The capital is deserted and evidence of anarchy litters the streets - burning cars, looted shopfronts and an overturned Routemaster.
Amid the destruction walks a lone figure, dressed in a hospital gown, trying to make sense of it all.
This amazing image - if rather disturbing - is taken from the film thriller 28 Days Later, which has been voted as having one of the 10 greatest scenes featuring London.
Commissioned by London Underground to mark the start of the London Film Festival next week, the poll of 1,000 film buffs has an obvious winner: James Bond.
Pierce Brosnan's hairraising speedboat chase along the Thames in The World Is Not Enough was elected number one London movie moment of all time.
Moving from action flick to slushy romance, in second place was the kiss in the snow on a Bermondsey street between Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth in the tearjerking finale of Bridget Jones's Diary.
London's most famous landmark, Big Ben, features in third place in the climactic moments of 1978 thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps.
The remake of the classic Hitchcock yarn featured Robert Powell as Richard Hannay dangling from one hand of the clock to prevent a bomb from killing a politician in the Commons.
The poll also sees St Paul's squeeze into fourth place - with the "feed the birds, tuppence a bag" scene in Mary Poppins.
While 28 Days Later may sober the mood in fifth place, Austin Powers comes to the rescue with a mad dance routine around Carnaby Street (6th), and Julia Roberts's smile can be seen all over Notting Hill (8th).
The survey also asked for the most memorable fictional London landmarks in TV and film.
Out in front is Platform 93/4 at King's Cross station - the platform where Harry Potter sets off on his journey to Hogwarts School.
Second is Nelson Mandela House - the Trotter family's Peckham council residence in Only Fools And Horses.
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Hugh Grant's blue front door in Notting Hill is voted third favourite fictional destination - above Danger Mouse's postbox and the entrance to Q's secret laboratory in Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
An LU spokesman said: "Staff are regularly asked questions, such as where the famous Notting Hill blue door is, so we decided to ask people what their favourite fictional film and TV destinations were."
