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* The bit when Jim goes into the church and he passes a huge part of graffiti saying [[TheEndIsNigh 'THE END IS EXTREMELY FUCKING NIGH']] and finds the entire floor of the church covered in bodies but when he softly says "hello", some of them sit up and stare up at him with gaping mouths and those vacant red eyes.

With the combined efforts of Danny Boyle (director), Alex Garland (writer), and Andrew Macdonald (producer), ''28 Days Later'' provides one hell of a scare-fest through and through.

*** Psychology Research - The causes of particular behaviors are still not universally known, understood, and accepted. The purpose of the research may have been to determine the causes and neural structures involved in anger disinhibition to potentially create treatments or cures for people with anger management issues, psychopathy, or sociopathy. Since the easiest way to trace the source of a malfunction is to turn it UpToEleven, the Rage virus may have been a simple diagnostic tool to help researchers home in on what they needed to find.

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*** The ''real'' nightmare is the realization it took them ''only a month'' to reach that state, from what was passable and adjusted to preparing a gang rape of a girl that can barely be even called a teenager. Though the fact that all the threats are directed at Selena might suggest even they weren't actually willing to go ''that'' far.

* Mailer. Particularly in the shot where one of the soldiers looks out the window and finds Mailer staring right back in at him.

** [[spoiler: And then the infected boy attacks him, uttering the only line spoken by infected and forcing Jim to bash his head open, despite being relatively easily subdued]]. The single line said by him and his general defenseless makes the kill all that more impactful.
*** Another Terrifying possability due to this scene, [[spoiler: Children aren't as naturally attuned to rage as adults, and even less to to the concept of murderous rage, the Child being able to speak may be due to his age meaning he just can't summon up the actual rage the virus is trying to induce, unlike adults who turn into berserkers children are just in constant temper tantrum mode.]]
* Mailer. Particularly in the shot where [[spoiler:one of the soldiers looks out the window and finds Mailer staring right back in at him.]]
* [[spoiler:Those soldiers. There's one scene where Hannah and Selena are sitting on a small couch, terrified, being slowly circled by a bunch of rapist soldiers who are probably mentally drawing straws to see who goes first...and they dressed the girls in ball dresses. It's bad enough that they're tricking desperate women into being their {{sex slave}}s, but they're also trying to pretty them up first. Why would they add that extra disturbing dimension to what already is a disgusting horror?]]

** The reasoning only adds to the horror: [[spoiler:They're trying to desperately imagine some sense of civility to it. Remember the original reason that West promised them women: not for sexual release, but for children. For some sense of a future.]]
*** Made more horrifying by the fact that one can see how this would happen. As far as they knew they were the only living humans in Britain. It's not implausible that [[spoiler:nine men]], having seen the initial effects of the outbreak and then been holed up with each other for a month, might start to lose it.
*** The ''real'' nightmare is the realization it took them ''only a month'' to reach that state, from what was passable and adjusted to [[spoiler: preparing a gang rape of a girl that can barely be even called a teenager. Though the fact that all the threats are directed at Selena might suggest even they weren't actually willing to go ''that'' far]].
* Don't mess with Jim. He'll [[spoiler:[[EyeScream gouge your eyes out. With his thumbs]]]].

* When [[spoiler:Frank]] is infected and urges [[spoiler:Hannah]] to stay away.
** [[spoiler:Frank's]] infection in general, and its implications about the Rage virus. The body had clearly been there for awhile. His only exposure was [[spoiler:a single drop of infected blood in his eye]]. And the virus ''still'' takes effect within 30 seconds. Exactly how long can this thing survive without a living host?
* [[spoiler: The Rage infectees slowly dying of starvation]]

* The death of [[spoiler:Mark]]. While he does have a wound on his arm and it's plausible infected blood got into it, the Rage virus also seems to take it's victims over very quickly. By contrast he shows no symptoms of infection for a good 30 seconds and even speaks in a calm and normal manner. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this is not enough to stop Selena brutally hacking him to death with a machete just in case.]]

* The dinner scene. The entire room is full of rotting corpses, including the mother holding onto her baby. With each passing second, Jim himself realizes it wasn't just stupid to get inside, but he will probably never be able to wipe that image from his memory now.

*** It was actually explained that the Rage virus was an experiment that went horrifyingly wrong, what they were actually trying to make was a rage ''inhibitor'' for use on more violent prisoners and the like, but something went wrong and instead of calming people down, it most definitely did the opposite, then the government tried to take a look at weaponizing it, and for added horror, the lab tech at the start? he ''purposely'' called the AnimalWrongsGroup to break the chimps out, knowing what was wrong with them.

* The death of [[spoiler: Mark]]. While he does have a wound on his arm and it's plausible infected blood got into it, the Rage virus also seems to take it's victims over very quickly. By contrast he shows no symptoms of infection for a good 30 seconds and even speaks in a calm and normal manner. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this is not enough to stop Selena brutally hacking him to death with a machete just in case.]]

*** It was actually explained that the Rage virus was an experiment that went horrifyingly wrong, what they were actually trying to make was a rage ''inhibitor'' for use on more violent prisoners and the like, but something went wrong and instead of calming people down, it most definatly did the opposite, then the government tried to take a look at weaponizing it, and for added horror, the lab tech at the start? he ''purposely'' called the AnimalWrongsGroup to break the chimps out, knowing what was wrong with them.

** To add more fear to the Rage Virus in comparison to ''any'' other "zombie" virus: The Infected don't want to eat you nor feast on your flesh: They just ''want to '''fucking kill you''' with any chance they got''. It is literally as the old saying of seeing a "red filter" over your eyes.

* The death of [[spoilers: Mark]]. While he does have a wound on his arm and it's plausible infected blood got into it, the Rage virus also seems to take it's victims over very quickly. By contrast he shows no symptoms of infection for a good 30 seconds and even speaks in a calm and normal manner. [[spoilers: Unfortunately, this is not enough to stop Selena brutally hacking him to death with a machete just in case.]]

* "In the House - In a Heartbeat". The alternating piano notes, the guitar chords, over and over again...an EarWorm made of NightmareFuel.

*** The ''real'' nightmare is the realization it took them ''only a month'' to reach that state, from what was passable and adjusted to [[spoiler: preparing a gang rape of a girl that can barely be even called a teenager]].