’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ takes the franchise’s insane zombie horror to a new level

Fear is the new faith.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s long-awaited third chapter of their zombie-horror cinematic rush, 28 Years Later, finally made its debut in 2025, and it was a jolt of mania to the senses of film fans with its intensity and sheer barking madness. In a cinematic landscape where formula reigns supreme, 28 Years Later was a wild, punk rock watch, and now director Nia DeCosta is ready to take the franchise to an even stranger place with its follow-up chapter 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

Watch the all-new trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple:

Here’s the official synopsis:

n a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship – with consequences that could change the world as they know it – and Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. In the world of THE BONE TEMPLE, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival – the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.

Picking up immediately following the savage events of 28 Years Later, The Bone Temple will follow Alfie WIlliam’s Spike as he comes into the influence of twisted cult leader Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell), a deplorable, vindictive sadist cloaked in the image of the infamous and reviled Jimmy Saville, who has his own manic fifedom to rule over and who has his own deadly plans for this untamed, barren Britain.

This first teaser trailer gives audiences a taste of the madness that is to come, and it’s utterly wild in what is presented. Audiences will sit up and take notice! Ralph Fiennes also returns as the sympathetic, but crazed Dr Ian Kelson, who stumbles into Jimmy’s crazed plan, and it’s about to get even crazier.

Boyle, Garland and DeCosta are ready to step things up a notch when it comes to the lore and landscape of 28 Years Later, and this film looks like it will really smack audiences in the face.

Brace yourself for things to get mental when 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple arrives in cinemas on January 15, 2026.

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