"Yet things somehow don't feel impossibly bleak. The marketing for the previous film ( one of 2025's best) leaned hard on eerie visuals like terrifying towers of bones and an orange-tinted Fiennes, looking unhinged. Once you saw the movie, though, the truth behind those images gave them an unexpected beauty: Those bones were actually meant as an ossuary, a memorial for those lost to the Rage virus, and Fiennes's character was a kindly doctor doing his best in dire times."
"In The Bone Temple, Dr. Ian Kelson continues tending to his memorial while entertaining himself with a hand-crank-powered record player, his vinyl collection including not just the aforementioned Duran Duran but also Radiohead and Iron Maiden. However, he also stumbles across a new hobby: getting acquainted with "Samson" (Chi Lewis-Parry), the Infected Alpha from the previous film who made an, ahem, big impression."
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the fourth installment of the horror franchise that began with 2002's 28 Days Later. Nia DaCosta directs a direct sequel set 28 years after the United Kingdom became a quarantine zone following the Rage virus, where survivors are scarce and sanity rarer. The film focuses on Dr. Ian Kelson, who tends an ossuary memorial while listening to vinyl classics and exploring an unlikely relationship with Samson, the Infected Alpha. Kelson's knockout drugs temporarily pacify Samson, expanding the franchise's approach to the undead. The film balances unsettling imagery with character-focused, often profound moments.
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