Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Danny Boyle
Country: UK
Genre: Horror

Top notch gory suspense.

Zombies had taken a bit of a backseat in the horror genre for awhile just before the 21st century. Their slow antics and lack of personality eventually made them silly, which is why my guess is there are more zombie-comedies than any other horror creature. But around the turn of the century, the infection evolved into humans instilled with rage, ready to not only eat your flesh, but tear it off your body before beating your skull to a bloody pulp. How appropriate that 28 Days Later begins with angry monkeys, as that’s what zombies have become. When this film came out, it scared me senseless. I still get chills when I think about the church scene. Not only did it make zombies hip again, it raised the standards to which all other zombie films would then be compared. Top notch gory suspense.