That night, two of the infected see a candle Jim lights in the kitchen and attack. The next morning, Selena and Mark accompany Jim to his parents' house where he discovers that they have committed suicide. They also explain that infection has been reported in Paris and New York City. It is a virulent, bloodborne virus that sends its hosts into a state of extreme rage. There, they reveal that while Jimwas comatose from his accident, an unknown virus spread uncontrollably among the populace, turning most people into rabid, psychotic "infected," resulting in societal collapse. They rush him to their hideout in the London Underground. Profoundly indebted to George Romero's zombie trilogy, but brusque and brutal in comparison, it clicks on urban alienation, social paranoia, viral and bacterial terror, pollution and contamination, but homes in on the idea that the greatest threat may be fear itself. Barely conceiving of a world beyond Britain, this is a very insular movie, but none the worse for that. An apocalyptic psychological horror film, shot on DV and peopled with newcomers, this marks a sharp volte face for the globe-trippers behind The Beach. They haven't seen another living human being for days, they say. Survivors Selena (Harris) and Mark (Huntley) bring him up to speed. When Jim ( Murphy) awakes from a coma it's as if he's still in the throes of some frightening fever dream: Robinson Crusoe in Piccadilly Circus. Twenty-eight days have passed since the Rage virus was unleashed four weeks which have decimated the population. Except that those same streets seem so preternaturally quiet. The streets of London are terrorised by blood-crazed maniacs - nothing new there then. They take his body to the cab and leave Manchester. Selena and Hannah rush Jim to a deserted hospital, where Selena performs life-saving emergency procedures, but to no avail, as he falls into the coma again. She then drives away with Jim and Selena. Hannah commandeers the cab and backs it up to the front door, where Mailer drags West out through the rear window and kills him. Selena mistakes Jim for an infected and raises her machete to kill him, but when she hesitates, Jim remarks, "That was longer than a heartbeat." The two kiss, reunite with Hannah, and run to Frank's cab, only to encounter a vengeful West, who shoots Jim in the stomach. Selena, held hostage by Corporal Mitchell (Ricci Harnett), is then rescued by Jim, who arrives and savagely kills Mitchell with his bare hands. Mailer attacks the soldiers in the mansion, while Jim sets out to rescue the girls, who had been split up in the chaos. After luring West and one of his men to the blockade and ambushing them, Jim runs back to the soldiers' headquarters where he unleashes Mailer, an infected soldier whom West kept chained outside for observation. After his escorts quarrel after killing Farrell, Jim manages to escape. Selena and Hannah are made to dress in evening wear and prepare for rape, as two soldiers lead Jim and Farrell to be executed.