Danny Boyle's 'stringent security measures' brought in to guard the 28 Days Later set have left ramblers 'jumping out their skin.' 

The director,67,is currently filming the third instalment for the post-apocalyptic horror series near Newcastle,but it's not the zombies that have scared locals. 

Residents have been given quite the fright after being 'shouted at' by a number of robots,who have been employed to guard the site. 

One neighbour told The Sun: 'Danny and his team had put in really stringent security measures on the site to make sure locals didn’t just walk into view.

'The area is really eerie and remote,but it’s used by a lot of ramblers.'

The film had been noted by members of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) to be 'very violent and gory' while not promoting or glorifying evil or violence (Cillian pictured in 2002)

In the 2002 film,the actor played a bicycle courier who wakes up from a coma only to find that an 'incurable virus had spread throughout the U.K.' and 'a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.' 

The sequel is slated to be the third instalment in the franchise and the first in an upcoming trilogy.

Danny,who directed 28 Days later,as well as original writer,Alex Garland,are also returning. The pair notably only served as executive producers on the second movie,28 Weeks Later (2007).

Both Danny and Alex are producing the new project alongside Andrew Macdonald,Peter Rice and Bernie Bellew,while Cillian is an executive producer.

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