Being Film #8 for Hooptober 2025

23 years later from 28 Days Later we get 28 Years Later, and while I loved writing that sentence, I didn’t love it as much as I loved the film itself. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to their 2002 “fast zombie / don’t call it a zombie film” film, in the process not only setting the stage for a new trilogy of films (28 Year Later: The Bone Temple is already shot and set for January 2026) but also bursting every seam of the movie with cutting criticism of English politics while solidly building out the mythology of the world, utterly investing us in its characters, and once again using smartphones both in and on the film to marry the themes of the movie to its execution. Oh, and it’s balls out scary, to boot. This is how you do it.