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When we first see Jim he is lying naked on a hospital bed, abandoned by his fellow man––more specifically the nurses and doctors whose very purpose it is to attend to human needs––without even the curtesy of being clothed first. When Mark describes his last few moments with his family, he remarks that the ground was soft, and that he was standing on the bodies of other people: “like a carpet.” People have not only been made into savage “animals,” but even those who were not infected have been relegated to mere “things.”Ĭlothing is also associated very intrinsically with human dignity. One of the most inherent and enduring themes throughout 28 Days Later, is in the destruction of human dignity as well as the undermining of the very “personness” which defines us.

But in every other way, 28 Days Later is a zombie apocalypse movie, and the film follows many of established traditions of the genre widespread, often gruesome death, frequent displays of the fragility of human life and constructions, and a rapid degradation of humanity itself. Some may argue that 28 Days Later is not a proper embodiment of this genre because the “zombies” are actually still living people who have merely been infected by a virus which turns them into psychotic monsters. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2003) is a british film which plays into the “zombie apocalypse” fad which has become increasingly popular in the film industry over the past decade.