28 Days/Weeks Later is the 597th episode of the Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert and Lon Harris. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later and its 2007 sequel, 28 Weeks Later. It was published on June 17, 2025, to coincide with the release of the sequel, 28 Years Later. It is 7 minutes and 45 seconds long. It has been viewed over 500,000 times.
Script[]
By now, you've seen sad zoms (shows the poster for The Walking Dead), rom-zoms (shows the poster for Warm Bodies), Rob Zoms (?) (shows the poster for The Lords of Salem), and zom-coms (shows the poster for Shaun of the Dead); really, every genre has been zombie-fied at this point. (shows the posters for Dead Snow, Zombie Strippers, and iZombie)
Olivia "Liv" Moore (iZombie): Draw the nipples, Jimmy.
Jimmy Hahn: ... ... ...
But back in '02, no one had ever seen a zombie do this. (montage of running infected) (shows a viewer attempting to adjust the video's quality to 1080p) Don't bother adjusting the quality; life was in 480p back then.
28 Days -- and also Weeks -- Later
In a world that seems angry enough already, scientists developed Rage, a virus that turns you into Conan O'Brien on Hot Ones.
Conan O'Brien: COME ON, MAN! ARE WE DOING THIS OR NOT?!
Sean Evans: Yeah, no, I'm with you!
Conan O'Brien: ARE WE DOING IT OR NOT?!
Sean Evans: (chuckles)
Now, London's filled with more angry vomiting men than after a Chelsea loss (montage of infected vomiting), and into this hellscape awakens... Jim. (shows Jim waking up naked in a hospital gurney) Good God, man; someone get him some pants! This bike messenger slept through all the expensive-to-film parts of the Apocalypse, but wakes up just in time to wander around for an hour like a kid who got separated from his parents. (montage of Jim yelling out "Hello?") They didn't use CGI for any of these empty shots; they just told people Katy Perry was about to perform.
Joining Team Jim is Selena and Mark.
Mark: Wait... (gets killed by Selena)
Joining Team Jim is Selena, a survivor who's so grim and traumatized, it takes her hours to realize how cute Cillian Murphy is. (shows Selena smooching Jim on the cheek) Together, they'll embark on a road trip with Frank and Hannah, who are as kind as they are in denial -- So... British?
Frank: (takes off a ski mask) So... (shakes Jim's hand)
-- and they'll all take a pleasant mid-movie drive that eases the tension long enough for you to think, "Sh*t, this is about to get real bad, isn't it?"
Hannah: Dad?
Infected Frank: KEEP AWAY FROM ME! (begins to tackle Hannah) KEEP AWAY FROM ME!
Maj. West: (holding Selena hostage) Then we're gonna find a nice little f*cking place [...] just you and me.
...Yyyep.
Selena: (administering CPR to Jim) F*CKING BREATHE!
They're bound for Manchester, where a radio broadcast promises safety, security -- (coughs) Forced breeding! -- and the cure for infection; but when they arrive, it's run by guys who take "The Future Is Female" a bit too literally...
Maj. West: --I promised them women. Because women mean a future.
...in an exploration of the never-before-explored idea that the real monsters might be, wait for it... Man. (shows a soldier making kissing sounds at Selena) And also the red-eyed ghouls who want to barf blood in your mouth (shows the infected Mailer vomiting into Pvt. Clifton's mouth), but mostly Man.
Then, stay tuned for the high-octane sequel (shows a group of infected getting incinerated in a bombing run), about how our pandemic response doomed the world, 'cause we got cocky and thought we didn't have to listen to scientists; (chuckling) can you imagine?
Scarlet: What if it comes back?
Stone: It won't come back.
Scarlet: What if it does?
After the initial outbreak, the U.K. has become the 51st state...
DLR Soldier: (on the P.A.) The U.S. Army is responsible for your safety.
...and our only hope is that Idris Elba sticks around long enough before he's snatched up by a zombie, or even more likely, takes a role in a much worse movie. (shows Idris Elba as Macavity in Cats)
This is Don -- Say hello to Don's little friend. (shows Don whacking an infected Karen with a crowbar) -- a family man who would probably have ditched his wife in a traffic jam, but a zombie apocalypse will do (shows Don leaving Alice to die as their house is overrun by infected), then lies about it to everyone...
Andy: What happened, Dad? To Mum?
Don: ...Yeah.
...setting up one of the sequels where they cram kids into the cast to screw things up.
Scarlet: No one told me that we're now admitting children.
And when these plucky morons leave the safety of the safe zone, they'll summon a wave of British Rage monsters faster than posting Brie Larson should be the next Bond (shows Don as a member of the infected chasing the survivors); they're still fast (shows a crowd of infected chasing survivors across a grassy field), they're still strong (montage of infected busting through doors), and they still don't so much as "eat you" as "bat you around like a house cat with a nearly dead bird". (shows the infected Don beating Alice and Scarlet to death)
So gather the whole family for a couple of huge downers...
Andy: (whispering to Tammy) I saw Dad. / He's one of them.
Andy: Do you think Mum's still alive?
Tammy: Not this time.
Hannah: Dad?
(shows Jim reading his family's suicide note and crying)
...in these zom-drams about the collapse of England, and only England... (montage of abandoned British cities)
Soldier: (throwing a box of Maltesers) Eat.
...that explores the impulse to survive at all costs, and paints us as the same irredeemable sh*ts we've always been.
U.S. Soldier: We found your kids.
Don: Oh, thank God, thank God. Thank you so much.
U.S. Soldier: We found your wife, too.
Don: ... ... ...
But hey, I mean... at least the French are okay? (shows an army of infected running towards the Eiffel Tower) Well, merde (shit).
Starring: Oppenhider (Cillian Murphy as Jim); Runnypenny (Naomie Harris as Selena); Literal Mad-Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson as Frank); 8 Simple Rules for Biting My Teenage Daughter (Megan Burns as Hannah); Doctor Hoo-Rah! (Christopher Eccleston as Major Henry West); Brainspotting (Robert Carlyle as Don); The Meal Housewives of Great Britain (Catherine McCormack as Alice); Byrne After Feeding (Rose Byrne as Scarlet); Mayor of Killstown (Jeremy Renner as Doyle); Get to the Choppa! (Harold Perrineau as Flynn); The Poot of All Evil (Imogen Poots as Tammy); Horrific Rim (Idris Elba as Stone); Loud Jump Scares! (montage of aggressive jump-scares in the films); Me After Every 3rd Scene in Oppenheimer...
Jim: You think I don't get it, but, um... I do get it.
...The Pilot Episode of The Walking Dead (montage comparing Jim adjusting to the post-apocalypse after waking up in an abandoned hospital to a similar scene with Rick in The Walking Dead); and The Future Disney Wants.
Selena: You'll never... read a book that hasn't already been written. Or... see a film that hasn't already been shot.
Rabies Day Out
The honest title for 28 Days/Weeks Later was ‘Rabies Day Out’. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
(shows Jim drinking a can of Pepsi) If I had a Pepsi every time a fast-moving zombie film shoehorned in a Pepsi, I'd have two crisp, refreshing Pepsis. (shows Gerry Lane drinking a can of Pepsi, then causing a vending machine to spill all of its Pepsi cans in World War Z)
Viewer's Comments[]
Say: "Punishments will continue until morale improves." - pauldiischer9765
For Sly Stone, please say, "Everybody is a star. One big circle goin' round and round." - jrcarter9175
Please say: "Any pizza can be a personal pizza if you believe in yourself" - MrGUnit27
Say "There's no way I am ever going to say that, and you can't make me." - cainster
Trivia[]
- The second comment in the viewer's comments pays tribute to Sly Stone, a musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the frontman of the band Sly and the Family Stone, who passed away on June 9, 2025, at the age of 82 due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- This is the second Honest Trailer in which Epic Voice Guy makes a reference to the famous “If I had a nickel for everytime…, I’d have two nickels” meme from the 2011 film, Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension. The first time was Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
Reception[]
Production Credits[]
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Lon Harris
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Post-Production Manager: Emin Bassavand
Manager, Content Operations: Tiffany Tse
Post-Production Specialist: Rebecca Castaneda
VP Content: Max Dionne