HELL on Earth

As Jodie Comer's 28 Years Later hits cinemas, get up to speed with the horror franchise...

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Made on a modest budget of about £5 million, British post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later became a surprise box-office hit when it was released in 2002.

Directed by Shallow Grave and Trainspotting's Danny Boyle and written by The Beach author Alex Garland, its terrifying plot of people going on the rampage after being infected by a rage-inducing virus was credited with making zombie movies popular again.

Five years later, a sequel followed, with Garland and Boyle forgoing writing and directing duties in favour of being executive producers. But a second sequel, 28 Years Later, out in cinemas from Friday 20 June, is once again directed by Boyle from a screenplay by Garland, and stars Jodie Comer, Jack O'Connell, Ralph Fiennes and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

'We tried to imagine how a world rebuilds itself after an apocalypse,' says Boyle of the new film, in which the infected have now been living with the skin-rotting virus for 28 years.