28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

There are always so many things to say about a really good film. 

I haven’t felt so teeteringly sick with gory terror since The Green Room and that was white-knuckle fun. The gore in this film was wrenchingly, realistically shot. 

It’s amazing to see a franchise form be so well executed by different artistic visions. Imagine what could come of other franchises learning that you can give artistic license to tell new stories in very different ways in the same world!

Whereas the first in this series was novel videography and guttural, emotional terror, this film was traditional gore turned up to 11 with a damn interesting plot line pulling you through.  Kelson’s journey kept my wheels turning the whole time. His view of all the world’s people as just patients in one form or another will continue to sink in. 

And like all the good films in this franchise, it isn’t about the zombies, and its message is the same: 

Are you Old Nick (Satan)?
I’m not. No one is.
There’s just us.