Coming of age means embracing death in the wild world of 28 Years Later

In the 22 years since 28 Days Later weaponized enraged crowds with its viral horror, the zombie fiction that grew from Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s relatively restrained digital nightmare often took its various apocalyptic premises to their logical conclusions, spreading out as completely as a world-ending infection. These stories weren’t just about surviving the present-day problems of the undead, but learning to exist in a new society defined by their existence. But after 28 Weeks Later, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 2007 sequel...