"Fiennes's dance to Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast is basically one of the most extraordinary moments of his career. At the screening I attended, we were on our feet, looking for a speaker bin to headbang into. The band surely has to rerelease this track with Fiennes's performance as a new official video. His Voldemort was never so freaky. It is just so exhilarating to see this intergenerational face-off between such superb actors as Fiennes and O'Connell."
"Bone Temple is the best for an interesting reason because the zombies are almost entirely irrelevant and are at a minimum. The always slightly dull business of zombieism is de-emphasised, and what counts is the conflict between sentient human beings. In the preceding film, set 28 years on from the original zombie-infection outbreak, a kid called Spike (Alfie Williams) leaves the quarantined safety of Holy Island off England's north-east coast for the zombie-infested mainland."
Bone Temple is a fourth installment in the 28 Days Later series that follows immediately on from 28 Years Later. Nia DaCosta directs while Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell deliver intense, intergenerational performances. Fiennes performs a memorable dance to Iron Maiden's 'The Number of the Beast', creating one of his most extraordinary on-screen moments. The film minimizes traditional zombie action and shifts focus to conflict among sentient humans, making zombies largely irrelevant. A key arc continues from the preceding film, where Spike leaves quarantined Holy Island for the zombie-infested mainland. The narrative centers on a doctor who constructs a bone ossuary monument to fallen humanity and on transformations that blur the line between living and undead.
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