The Last Of Us is back, but its runners and clickers aren’t the only fast-moving zombies coming to our screens this year. If those somehow aren’t terrifying enough, the rage virus is also returning in 28 Years Later, the long-awaited sequel to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 2002 film 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades and the U.K.’s infected are ravenous—and angrier than ever.
28 Years Later already shared one panic attack-inducing clip, and this one is no different. Fair warning—it uses that skin-crawly reading of Rudyard Kipling’s “Boots” again. Maybe have a Xanax on hand before hitting play.
The new trailer lets us in on a little more of the film’s actual story. The official logline, per The Hollywood Reporter, reads: “It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected, but other survivors as well.”
That brave ranger is Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who, against anyone’s better judgement, takes his 12-year-old son, Spike (Alfie Williams), along with him. On the outside, they encounter hideously deformed creatures (including one played by Cillian Murphy look-alike Angus Neill, who tricked most of the internet when the first trailer was released a few months ago), rabid priests, an undeniably metal cathedral of skulls (perhaps the titular “Bone Temple” from Nia DaCosta’s upcoming sequel?), and a battle-hardened Ralph Fiennes. “There are many kinds of death,” his character tells Jamie and Spike at one point. “Some are better than others.” For all of their sakes, this writer hopes they somehow make it out of this one alive. The deaths on display just in this short clip are more horrific than most.
28 Years Later rages into theaters June 20.
