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Peter Suderman | 1.16.2026 11:31 AM

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a movie about the devil, who just happens to be a guy named Jimmy. 

A direct follow-up to last year's 28 Years Later, this zombie sequel picks up where the last one left off, with a young boy named Spike having encountered a clan of blonde-haired track-suit-wearing psychos, all of whom go by the name of Jimmy. The Jimmys take their name from their leader, a scraggle-toothed Brit played by Jack O'Connell, who wears an upside down cross and claims to be the son of Satan. 

In the movie's post-zombie-apocalypse timeline, the U.K. has been cordoned off by the world, left to deal with the infected undead all on their own. 28 Years Later used this as a sprawling quasi-metaphor for Brexit, immigration, and British independence, but The Bone Temple has other ideas on its mind. It's a movie about mystic evil and ordinary men,........

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