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We Need to Talk About the Massively Hung Zombie in 28 Years Later


There is, believe it or not, plenty to unpack about the role full-frontal male nudity has played in this series.

Just like 28 Days Later, the 2002 collaboration between director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, 28 Years Later is brimming with indelible imagery: an abandoned Shell gas station with the S long burned out, a conical tower of human skulls surrounded by bone-covered trees. But while the rampant zombie nudity is notable, it falls to the wayside once we meet the alpha (Chi Lewis-Parry), the ostensible leader of the infected, who is bigger, stronger, and distinctly more endowed than any of his compatriots. Following the initial outbreak of the rage virus, 28 Days Later opens with an overhead shot of bicycle messenger Jim (Cillian Murphy) waking up from a coma, naked in a hospital bed.

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