by E.J. Lambda

Created on: February 12, 2009   Last Updated: February 27, 2009

QUICK! Name one great zombie flick that takes place in England. Yeah, me neither. Thankfully we have been treated to manly portions of raging zombitude in the action/adventure/quasi-military/quasi-zombie/impress ively stupid, celluloid dogpile known as 28 Days Later. Actually they're not so much "zombies" in the traditional sense. You know...in the "good movie" sense. These "zombies" run fast. Really fast. Which I hear came in handy for escaping the premier of...(sigh)...28 Weeks Later.

In this film England gets decimated by a viral infection known as "RAGE" which apparently travels through the blood and has the same effect on people as sitting through a Martin Lawrence movie marathon. The film starts with Jim (Cilian Murphy) waking up in the hospital only to discover that not only has England been evacuated but he is just plain ol' bare-assed naked as well. He throws on some scrubs and ventures out into the city armed with a Pepsi can in a plastic bag which he promptly uses to bludgeon an infected priest in a church. There's probably butt-loads of memory-repressed altar boys all over the world that cheered that particular scene and don't even know why.

Jim gets chased by a big gang of infected only to be saved by the molotov cocktails from some expendable white guy in a gas mask and some obnoxious machete-crazed black girl. Figures. The only chick in Jim's age range within a 500 mile radius and she's apparently having a passionate love affair with her machete. Better luck next time, Jimbo.
They travel to Jims house where it is clear the infected take issue with Jims home movies and attack while Jim is taking a stroll down memory lane which also happens to be the most boring ass lane in the history of mankind. Expendable white guy gets bitten by an infected then obnoxious black girl chops him up with her machete.

They escape and meet up with the fat guy from Braveheart (Brendan Gleeson) who is entrenched in his squalid apartment with his seemingly bitter daughter. She's like a small version of a DMV clerk without the name-tag. Braveheart guy convinces them they should leave the city for Manchester because there's a bunch of soldiers there. So off into the sunset they head which really makes no sense on my part seeing as how Manchester is north of London. I digress. They take a car that looks a lot like a car Mr. Bean would drool over and venture off.

Along the way they encounter a vast array of hi-jinks starting with a mass exodus of starving rats, and violent

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