28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
He's been training 28 years to get this right on the night
dir: Nia DaCosta
2026
That was… insane.
I thought pretty highly of 28 Years Later, but this second half caps this story off beautifully.
And what a deeply strange story it is.
Jack O’Connell has played evil fuckers for a good long while, and this character is probably one of his nastiest, and it follows closely on the heels of him playing another evil fucker in Sinners, only his prosthetic teeth here are far nastier, somehow.
This flick does not stand alone as a separate story, in that, someone watching this one without having seen the one from last year would have no fucking idea what’s going on, none whatsoever, although the same would not be said for someone who watched 28 Years Later without watching 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later.
That doesn’t detract from my enjoyment in the slightest. It picks up immediately where the previous flick ended, being poor Spike (Alfie Williams) being in the hands of the awful people who saved him from certain death at the hands of the infected.
These strange wig wearing weirdoes are the Jimmys, led by Lord Sir Jimmy Crystal (O’Connell), who forces his minions to wear ill-fitting, painful looking wigs, and to call themselves some variation of Jimmy, and do his infernal bidding. They are his Fingers, and he takes orders from Old Nick, who seems to tell him to do the same thing every time they come across uninfected survivors: torture then murder people.
Seems like a shitty way to spend the British apocalypse, but it’s not like Spike is given much of a choice. He is given the option of being able to die instead but as luck would have it he survives an altercation with a Jimmy that leaves that Jimmy dead and Spike alive.
Though maybe it would have been easier to just die already.
Completely separate from these Jimmy related shenanigans, that crazy orange guy at the ossuary is still doing his thing, being Dr Kelson (Ralph Fiennes, never better or weirder), who is determined to put every bone and skull in its right place in his monument to those lost in the epidemic.
