28 Years Later (Netflix) 2025
2002’s 28 DAYS LATER was a small but surprisingly visceral horror movie with a strong cult following and often credited with reinventing the zombie movie genre for the new millennium. Its following was strong enough to spawn a sequel 28 WEEKS LATER in 2007, a graphic novel, and a well regarded comic book series that lasted 24 issues till 2011. And after that, complete silence. Nothing was moving in the franchise other than false starts over rights issues and rumors. And then in 2024, the third installment 28 YEARS LATER was announced, eventually debuting in 2025. After a frightful opening sequence recapping the start of the rage virus (the infection that turns people into screeching savages) 28 YEARS LATER follows a boy named Spike who lives in a community on a small tidal island off the Scottish coast. Britain is quarantined from the rest of the world and The community has reverted to a type of post apocalyptic medieval villager society with a strict isolationist stand. Sp...