There's a pretty good British horror movie scheduled for broadcast on HBO tonight titled 28 Days Later. It's a sci-fi story which starts out with the hero in London getting knocked into a coma by a car. He wakes up in a hospital 28 days later to find a world drastically different from the one he remembered.
It seems that around the same time he got knocked out some animal rights whackos broke into a bio-lab to liberate the lab animals, but the chimps they set free have been inflicted with a brand new disease called "rage." It's catching, of course.
People can get it from the blood, sweat, tears or saliva of a carrier. And, there's no annoying wait for symptoms - the disease becomes full force within half a minute of exposure.
The main symptom seems to be that a person with it is in a state of murderous rage. After our hapless hero wakes up in an abandoned hospital and starts looking for some sign of life he's soon trying to make sense of this situation in which the only living humans seem to want to chase him down and kill him. But, he manages to team up with a small band of quick thinking survivors who with their wits and a fair share of their own brutality have managed to keep from being killed or infected.
So, that's basically the premise of the movie. And the questions that you probably have are whether the disease gets off the British island and whether or how many of the band of survivors survive to the end of the movie. For the answers, you'll want to see the movie. Don't get HBO? No problem, it's available on DVD, and it's sure to keep you on the edge of your chair.
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