'28 Years Later: The Bone Temple's Most Brutal Scene Was "Tough" To Shoot

"For the most part, The Bone Temple is a much more lighthearted movie than its predecessor, 28 Years Later. It's largely a hangout movie between the good Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) and the Alpha Infected he's dubbed "Samson" (Chi Lewis-Parry). But one scene tips The Bone Temple over into a realm of brutality that no other movie in the 28 Days franchise has even touched."

"Toward the latter half of The Bone Temple, Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell) and his "Fingers" have forced their way into a farm and taken the family living there hostage. After toying with their emotions, they round their hostages up into a barn and string them up. That's where Sir Lord Jimmy gives the horrifying order: "Take their shirts off." The Fingers spend the next few hours skinning the hostages, some with their bare hands, others with knives or blunt instruments."

The Bone Temple generally adopts a lighter, hangout tone centered on Dr. Kelson and the Alpha Infected called Samson. A brutally violent sequence later in the film shifts the tone dramatically when Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal and his gang seize a farm family, force them into a barn, and order their shirts removed. The captors proceed to skin the hostages over several hours, using bare hands, knives, and blunt instruments. The film shows some explicit gore while sometimes cutting away to reactions, and the director approached the sequence cautiously because of its potential to overwhelm the audience and test the R-rating.

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