The spread of infectious diseases. The societal rules no longer protecting us. The impossible burden of surviving on your own. These are the things that I became afraid of now as I was when this was originally released. Danny Boyle did more than reinvent the zombie-apocalyptic horror genre back, he predicted our future.
It took some growing up from me to realize the true horror from 28 DAYS LATER comes not from its tactics to spook audiences but from the…