28 Years Later Now Streaming

28 Years Later, the brilliant post-apocalyptic horror thriller released last year, is finally available to stream at home.

Accessible through the service NOW, 28 Years Later is the long-awaited follow-up to the hit films 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.

As the title suggests, the sequel mostly takes place 28 years after the Rage virus escaped a medical research facility in Cambridge. This virus transforms infected humans into angry, bloodthirsty, zombie-like monsters incapable of reasoning.

Nearly three decades after this incident, all of the United Kingdom is under strict quarantine, though pockets of people have managed to survive and form safe communities within the country.

12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams, excellent) is growing up with his parents, Isla and Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer), in one of these communities based on the real-life island of Lindisfarne, located off the northeast coast of England.

Also known as Holy Island, Lindisfarne is noteworthy for being connected to the mainland via a mile-long causeway accessible only at low tide.

Isla is suffering from an unknown illness,causing severe headaches,hallucinations,and memory loss.

As the sensitive Spike fears for his mother’s health, he is taken by the more macho Jamie to participate in a ritual for young boys on the island. The goal of the father-son adventure: travel across the causeway to the mainland to give Jamie his first chance at killing a zombie.

On the mainland, Jamie learns about ‘Alphas’, a new evolution of the Rage-infected who are smarter and stronger. He also hears rumors of Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes, great in a role that is hard to discuss without spoilers!), a former GP living on the mainland, believed to have gone insane.

Thinking Kelson may hold the key to saving his mother, Jamie…