Yes, this month also marks a significant anniversary for 28 Days Later, a patient zero of the modern zombie movie. And almost exactly 10 years before World War Z took our collective zombie fever to a planetary scale, a much smaller variant dripped into theaters, poisoning the collective bloodstream with its vision of humanity beset by swift ghouls and pushed to the brink of apocalypse. Of course, every plague begins with a first infection. At a budget of $200-million-plus, unprecedented for stories of the walking (or sprinting) dead, it felt like the peak of an outbreak - the moment when the genreās omnipresence metastasized into pure Hollywood spectacle. World War Z, starring Brad Pitt and hundreds of screaming extras, was the apotheosis of a craze that spread across 21st-century pop culture like, well, a highly contagious virus. Ten years ago this week, the biggest zombie movie ever made raced ravenously into multiplexes. Share (left) Brad Pitt in World War Z (right) Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later
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