What would you do if the zombie apocalypse escaped from fiction? Do you have fantasies of epic survival, or would you simply lie down and accept the collapse of civilisation as people became ravening fiends? Alfie Williams doesn’t fancy his chances, but he’s willing to consider my thought experiment. “It depends on the infected,” he says in his soft Geordie burr, “If they're the fast ones, then that's it. You know, I'm 14, so I'd probably die straight away.”
Spoilers, but Williams doesn’t die in 28 Years Later where he plays Spike, a 12 year old growing up in a post-apocalyptic Northumberland. The UK has been ravaged by a virus that turns people feral and bitey, quarantined away from the rest of the world. The horror blockbuster is a long anticipated follow up to director-writer duo Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 2002 cult classic 28 Days Later and its somewhat divisive sequel 28 Weeks Later (Boyle directed the opening scene, but the project was mostly the work of director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and a team of different writers).
