By George & Josh Bate

28 Years Later shook audiences with its striking visual flair and powerful emotions, especially in a gut-wrenching third act. Now, just six month after Danny Boyle’s return to the rage virus, select fans and critics have got their hands on the highly anticipated follow-up – 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
The film from director Nia DaCosta and writer Alex Garland hits theaters on January 16, 2026 but is already being described as “brutally audacious,” “phenomenal,” and “one of the best horror movies of the last decade.” Check out some initial reactions to the film below….
THE BONE TEMPLE is a brutally audacious follow up to 28 YEARS LATER that largely sidelines the infected to explore cultism, trauma, psychosis and compassion.
— Ryan Hollinger (@ryanhollinger) December 9, 2025
I really like its uncompromising, idiosyncratic ambition. It’s easily more polarising than 28YL.
Video coming in January pic.twitter.com/4KcKGSidml
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE deepens the franchise’s lore with new questions and some long-awaited answers in the quietest yet undeniably most brutal installment of the series. Ralph Fiennes is truly phenomenal here, adding new poetic layers of complexity to his character,… pic.twitter.com/BJabyCbOqS
— Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) December 10, 2025
Excuse my language, but I just got out of the first screening of #28YearsLater: #TheBoneTemple – and holy f*****g s**t. This has cranked everything up to 11 and I warn you, you will need a very strong stomach (or a sick bag). Also, Ralph Fiennes is truly phenomenal. pic.twitter.com/n6TybDXsPf
— Tori Brazier (@dinotaur) December 9, 2025
I’ll say it with my chest… 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is one of the best horror movies of the last decade. Gnarly, intense, and surprisingly tender. Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, and Chi Lewis-Parry, take a bloody bow. @SonyPicturesUK #28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple pic.twitter.com/rr7CjxIq4n
— Eammon Parks Jacobs (@EammonJacobs) December 9, 2025
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) –
— Giovanni Lago (@TheGiovanniLago) December 10, 2025
What if isolation is as erosive as the virus flowing through the infected’s veins? DaCosta’s introversion of this world juxtaposes so precisely with the groundwork laid before her by Boyle. Hard to imagine a better start to the new year. pic.twitter.com/8jAM4sNpHl
I think I can now say I saw 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE a while ago & it is a very entertaining & worthy sequel to the first film
— Jacob (@JacobFisherDF) December 10, 2025
The film also includes some of the best bonkers shit you’ll find in a film next year, I want one of these films annually for as long as I live pic.twitter.com/UyHG4fRi1L
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a great follow up to Danny Boyle’s recent sequel. Nia DaCosta recaptures the magic of the previous films with a propulsive story that utilises dynamic camerawork as it explores the cultish side of faith, religion, NHS and the balance between… pic.twitter.com/w8US703Yec
— Zak (@zakfilm) December 9, 2025
#28YearsLater THE BONE TEMPLE is exactly how you do a middle chapter of a trilogy. pic.twitter.com/AeQM9xBZeh
— Kat Hughes (@GizmoShikari) December 9, 2025