
If the people thought that the rest of the world was exactly the same as Britain, they wouldn't try to escape, as it would be pointless to flee to another infected country.


He hypothesizes that the rumors of infection outside Britain were lies to keep the population controlled. This is never specifically clarified in the film, but the most likely explanation is related to what Sergeant Farrell ( Stuart McQuarrie) says in the first film. They do not eat, speak, rationalize, form new ideas or even determine how they will make their next move, instead acting purely on base instincts, and in this sense, they act very much like traditional zombies. But they are mindless drones who act in numbers, rather than individually. Romero-styled re-animated corpses that feed on uninfected flesh. With this in mind, "The Infected" are not the traditional "zonbi" of Haitian folklore, the living-dead of old Hollywood monster movies, nor the George A.
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Director Danny Boyle and scriptwriter Alex Garland both feel that the movie does depict zombies, but in a unique way not before seen according to Boyle, "I feel there was respect for the genre, but I hope that we freshened it up in some way" (Production notes for 28 Weeks Later, available here).

The idea of what constitutes a zombie has changed over the years through various forms of entertainment, including movies, TV shows, comic books, video games and more, and the definition is hotly debated among zombie fans.
