28 Days Later

This movie is not so much a zombie movie, as it is an infected people, biting other people movie. It can be argued whether or not these creatures are "zombies," but it can be universally agreed that they possess characteristics that people now widely associate with zombies. They are essentially a consciousness-lacking corpse, driven by rage and hunger for human flesh. Knowing this, one has to remember that zombies perform different acts of cultural critique and one has to be mindful and think about how zombies are functioning in the text (in this case the film). In the film, I think these creatures are functioning as a physical driving force of a human epidemic and how people react to these situations of terror. Essentially, a virus is being spread throughout England and it has spread to New York and other parts of the world. So, this raises the questions of, "how long does one live once one has the virus?" (In this case, the virus can be a substitute for any kind of terror that brings out a national or worldwide epidemic). The product of this "virus" is not necessarily a terror epidemic, it can be an epidemic of any sort, so the focus is more on people and how we deal with situations like these. Do we respond with logic, or with terror?