28 Days Later

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.

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.

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

The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox.

Heedlessly derivative though it may be, 28 Days Later does what it sets out to do and then some -- scare us out of our wits, then get us to apply those wits to an uncommonly intelligent and provocative zombie flick.

Later does a lot of things right, which makes its third-act missteps even more frustrating.

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

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.

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.

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