History Film / TwentyEightWeeksLater

Another sequel, called -- what else? -- ''28 Months Later'', was planned by the creators but has been lingering in DevelopmentHell ever since the release of ''Weeks''.

* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: When a frantic child is allowed into the barricaded home that Don, Alice, and a group of other survivors are holed up in just weeks after the infection began, his arrival portends the events to come.

* DaylightHorror: The beginning sequence and the final image of the movie, particularly.

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-->"Their [Tammy's and Andy's] lives are far more valuable than mine...or yours."

*** Karen in particular is this in spades due to her breakdown over her boyfriend abandoning them. When the group first hear knocking at the door, she ''shouts out'' thinking irrationally that it's her boyfriend whilst Geoff has the sense to silence her in case it's an infected. Later, when the kid is ''explaining within earshot'' that there were infected right behind him who are likely in the area, Karen in her delusions that her boyfriend is going to come back ''pulls one of the cloths covering the window away'' in the hope she'll catch sight of him, which leads to the infected outside finding the survivors and making Karen their first victim.

* ShootEverythingThatMoves: There's a fairly horrific scene where the soldiers are attempting to secure a compound by shooting infected, except that due to the speed and the confusion it's hard for them to make out just the infected. Then the snipers get the order that ''everyone'' is considered a target...

* ItCanThink: The Infected in this movie seem to have a bit more going on upstairs than the ones in ''[[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'', particularly Don who not only manages to survive the [[spoiler:firebombing of District 1]], but tracks his children through London all the way to the Underground. He also uses a gun as a blunt weapon when he [[spoiler:kills Major Scarlett]]. He's not the only Infected to survive District 1, either, which implies he's not the only one who's retained some measure of intelligent reasoning.

* ApatheticCitizens: They've all just survived a viral outbreak. One assumes that even the ones who were outside of the UK and returned had been shown videos and been told how virulent the Infected were before they even returned. Yet when they are herded to a secure location for their own safety - no matter how unsafe that actually turned out to be in the end - they bicker and complain to the troops about it.

--> '''Child''': "My mum, my dad... They're trying to kill me. There's others too."
--> '''Don''': "How many others?"
--> '''Child''': "... ''Loads''."

*** Karen in particular is this in spades due to her breakdown over her boyfriend abandoning them. When the group first hear knocking at the door, she ''shouts out'' thinking irrationally that it's her boyfriend whilst Geoff has the sense to silence her in case it's an infected. Later, when the kid is ''explaining within earshot'' that there were infected right behind him who are likely in the area, Karen is her delusions that her boyfriend is going to come back ''pulls one of the cloths covering the window away'' in the hope she'll catch sight of him, which leads to the infected outside finding the survivors and making Karen their first victim.

** The [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom little kid]] from the prologue, who didn't try to lose the infected pursuing him before knocking on the first door he saw, then when the infected naturally burst through the door, decided to ''run away'' instead of staying with the others.
*** The adults are even dumber, because this child immediately informs them that he's being chased by hundreds of infected. It's clear that the infected are still some distance away, thus it would be very simple for the group to grab some edibles and water and either go to the basement, or the upstairs rooms, or the attic, simply somewhere they won't be seen, and wait for the infected to pass the area. Instead they sit the kid down, hand him a plate of food and all sit around downstairs talking, one of them even peeking outside, which causes the infected to take notice of them.
** The old woman at the start of the film. Instead of running away from the infected, she decides to stay behind and argue with her husband.

* UnbuiltTrope: The original film [[TropeCodifier codified]] the TechnicallyLivingZombie, but its sequel gives it a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While the rage virus is devastating in the short term, the infected's mindlessness means that they have no ability to care for themselves, resulting in Britain's massive hordes dying off from simple starvation and dehydration in a matter of weeks.

* UnbuiltTrope: The film states that after five weeks, the zombies all died of starvation.

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Robert Carlyle's character who we start the movie following is either this or a SacrificialLion.]]

** Any quarantine room would have had doors that might have allowed entry with a keycard, but exit only with approval from someone outside the room. This simple precaution would have [[spoiler: locked Robert in with his carrier wife]], and [[spoiler: the death toll would have been two]]. Similarly, if the civilian quarantine cells had been secured ''at all,'' the infection would never have reached the thousands of people trapped in there.

A sequel called ''28 Months Later'' has been planned by the creators, but it has been lingering in DevelopmentHell ever since the release of ''Weeks''.

''28 Weeks Later'' is the 2007 sequel to the 2002 horror film ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.

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''28 Weeks Later'' is the 2007 sequel to the 2002 horror film ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''.

** TheVirus wiped out the entire population of Britain in under a ''month'', but apparently despite the fact that the Virus was only contained due Britain being an island, the U.S. Military deemed a mere ''six months'' to be enough time to adequately classify it as ''safe''. Realistically, Britain would have been kept under a UN Quarantine for ''decades'' if not ''centuries'' to eliminate any lingering trace of TheVirus before any attempt at recolonisation began.

* ChekhovsGun: Heterochromia. {{Genre Savvy}} tropers can pick out the entire plot of the movie simply from one conversation in the first few minutes.