A group of animal rights advocates breaks into a research laboratory, releasing a caged chimpanzee that is infected with the rage virus. When a bike courier wakes from a coma in an abandoned London hospital 28 days later, he embarks on a perilous journey to escape from the infected.

Tapping into post-9/11 metropolitan hysteria, 28 Days Later brought the zombie movie charging into the 21st century with rabid, panic-inducing potency. Filmed guerrilla-style on early digital camcorders, its unforgettable images of a deserted London have lost none of their eerie power.