28 Weeks Later story
28 Weeks Later is a 2007 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who co-wrote it with Rowan Joffé, Enrique López Lavigne and Jesus Olmo. It is the sequel to the 2002 film 28 Days Later. Synopsis: In the aftermath of a zombie-creating virus raging across Britain, NATO military forces salvage a safe zone in London, but two young siblings breaking protocol to find their infected mother, results in the reintroduction of the zombie scourge to the safe zone.
17 total · 4 choice · 5 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brother and sister | choice | Central to the story is the teenage girl Tammy and her kid brother, Andy, coming to grips with their mother's death, and then their efforts to survive a zombie outbreak. |
| human vs. monster | choice | Everyone fended for their lived when a zombie outbreak came to the safe zone in London. |
| monster apocalypse | choice | A main novelty of the story concerns an attempt to reboot Britain 28 weeks after a zombie outbreak left nearly the entire population dead, and subsequent reemergence of the zombie scourge. |
| zombie | choice | People infected by the "Rage" virus quickly turned into mindless, bloodthirsty zombies. |
| coping with the death of a parent | major | Tammy and Andy struggled to come to grips with the apparent fact that their mother had died horribly in a zombie attack, and when to their old house to fetch some keepsakes to remember her by, only to discovered her alive, but in very bad condition. |
| human-made pandemic | major | It was understood that the highly contagious virus that turned people into voracious zombies was human-made. |
| husband and wife | major | One storyline follows Don as he leaves his wife for dead in a zombie overrun house only to be reunited with her later against all odds. |
| military related work | major | The follows the efforts of NATO military men and women to run a safe zone on the Isle of Dogs in London 28 weeks after a disastrous zombie outbreak raged across Britain. |
| rebuilding society after a disaster | major | There was an American led NATO mission to reboot Britain 28 weeks after a zombie scourge had essentially wiped the nation from the face of the earth. |
| coping with the death of a spouse | minor | Don left his wife in a zombie overrun house for dead, and later lamented her presumed death, while recounting a self-vindicating false narration of the horrible event to his children. |