I’ve added a spoiler-flag for those who haven’t seen the first movie, allowing you to skip a section in this post. But expect trailer-level spoilers overall.

Having lived through 9/11, Brexit and Covid – while barely surviving the world’s current epidemic of algorithm-induced psychosis – watching 28 Days Later makes you wonder if someone travelled back in time to give Alex Garland a checklist to work from while he was writing the script.

Like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1984) and Peter Weir’s The Trum...