28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 horror movie directed by Nia DaCosta, with a running time of 1h 49m. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell and Alfie Williams.
Britain remains sealed off, decades into the rage-virus quarantine. Nia DaCosta directs Alex Garland's script, picking up straight after 28 Years Later. Spike, the boy from the last film, falls into the orbit of a self-styled prophet named Jimmy Crystal and his cult, while Dr. Kelson forms an unexpected bond with an Alpha Infected called Samson. Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell and Alfie Williams anchor a story about faith curdling into something monstrous. The infected still run and swarm, but the real dread grows from the people who have decided the apocalypse is holy.
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What is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple about?
Britain remains sealed off, decades into the rage-virus quarantine. Nia DaCosta directs Alex Garland's script, picking up straight after 28 Years Later. Spike, the boy from the last film, falls into the orbit of a self-styled prophet named Jimmy Crystal and his cult, while Dr. Kelson forms an unexpected bond with an Alpha Infected called Samson. Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell and Alfie Williams anchor a story about faith curdling into something monstrous. The infected still run and swarm, but the real dread grows from the people who have decided the apocalypse is holy.
When was 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple released?
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was released on 14 January 2026.
How long is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple?
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple runs 1h 49m.
Who made 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple?
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was directed by Nia DaCosta.
Where can I watch 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple?
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is available on Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home and FlixFling.
Where to watch 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Stream: Netflix
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, FlixFling
Buy: Fandango at Home
Cast
- Ralph Fiennes as Dr Kelson
- Jack O'Connell as Sir Jimmy Crystal
- Alfie Williams as Spike
- Erin Kellyman as Jimmy Ink
- Chi Lewis-Parry as Samson
- Emma Laird as Jimmima
- Maura Bird as Jimmy Jones
- Sam Locke as Jimmy Fox
- Robert Rhodes as Jimmy Jimmy
- Ghazi Al Ruffai as Jimmy Snake
- Connor Newall as Jimmy Shite
- Mirren Mack as Cathy
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For the same slow-rot dread of a ruined country, The Last of Us turns an infected wilderness into a father-daughter road story. On TV, The Walking Dead tracks survivors whose worst threat is other people, and FROM traps its cast in a town ruled by whatever comes after dark.
Viral outbreaks that turn ordinary people into something worse
Bone Temple keeps Britain sealed behind a virus that turns victims feral rather than dead, and this quartet mines the same dread. The Last of Us and Days Gone turn that outbreak into playable survival, The Walking Dead stretches it across a slow-burn apocalypse, and The Girl with All the Gifts asks what's left of a person once the infection has taken hold.
Self-declared prophets whose righteous rules turn people into monsters
Bone Temple's cult leader Jimmy Crystal treats survival as a holy calling, and these six show how fast that conviction turns violent. The Purge franchise (Election Year, The Forever Purge, The First Purge) dresses ritual slaughter as national purification, Saw III and Saw V run on Jigsaw's own twisted moral code, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It grounds the same idea in a real courtroom.
Walled survivor enclaves holding the line against what's outside
Spike's Britain survives behind a naval quarantine line, and these four imagine other last outposts holding their own perimeter. Land of the Dead and Resident Evil: Extinction fortify cities against the infected dead, The Book of Eli follows one man crossing a scoured wasteland toward a walled sanctuary, and Arcadian traps a father and sons defending an isolated farmhouse after everything else has fallen.