'28 Years Later' trailer is how you make a damn trailer

Stunned.
By Shannon Connellan  on 
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You'll never look at the Teletubbies the same way after watching the stunning, harrowing, blood-spattered trailer for 28 Years Later one of the biggest movies coming in 2025.

Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland reunite to instil their signature brand of existential, survivalist dread, one we've feasted on since 2002's Cillian Murphy-led 28 Days Later, one of the best British horror movies of all time.

Set (of course), 28 years after the events of the first two films (following 2007's 28 Weeks Later), the decimation of society after a contagious virus has not ebbed. This time, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes fend off zombies all while we get glimpses of the horrifying state of the world. Bone columns and skull pyramids? Churches filled with ravenous creatures?

Folks, this is how you make a damn trailer. And the film was reportedly mostly shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max?

How to watch: 28 Years Later opens June 20.

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Shannon Connellan

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about everything (but not anything) across entertainment, tech, social good, science, and culture.


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