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‘28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE’ A Funky Continuation of the Infection

After escaping a tumultuous coming‑of‑age under his father’s forceful hand and delivering his ailing mother to her final resting place, Spike (Alfie Williams) has now taken up with a band of satanists. In 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Nia DaCosta’s sequel to last year’s reinvention of the franchise, a movie that picks up right where the last one left off and carries on its meditative yet unabashedly goofy vibe, Spike finds himself in a new kind of “kill or be killed” situation. Under his eye, Spike is forced to duel a member of Lord Jimmy Crystal’s (Jack O’Connell) death cult that has just taken him in, where survival means becoming part of the tribe. Or, as they put it, one of the fist’s many fingers. As Spike soon discovers, though, being a member of a death cult isn’t much better than just being dead. After all, what’s worse: dying, or losing a piece of your soul in order to survive? Read More