Gargling With Infected Semen

Danny Boyle's surprise 2003 hit, 28 DAYS LATER, gets the sequel treatment here. Few elements from the first film remain--actor Cilian Murphy doesn't return, and Boyle and screenwriter/novelist Alex Garland take producer credits this time out. In their places step director/co-writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (INTACTO) and actor Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING), who bring the original story to its next logical step. The zombies (again referred to as "the infected") from the first film have died out and...

A desperate government official assassinates the mayor of Chicago and extracts a blood sample from the body in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses. With the entire city after him, the murderer is shot down on sight, but not before passing the blood vial off to Nick (Gil Bellows) and Lisa (Maxim Roy), two journalists whose instincts tell them to have the sample tested. The discovery of an alien protein tears open a government conspiracy involving an insect-like species and a potential pandemic unlike...