800 movie tickets: Stephen King loved this movie so much that he booked an entire room to see it

Twenty years before Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy achieved great success with a film that, proportionally, was not in the same category at all. On a budget of just $8 million, it scored a 95: clearly a horror movie, 28 Days Later.

The action of the film takes place in London, which has become a ghost town inhabited by “contaminated”. The latter were attacked by a horde of chimpanzees carrying a secret virus being developed in a secret laboratory. Jimmy wakes up from his coma, discovers the situation and tries to survive…

28 Days Later will finally have a sequel… and even 3!

on its production, After 28 days It had such a terrible reputation that According to the film’s producer It is said that Andrew Macdonald, the master of horror Stephen King, bought all the tickets in the cinema, or 800 tickets, to organize a private screening.

It must be said that the Contaminated are very scary, thanks to director Danny Boyle’s choice to cast them as athletes to enhance their physically menacing side. Thanks to the lenses, they appear with bloodshot eyes and exhibit animalistic behavior, which immediately adds tension to the film: if Jim is discovered, he will join the tainted.

The film will have four endings, only one of which offers a true happy ending. This is the one that will be broadcast mainly in the United States, which will allow the film to become a huge success upon its release in 2003. In France, 28 days later it will receive 200,000 admissions after being kicked out of the competition by the Festival du fantastic. Gerard’s film.

Its sequel, after 28 weeks without Danny Boyle at the helm, achieved a lower score of $65 million worldwide, including 313,000 admissions from France.

Take a look at Danny Boyle’s beautiful shots: