Don pleads with Alice to leave the boy but she refuses. The infected attack and kill most of the survivors, while Don, Alice and the boy are chased upstairs. A few minutes later, they discover that the infected have followed the boy. They hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and Alice lets him in. It grossed $64 million worldwide against a $15 million budget.ĭuring the original outbreak of the Rage Virus, Don, his wife Alice and four more survivors hide in a barricaded cottage on the outskirts of London. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the direction and atmosphere.
It is set after the events of the first film, depicting the efforts of NATO military forces to salvage a safe zone in London, the consequence of two young siblings breaking protocol to find their infected mother, and the resulting reintroduction of the Rage Virus to the safe zone.Ģ8 Weeks Later was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on, by 20th Century Fox and by Fox Atomic in the United States. The sequel to the 2002 film 28 Days Later, it stars Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, and Idris Elba. 28 Weeks Later is a 2007 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who co-wrote it with Rowan Joffé, Enrique López-Lavigne, and Jesus Olmo.
