Director of new zombie horror heaps praise on Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, as he says it's "unavoidable" not to be influenced by the franchise: "It runs deep in my roots"

Daisy Ridley as Ava in We Bury the Dead.

Zak Hilditch has heaped praise on Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, admitting that he found it "unavoidable" not to be influenced by the hit franchise when he made new zombie horror We Bury the Dead.

"Not only did it revolutionize the zombie movie, I think it revolutionized cinema," the writer-director, who's perhaps best known for helming Netflix's 2017 Stephen King adaptation 1922, gushes to GamesRadar+. "That idea of elevated genre that then started banding about was leveled right at 28 Days Later. Danny Boyle… I'm such a Trainspotting die-hard… it was just like, 'Is this even happening? Can you do this? Can you shoot a movie and make it look bad on the [Canon] XL1? It is about the end of the world, so I'm kind of here for it?' No one saw that movie coming and it runs deep in my roots as a filmmaker."