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A guide to the British filming locations of ’28 Days Later’
Following the success of movies like Trainspotting and The Beach, featuring a post-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio, you wouldn’t expect Danny Boyle to then come out with the low-budget 28 Days Later a few years later.
But Boyle has never been afraid to push a boundary or two, so with a budget considerably lower than his previous effort, he grabbed some handheld video cameras and began work on a horror film that would come to have a lasting legacy in the genre.
It had been a long time since British cinema had been the champions of horror – long gone were the days of Hammer’s tight hold over the genre – but with 28 Days Later, Boyle made an all-out British classic.
In fact, the locations featured in the film are a vital backdrop, and in a way, England becomes a character itself, a once-bustling, thriving country now infected and desolate – when Cillian Murphy’s Jim wakes up in the hospital following a bike accident that left him in a coma, he discovers an empty London, strewn with rubbish, overturned buses, and corpses.
A virus has swept the nation, leaving the country in utter disarray with complete governmental collapse, and now it’s his job to find other survivors and figure out what to do next.
A guide to the British filming locations of 28 Days Later:
