28 Years Later

There are many kinds of death. And some are better than others.

28 Years Later is a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film and the third installment in the 28 Days Later franchise. The film follows a young boy named Spike three decades following the outbreak of the Rage Virus and his attempts to find his place in the midst of an apocalyptic world.

Directed by Danny Boyle. Written by Alex Garland.
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Spike

  • [Jamie: You scared?] Only a little bit. Are you?
  • Dad said he didn't know what the fire was. And he says all the doctors are dead -- that's why no one knows what's wrong with Mom. Just feels like he's lying about everything...
  • They're all lying, Mum.
  • We're gonna see a doctor. [Isla: What doctor?] A real doctor. [Isla: No!] From the old days. There's something wrong with you, Mum. Doctor's gonna make you better.
  • I love you, Mum.
  • Dad. I'm okay. You don't need to look for me. I'll come back when I'm ready. Gonna keep walking, until I can't see the sea. We found Doctor Kelson. He's not insane. He's a kind man. The baby's from an infected, but she's not. She's okay. Please be kind to her. Her name is Isla.

Isla

  • Is your Dad silly? [Spike: Dad?] Yeah. Silly with ya? Jokey? Your Granddad was so silly. You wouldn't believe how much. Everyone else thought he was so serious, but around me, he was daft. Is your Dad like that? You know, when it's just the two of you? [Spike: No.] Just wanted to make sure you're tough enough. Like him. You know, when I look in your face... I see your Granddad's eyes sometimes.
  • Aw, look! The angel! You remember the first time you showed me the angel, Dad? We drove near here with the car. We walked until we spotted it rising over the treetops. You said it would stand like this forever, like the pyramids or Stonehenge so when you look at it you're seeing into the future. Do you remember that? Do you? I couldn't have been more than seven or eight. "Was the two of us, real life time travelers," you said. Falling into the future. And I got... I got scared! Because I thought you were being serious and we really had. How many hundreds of years have we fallen this time? Is it thousands or more?
  • Spike... The doctor can't make me better, but he can help. [Spike: I don't understand.] I do.

Jamie

  • The more you kill, the easier it gets. Don't feel bad about it. The infection takes away their minds -- it's got no mind, it's got no soul.
  • There's another kill here, if we're lucky.
  • Before you were born, we used to forage. It got harder a year out so you'd have to travel further and one day, it took a group of us close to Kelson's, right? Five-hundred yards out, we started to smell death. Now understand we were well-eating our asses up -- back then, the dead were everywhere. But this? This was totally different. The stench was like... It was like a wall. You could touch it. And we got to the brow of this hill and we looked down... I'd never seen anything like it. Corpses. Hundreds. Just, granged in light. Men, women, children. And in the middle was this fire. Stood by was Kelson. For some unfathomable purpose, he'd dragged all the bodies there. A few seconds later, he turned around and he looked right at us. And he waved casually like "Hey, wanna come down lads?" Yeah, we turned and ran and in fifteen years, none of us have been back. Like I said, insane.

Dr. Ian Kelson

  • Morphine, Xylazine. It's extremely fast-acting!
  • There were so many dead -- infected and non-infected alike. Because they are alike. Every skull is a set of thoughts. These sockets saw and these jaws spoke and swallowed. This is a monument to them. A temple.
  • Don't worry, no, it's-- It's not precious in that way. The structure is solid, but the bones will fall apart due to time or the elements or Spike's hand. The memento mori is... is actualized.
  • [observing Erik's skull] Alas, poor Erik.
  • There are many kinds of death. And some are better than others. The best are peaceful, where we leave each other in love. You love your mother. [Spike: I love her.] And Isla, you love Spike. [Isla: So much.] Memento Amoris. Remember you must love.

Others

  • Opening Crawl: The Rage Virus laid waste to the UK. It was driven back from continental Europe. The British mainland was quarantined to maintain the virus. Survivors were left to fend for themselves. 28 years later...
  • Young Jimmy: Father! Why have you forsaken me?
  • Erik Sundqvist: You can't help me? Why the fuck did I help you, huh?! I could've saved my bullets!
  • Sir Jimmy Crystal: Ho! Wonderful shot! It was real poetry. Though... I think there's a few too many coming now, even for a fine young warrior like yourself. Would you mind if we stepped in? It would be our pleasure.
  • Sir Jimmy Crystal: Hello. My name's Jimmy. Let's be pals.

Dialogue

Young Jimmy: Dad! Dad! Dad -- Dad, what's happening?
Vicar: Nothing that hasn't been most perfectly foretold.
Young Jimmy: I'm so scared, Dad. Aye, Mum's just-- Mum is dead!
Vicar: Ah, no, son. Not dead. Saved. This is a glorious day. A day of judgement.
[From outside, a horde of infected approach. The vicar removes his cross from around his neck.]
Vicar: Here, my son. Keep this with you, always. Have faith.
[After a beat of silence, the Infected burst in, enroaching upon Jimmy's father who stays kneeled in the middle of his church.]
Vicar: Yes! YES, MY CHILDREN! YES!!!
Spike: I can't go back now, Dad.
Jamie: Why?
Spike: Everyone'll think I'm soft.
Jamie: Ah, they will. Can't have that, can we? C'mon, then.
Jamie: Looks like he got tied up and left for the infected. And now he's infected.
Spike: He's infected?!
Jamie: Aye.
Spike: Why would anyone do that?!
Jamie: Maybe a punishment. Maybe a warning. There are strange people on the mainland, roaming. That's why our home is so precious.
Spike: Is that the lesson?
Jamie: No. [regarding the infected:] Kill it.
[Regarding a pillar of fire in the distance]
Spike: What is it, then?
Jamie: I dunno, never been there.
Spike: Does it always burn?
Jamie: I just said I'd never been there, Spike.
Sam: Oh! Spike! Didn't expect to see you until past midnight.
Spike: Just came to see me mum. How is she? She alright?
Sam: She's better than alright -- we were up and about! We walked over the fields. She's got a lot of life in her when she's not having a turn. But what about your day, eh? More to the point.
Spike: Dad's making it up as something it's not.
Sam: Like what?
Spike: Like I'm a hero.
Sam: Yes, but you are to him.
Spike: It feels like he's lying.
Spike: Get the fuck away from us!
Jamie: From us?
Spike You heard us. Just go away, Dad.
Erik: My best friend from school, he's a delivery driver? Ah, you don't know what a delivery driver is -- he, um... delivers packages. Y'know, people order stuff online? I bet you don't know what "online" is. It doesn't matter! He's a-- He's a driver. And I told him "You're wasting your life, Felix. You only get one life and you're pissing it away! And he said, "Yeah, what are you gonna do, fucknuts?" So I joined the Navy to prove a point. Now who's pissing away their life, huh?
Spike: I don't understand what you're saying.
Erik: I'm saying I should've been a delivery driver. Right now, I'd be stuck in traffic somewhere, driving too fast down a narrow street or something.
Isla: Who are you?
Erik: I'm Erik. And this is your father, Spike.
Isla: What?
Spike: He's just being silly, mum.
Isla: He's being a dick.
Erik: Right! Put it down. Put it! Down!
Isla: It's a baby!
Erik: It's a fucking zombie baby!
Spike: What's that?
Dr. Kelson: Heh! I've been... I've been waiting almost thirteen years for someone to ask that question. I often thought I would die here, alone of age or starvation or violence, never having had the chance to reply. Do you know the words "memento mori"?
Spike: No.
Dr. Kelson: It's Latin. Ironically, it's a dead language. It means "Remember death. Remember you must die."
Dr. Kelson: Your feelings of confusion -- do they feel like episodes, phases, or does it feel more constant?
Isla: It was waves, but... I think the tide's coming.

Taglines

  • Time Didn't Heal Anything
  • In 28 days it began. In 28 weeks it spread. In 28 years it evolved.

Cast

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