Pedro Pascal passionately takes his pick for which $80 million horror movie reignited the zombie genre

When post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us made its big-time debut on HBO earlier this year, there’s simply no denying that the zombie sub-genre was completely turned on its head as Pedro Pascal’s Joel Miller came face-to-face with a variety of zombie-like creatures. But before Pascal was bashing zombified brains in as Joel, he took it upon himself to name which larger-than-life horror movie kickstarted the genre in the first place.

In an interview with Variety, the acclaimed “Daddy” of the internet wasted little time in making his pick for which horror movie successfully “reignited” and “reinvigorated” the zombie genre. With his pick, Pascal chose 2002’s 28 Days Later — an action-packed post-apocalyptic extravaganza which eventually grossed nearly $85 million with a budget of just $8 million. Unapologetically, Pascal insisted that the movie is a “masterpiece” and that it eventually caused him “adventurous nightmares” that thrilled him.