Danny Boyle · 2002 · road

Danny Boyle's 2002 horror film, in which a bicycle courier wakes from a coma to find London deserted and Britain overrun by a rage virus. Joining a handful of survivors, he flees north in search of a military broadcast promising safety. A bleak, kinetic landmark of modern horror, famous for its images of an empty London. The journey runs from the silent capital up to a fortified house near Manchester.

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   London

   Jim wakes alone in a hospital and wanders out into an eerily deserted London, the city emptied by a virus that turns people to rage in seconds.

2. 2
   Manchester

   With a few other survivors he drives north up the motorway, chasing a recorded message that promises an answer to the infection.

3. 3
   The Blockade

   At a fortified country house outside Manchester they find soldiers, and a danger as great as the infected themselves.