28 Weeks Later

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28 Weeks Later

R,

2007,

1h 40m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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73%

199 Reviews

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Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army declares the danger past, and American soldiers arrive to restore order and begin reconstruction. Refugees return to British soil, but one of them carries a deadly secret: The virus is not gone and is even more dangerous than before.

Critics Consensus

While 28 Weeks Later lacks the humanism that made 28 Days Later a classic, it's made up with fantastic atmosphere and punchy direction.

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Lou Lumenick

New York Post

Aug 22, 2007

3/4

It's an exciting, well-directed thriller that, while providing more than enough action and gore to satisfy genre fans, also offers the political commentary that has characterized zombie movies.

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Rex Reed

Observer

Jun 20, 2007

There isn't much acting here, but there is entirely too much vomiting, and the prose turns laughably purple, too.

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

May 21, 2007

Even though I knew the scares were coming, I jumped out of my seat a few times.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Oct 11, 2025

[Director] Fresnadillo drives the scenes of zombie mayhem with a jumpy camera and a fractured editing style that adds a sense of panic to the chaos, as if seen through the terror-stricken perspective of an adrenaline-laced bystander.

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Noah Berlatsky

Everything is Horrible (Substack)

Sep 2, 2025

Screenwriter Alex Garland’s willingness to get weirder and more mean-spirited in his follow-up is an unusual and admirable choice.

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Andrew Dignan

In Review Online

Jun 20, 2025

Stranger, more diffuse, and less wedded to conventional notions of realism and regularly occurring jump scares than its predecessors... [although] no film in recent memory has been more deserving of an “incomplete” grade.

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Apr 28, 2019

An awesome zombie style flick!

Han R

Apr 8, 2019

Violence, blood, more violence. What else is there in this movie? No acting necessary.

Albus R

Mar 27, 2019

Fast and incredibly scary.

Feb 11, 2019

fucking amazing, Tammy was surely my middle school crush

Jan 26, 2019

This is a great horror movie by a great director. Underrated for sure

Anakin P

Jan 5, 2019

Like every sequel ever made, this movie appears to have been filmed by someone who took note of the highlights and things that worked and tried to insert them into a generic plot. Tepid, flat, and weak, even the flying body parts couldn't enliven it. Zero chemistry from the actors, and I really didn't care whether they lived or died. Using the same music and a touch of the artistic angles and scenes reminiscent of the original doesn not make a good remake. Pass.

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Synopsis

Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army declares the danger past, and American soldiers arrive to restore order and begin reconstruction. Refugees return to British soil, but one of them carries a deadly secret: The virus is not gone and is even more dangerous than before.

Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Producer: Enrique López Lavigne, Allon Reich, Andrew Macdonald
Screenwriter: Rowan Joffe, Jesús Olmo
Distributor: Fox
Production Co: Fox Atomic, DNA Films, Figment Films, Sogecine, Koan Films
Rating: R (Some Sexuality/Nudity|Language|Strong Violence and Gore)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 11, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $28.6M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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