28 Years Later: The Bone Temple [Movie Review]

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple [Movie Review] | When the movie aired, I was convinced I’d seen it before.

Then I realised it wasn’t 28 Years Later after all. Curious, I went to watch it straight away just to catch up on the sequel.

So, did it disappoint?

SYNOPSIS

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple(2026) Trivia

• Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman & Chi Lewis-Parry
• Director: Nia DaCosta
• Producer: Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernie Bellew, Danny Boyle & Alex Garland
• Production Company: Columbia Pictures, Decibel Films & DNA Films
• Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing 
• Release date: January 16, 2026
• Running time: 109 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United Kingdom & Unites States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 7.7/ 10
• Tomatometer: 92%
• Metascore: 81%
• The Bone Temple ossuary was crafted from about 5,500 cast skulls and 150,000 bones, all hand-assembled onto nearly 1,000 vertical supports to create its towering columns. 
• Samson was brought to life mainly through physical performance and prosthetics, with visual effects used only to enhance the actor’s unsettling human expression. 

After being “saved” by the Fingers, a roaming gang of fighters led by the theatrically devout Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, Spike is handed his initiation in blood. To be accepted, he has to kill. And he did. Jimmy Shite falls and he is now one of the Fingers. Crystal renames him Jimmy, just like the rest of the Fingers. Around him orbit the other Jimmys: the quietly conflicted Jimmy Ink and the feral Jimmima, each shaped by the same madness, just carved differently.

Elsewhere, Dr Ian Kelson is building the Bone Temple that rises from the aftermath of the rage virus epidemic, an ossuary of memory and mourning. The Alpha Infected known as Samson keeps returning but did not attack him. Kelson notices the pattern and his curiosity gets the best of him. Somehow, Samson allows himself to be sedated. He comes back. He does not attack. The two spend time together, with Dr Ian do the talking. When Samson whispers “moon,” Dr Ian believes that the disease is curable.

The Fingers raid a remote farm where according to his 'belief', the Old Nick  (aka Satan) demands skin, he says. In the barn, the Fingers obey his order and start skinning the family. Spike couldn't take it and went outside. Jimmy Ink follows him and somehow the duo bonds.

In the middle of the skinning, Cathy fights back and Tom burns the barn. Some Fingers died and Cathy manages to run. Spike begs to follow but she sees him as part of the Fingers. She knocks him down and chooses survival.

With numbers dwindling and faith thinning, Crystal grows desperate. Jimmy Ink convinces him that Kelson might be the Old Nick incarnate, mistaking iodine-stained skin and Samson’s looming presence as signs of his hellish throne and company. 

Who is the real monster here,  the infected or the believers?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• I love that this sequel shares more about Samson. 
• Be warned that there will be skins here, Satanic rituals and gore actions.

What I Don't Like:

• It could get a bit draggy - not so much action.

Will I Watch It Again: Sure, I don't mind watching it again.

Overall: 4.2/ 5.0

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