28 Years Later is set nearly three decades after the first film, when a “rage virus” which disastrously infected humans escaped a biological weapons laboratory.
We meet a group of survivors in the third film, living in quarantine on a small island, having managed to avoid becoming infected.
But when one of them leaves the island on a mission to the mainland, he discovers secret horrors that have mutated not only those infected, but survivors as well.
The film’s tagline is: “Time didn’t heal anything.”
The trailer opens with a throwback to popular children’s TV show Teletubbies, which first aired in 1997, with several children gathered around an old TV as the chirpy theme tune plays innocuously – yet menacingly – in the background.
The action soon kicks off with several flashes of fight scenes as an ominous, rhymic recording of Rudyard Kipling’s war poem, Boots, is heard in the background.
A church has its windows smashed in, before the camera descends on a rural island featuring wooden crosses dotted across the earth with rosary beads hanging on them.
Some graffiti is seen on what looks like a farm dwelling: “Behold he is coming with the clouds” – a verse from chapter one of the Bible’s book of Revelation, with “Jimmy” scrawled next to it in white paint.
Could this be a reference to Murphy’s character Jim?