Cillian Murphy, star of Danny Boyle's upcoming SF horror film 28 Days
Later, told SCI FI Wire that he expected the movie to elicit the same kind of positive reviews and strong box office in America that it did upon its release in England late last year. "People have used the phrase
genre-busting to describe 28 Days Later," Murphy said in an interview. "You can obviously see elements of the classic zombie movies, and our zombies are so much more frightening than the traditional zombie-type characters. And then there are other levels to the movie."

28 Days Later is set in modern-day London, where animal rights
activists have accidentally unleashed a lethal virus that turns people into
murderous zombies, referred to as "the infected." Murphy, a young Irish
actor, stars as Jim, a bike messenger who joins a small group of survivors in a desperate effort to live another day and outlast the virus.

"Events in the world have overtaken this to such a degree that 28 Days
Later has a certain prescience that it might not have had before," Murphy said, alluding to the outbreak of the SARS virus that occurred after the film's completion. "It was a great idea that the virus is psychological rather than physical. It transfers biologically, through the blood, yet it preys on the mind. It's a very clever, terrifying premise for a movie." 28 Days Later will spread into theaters on June 27.