purely British horror/science-fiction film in decades. And the first great apocalypse movie of the new millennium.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2014

Boyle is perfect for the job because he's not big on reassurance; by taking the radical step of letting the movie's low-budget grime get under your skin, he gives the zombie picture new life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2014