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The Infected (Rage Virus)

Also called: Rage-infected
FilmInfected, still aliveRunsA virus2000 to 2009

The Infected are people overtaken in seconds by an engineered virus that leaves them in a state of pure aggression. They sprint, they spread the disease through blood, and they are not dead. The film is credited with starting the zombie revival of the 2000s, although its director rejected the label.123

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First appeared
2002
Released 2002
Source work
28 Days Later (2002)
Danny Boyle (writer Alex Garland)
Age rating
R
Made in
United Kingdom
What causes it
A virus
A laboratory-made Rage virus escapes from research chimpanzees in Cambridge.
How you become one
Contact with infected blood or an attack; the victim turns within seconds.
How it moves
Runs
They run.
Weak spots
  • starvation

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2002

Released 2002

field notes

What the sources say

1

They are living people, not the dead, and the film shows them starving to death in time123

2

Boyle did not consider it a zombie film and drew on Ebola and rabies123

3

Shot mostly on Canon XL1 digital video, with London streets closed briefly at dawn123

4

Made for 8 million dollars and grossed 82.8 million123

5

The 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later added carriers who show no symptoms123

6

Credited with reinvigorating the zombie genre; its fast infected were widely influential123

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (runs), not a measurement.

You, walking about 5 km/h
You, jogging about 10 km/h
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h
The Infected (Rage Virus) about 24 km/h
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h

Sources

  1. 28 Days Later - Wikipedia
  2. 28 Weeks Later - Wikipedia
  3. 28 Days Later - Rotten Tomatoes

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