Danny Boyle's surprise 2003 hit, 28 DAYS LATER, gets the sequel treatment here. Few elements from the first film remain--actor Cilian Murphy doesn't return, and Boyle and screenwriter/novelist Alex Garland take producer credits this time out. In their places step director/co-writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (INTACTO) and actor Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING), who bring the original story to its next logical step. The zombies (again referred to as "the infected") from the first film have died out and England is ready for repopulation. The American military are slowly bringing British citizens back to London, where a heavily guarded community is picking up the pieces and trying to return to normal life. Carlyle plays Don, a man who has lost his wife but is reunited with his children, Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and Tammy (Imogen Poots), near the start of Fresnadillo's film. The two kids soon escape from the heavily guarded community, go off searching for their childhood home, and discover that mom might not be quite as dead as they originally thought. Chaos follows, with the sadistic military and the forlorn survivors battling both each other and "the infected."

Fresnadillo apes much of Boyle's style from the original film, shooting in rapidly edited sequences that cause plenty of blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments. A pounding soundtrack helps enliven the scenes with "the infected," and an abundance of swooping aerial shots highlight the desolate London landscape. A few minor sub-plots emerge, Fresnadillo offers sly commentary on the military's trigger-happy tendencies, and the film ends up somewhere in between zombie fare such as George A. Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD and dystopian visions of the future such as Alfonso Cuaron's CHILDREN OF MEN.

Theatrical Release: May 11, 2007

Blu-ray Disc Features:

Region [unknown]
NTSC
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, Spanish, French
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes: "Pure Rage: Making of 28 WEEKS LATER"
Featurette: "The Infected"
Music Video: Jacknife Lee
Audio Commentary: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - Director; Enrique Lopez Lavigne - Producer
Alternate Scenes:
1. Deleted Scenes (6; w/ Optional Commentary)
2. Alternate Endings (2; w/ Optional Commentary)
3. Storyboard for Alternate Ending
Trailers:
1. High Definition Theatrical Trailers
2. Theatrical Teaser
3. Theatrical Trailer
4. "Fox on Blu-Ray: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR"
Text/Photo Galleries:
Slideshows:
1. Running Production Stills (w/ Commentary)
2. Running Polaroids (w/ Introduction)
Storyboards (w/ Animation)

Robert Carlyle: Scottish actor, THE FULL MONTY/THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
Imogen Poots: Actor, 28 WEEKS LATER, (2007)
Mackintosh Muggleton: Actor, 28 WEEKS LATER, (2007)
Catherine McCormack: Actress/"Loaded"
Rose Byrne: Actor, I CAPTURE THE CASTLE (2003)
Jeremy Renner: American Actor, DAHMER (2002)
Harold Perrineau: Actor, OZ, LOST
Idris Elba: British actor, THE WIRE

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo: Director, INTACTO (2002)

Andrew MacDonald: Producer: "Trainspotting," "Shallow Grave," "Twin Town"
Danny Boyle: Director: SHALLOW GRAVE
Alex Garland: Writer

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo: Director, INTACTO (2002)
Roland Joffé: British Director
Jesus Olmo: Screenwriter, 28 WEEKS LATER (2007)

John Murphy: Composer, NEW BEST FRIEND (2002)

3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's stylish, disturbing and not without its own ideas....[With] non-stop action..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo handles the set-pieces superbly..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's not only a worthy sequel to the original, but a razor-sharp horror in its own right."
"It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques."