Two decades before its sequel ‘28 Years Later,’ Danny Boyle teamed with Alex Garland for a dystopian sci-fi flick that featured zombies running after star Cillian Murphy.

The zombie genre has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past two decades, and Alex Garland's work from 28 Days Later to the upcoming 28 Years Later illustrates just how far it's come. What started as a straightforward horror story has become a layered exploration of society,

In “28 Years Later,” director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland return to their apocalyptic pandemic with the benefit of now having lived through one. But recent history plays

Days Later’ brought a horrific genre back: the zombies. The movie was two decades ago and starred Cillian Murphy as Jim, who was a bicycle courier guy. He discovers that he is among the survivors of an incurable virus that has wiped out the U.

28 Years Later is a captivating return to form that casts away cheap nostalgia and doubles down on the powerful nature the first movie was known for. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland recognized that the message of empathy versus conflict still carries a charge, and pick things up in a sweeping epic that doesn’t miss a heartbeat.