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. It’s a scene that tests 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’s R-rating and tips the film briefly over into the splatter movie genre. And remarkably, it’s the one scene that doesn’t have any Infected in it.
Director Nia DaCosta was keenly aware that this was a sequence that could make or break the movie — and more likely break its audience. So she treaded carefully when it came to how gruesome she could go, but acknowledges that it was “tough.”
