The devastating rage virus that annihilated the British Isles
mysteriously resurfaces in Goya Award-winning director Juan Carlos
Fresnadillo's sequel to the Danny Boyle-directed horror hit that
terrified audiences worldwide by offering a breathless new take on the
familiar zombie mythos. Six months has passed since the rage virus
caused British residents to indiscriminately murder and destroy
everything in their paths, and now the U.S. military has declared
victory in the war against the rapidly
spreading infection. As the reconstruction process gets underway and
the first wave of refugees return to British shores, a family separated
by the devastation is happily reunited. During the initial outbreak, Don
Harris (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) sat
holed up with a small band of survivors in a remote farmhouse. Their
kids well out of harm's way at a remote boarding school, Don and Alice's
outlook for the future is decidedly bright until all hell breaks loose
in the country and Don just barely manages to escape the clutches of the
infected. The joy of later seeing his son Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton)
and daughter Tammy (Imogen Poots) as repopulation efforts get underway
in London is short-lived, however, when an innocent bid to reconnect
with the past sets into motion a tragic series of events. Now, just as
society struggles to sort through the rubble and rebuild London from the
ground up, the virus that nearly destroyed a nation strikes back with a
vengeance. Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, and Harold Perrineau, Jr. co-star
in the frightful sequel, which highlights the dangers of declaring
victory in the calm before the storm.
Directed By:
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
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