The movie 28 Days Later was filmed in and around London, UK. The choice of the city was due to two things - the crew was from the UK, and the movie was shot on a very modest budget, so it would not have been possible to travel far. Second - the director needed to show abandoned but recognizable locations. That's why London was perfect, and since the team had little money and it would have been very expensive to block the main streets of London, the shooting in the center took place in the predawn hours, which is noticeable by the sun and lighting in the scenes. But one scene was filmed outside London. This is the scene where scientists release a group of infected chimpanzees. The filmmakers couldn't find suitable monkeys in the UK, so they went to Studgard, Germany, to shoot the movie.
Horse Guards Parade
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Street
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Intersection
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Scene where Jim walks out to the crossroads in front of the Royal Bank of Scotland. It's practically the center of the city, but there's still not a single living person there. He slowly walks straight down the automobile road, not understanding where he should go next and what the reason for the deserted streets is.
Timing: 00:11:33
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Scene was shot at the intersection of five streets in front of the bank. Usually it is one of the busiest intersections in London. The creators had to close the streets, because even in the dawn hours, when the movie was filmed there were a lot of people. As we can see it was filmed in those moments when glass skyscrapers were not erected behind the bank.
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The Royal Bank Of Scotland
Destroyed Bus
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Ruins
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Scene where Frank, Jim, Selena and Hannah, after a long journey, decide to stop and eat in nature and have a picnic. They choose a picturesque place near medieval ruins and during lunch they notice a herd of feral horses passing by.
Timing: 00:53:18
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Scene was shot near the ruins at Waverley Abbey, where a few walls of the former manor house remain near the large house. It is now a tourist attraction. The site was chosen for its beautiful landscapes - the ruins offer an excellent view of the meadows and the River Wey, which flows a few dozen meters away.
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Waverley Abbey
Tunnel (interior)
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Scene where Inside the tunnel, the company is stopped by an obstacle of abandoned cars, but is attacked by zombies.
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Apartment Building
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Scene where Jimmy and Sienna notice a working garland on the window of a house and decide to go inside the apartment, where they meet Frank and his daughter and find out how their household works.
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Street
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Pedestrian Bridge
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Scene where Jimmy goes to the shelter with two other survivors who tell him about what has happened in the world during his coma.
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Hospital (lobby)
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Scene where Jim is lying in the hospital, he was in a coma and stayed that way for 28 days. He gets out of bed and realizes that the hospital is abandoned, he goes down to the first floor, finds a drink and wanders the corridors, but does not meet a soul around.
Timing: 00:05:47
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Scene was shot at Middlesex Central Hospital, it has an interesting lobby architecture with lots of light. According to the plot of the movie, given that Jim goes out downtown, the hospital in the story is St. Thomas Hospital, it is located at Westminster Bridge, across from Big Ben.
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Westminster Bridge
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Scene where Jim walks across the deserted bridge.
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Scene was shot Westminster Bridge was designed by Thomas Page and opened in 1862 to replace the failing earlier span. The bridge consists of seven cast-iron arches with details by Charles Barry. It is the oldest standing river crossing in London.
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Westminster Bridge
Hospital (exterior)
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Scene where Jim walks out of the empty hospital, he wanders the corridors for a long time and finds no one. But there is no one outside either, he looks out into the parking lot, there are several ambulances and no one there. He decides to leave the hospital to explore the city.
Timing: 00:08:31
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Scene was shot at St. Thomas's Hospital, located off Westminster Bridge. It is a large hospital located in the very center of the city, i.e. at the real beginning of Jim's journey. This place is very crowded, and the parking lot is always full, so the director shooting here wants to show us the contrast between reality and the empty corridors and the street in front of the building.
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St Thomas' Hospital
Church
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Scene where Jim continues to explore the empty town and peeks into the church, he stands on an interior balcony and observes from above that there are hundreds of corpses on the first floor. But they begin to come to life and an infected walks onto the balcony. This is his first encounter with zombies.
Timing: 00:14:19
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Scene was shot at St. Anne's, which is a small Catholic church in the Limehouse district. What is interesting is that it is one of the few locations in the movie that is not in reality where it is in the story. Limehouse is a neighborhood to the east of central London and it's quite far to get there from the route the main character takes. Obviously, the more famous churches in the city center didn't fit because they didn't have a large balcony inside the building or they didn't want to do the zombie shoot indoors.
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St Anne's Church
Waterloo Bridge
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Scene where Jim continues his journey through the abandoned city center, if you trace his route, he crosses the Thames for the second time, now in the opposite direction, the first time he went across Westminster Bridge to Big Ben, i.e. north, now he goes south. On the bridge you can notice an abandoned truck, which is strange - usually they are forbidden to enter the city center.
Timing: 00:11:09
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Scene was shot on Waterloo Bridge, which is a large arch bridge that is one across from Westminster Bridge, so it would have taken Jim about 15 minutes to get here. The second bridge appears in the shot showing us that the hero is wandering without purpose, exploring the deserted city, as he crosses the river a second time, i.e. back in roughly the same direction he came from.
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Waterloo Bridge
Entering the tunnel
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Scene where the whole company - Jimmy, Sienna, Frank and his daughter drive a specially prepared car to the asylum and come to a car tunnel. They have doubts about whether it is safe to drive through the tunnel, as it may be filled with infected people, but they decide it is worth the risk and drive through it.
Timing: 00:43:40
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Scene was shot the Blackwall Tunnel is a road running under the Thames, connecting Greenwich and the northern part of the city, and also leading to the highway on the way out of the city. Perhaps that's why the tunnel appears in the shot, as the characters want to go far north, but in general it's not the only way to cross the river. The scene was shot at the southern entrance on the Greenwich side.
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Piccadilly Circus
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Scene where Jimmy continues to wander through the center of London and comes to a car ring. In its center is a large structure completely covered with advertisements. He walks closer and sees a huge number of missing persons notices, funeral notices and posthumous notes. He begins to realize that a tragedy has occurred.
Timing: 00:12:29
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Scene was shot on Piccadilly Circle is a traffic circle in the center of the city. The bulletin board used to be the site of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, originally located in the center of the circle, but it was later moved due to road realignment. The location is added to the movie not only as a calling card of London, but also as a crowded place, contrastingly deserted in the shot.
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Canary Wharf Station
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Scene where Jim along with the two survivors who brought him up to speed and accepted him into their gang escapes from the zombies and goes down into the subway, the escalators don't work and so they have to run down the stationary stairs.
Timing: 00:17:38
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Scene was shot at Canary Wharf station on the London Underground's Jubilee Line, built in 1999 to accommodate the rapidly growing number of passengers. The station was chosen for filming also because of its location, as it is in the center of the city.
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Canary Wharf Station
Supermarket Budgens
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Scene where A group of survivors are driving their "cab" around London when they notice a Budgens supermarket nearby. They decide they need to stop by and pick up some food for their long journey. Lucky for them, the store has lights and full shelves of food and drink.
Timing: 00:47:18
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Scene was shot in the center of London in a Lidl store, which is a big grocery store. It was chosen also because it is in a realistic location, if they wanted to go to the northwest, their way out of the tunnel could realistically pass through this point.
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Steps
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Scene where Jim walks down the stairs and sees a pile of garbage with a large amount of money in large denomination bills. He rushes to collect the money and put it in his soda bag, not yet realizing that money has no value in the world anymore.
Timing: 00:10:43
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Scene was shot on the stairs leading up to the Duke of York Monument, a monument located near Trafalgar Square. The monument itself is located on a granite column 37 meters high and was erected in 1833. This is the most prestigious area of London since the time of Henry the 8th, i.e. more than 300 years, which is why the scene with the thrown money was filmed here to emphasize the meaninglessness of money and material things in the new world.
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Duke of York Monument
Tracks
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Scene where Jim convinces Selena and Mark to go with him to the house. He wants to see for himself that his family is dead and he has nowhere else to go. But they decide to walk along the railroad trestle to reduce the chance of being attacked by the infected.
Timing: 00:21:51
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Scene was shot were filmed at the station "South Quay", which belongs to the subway - it's a branch leading from the center to the north of the city in the bedroom districts, on which you can actually get to Jim's house. So even here the creators observe realism in geographical selection of locations.
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