Leave it to Danny Boyle to make zombies terrifying and hung — but child protection laws had other ideas.

Due to Alfie Williamsn — who plays Spike – being just 12 years old during filming, the Child Sex Offenses Act would not allow full nudity when a minor is on set. Meaning that all the zombie dicks in Boyle’s latest apocalypse thriller are prosthetic.

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He admitted the legalities turned it a “nightmare.” Yes, that’s the real nightmare here: fake penises… not flesh eating zombies.

Speaking to People, Danny said: “I mean, if you’re recently infected, you’d have some clothes, but if you’ve been infected for a long time, the clothes would just disintegrate with the way that you behave.”

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Fans react

“28 Years Later is a hauntingly beautiful, deeply affecting evolution of the franchise. There’s horror and dread, but also strangely stunning moments of beauty and a giant zombie dong. Well worth the wait.”

“28 Years Later was f*cking great and all but why was that alpha so damn hung omg just slinging that thing around chasin people,” another wrote.

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