Sneaked out to thousands of fans at screenings around the world a month prior to its official release, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has already received a rapturous welcome from the faithful. Nia DaCosta's film (working once again from a script by Alex Garland) picks up in the immediate aftermath of Danny Boyle's preceding chapter, but the two are tonally very different. Visceral and adrenalized from the off, this is by some way the wildest and the weirdest entry into the recently revived sort-of-zombie saga.
We begin minutes after the end of Boyle's film. Spike (Alfie Williams) is with the Jimmys – a murderous cult ghoulishly dressed in the image of the notorious sexual predator Jimmy Savile, who frequently proclaim a contraction of his catchphrase, "How's about that then?"
