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The Backrooms vs 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Side-by-side Celluloid Scores, four-input breakdown, country/runtime context, and an editorial angle — built for quick answers and AI citation.

Quick Answer

Is The Backrooms or 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple the better watch?

Neither The Backrooms nor 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has a verified Celluloid Score yet. The Backrooms is horror, sci-fi from United States (87% critics); 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is horror from United Kingdom (91% critics). Compare release facts, trailers and casts below.

The matchup

The Backrooms is horror, sci-fi from United States (87% critics); 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is horror from United Kingdom (91% critics).

Side-by-side Celluloid Scores (four composite inputs plus a separate audience snapshot) for each film, plus runtime, country and genre — so you can see where critics and audiences diverge before choosing. The Backrooms runs 110 minutes (2026); 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple runs 109 minutes (2026).

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The Backrooms (2026)

Kane Parsons · Horror, Sci-Fi · 1h 51m

United States · English · May 29, 2026

Review pending — no verified score yet

Yes, with reservations. It is a patient, unsettling horror film for viewers who prefer atmosphere to jump scares, even if its mythology thins at feature length.

When a family vanishes through an ordinary office door into the endless yellow corridors of an internet-born nightmare, a search-and-rescue operation becomes something far more existential. YouTube sensation Kane Parsons makes his feature debut by grounding the Backrooms myth in real grief, institutional failure, and the terror of spaces that should not exist.

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)

Nia DaCosta · Horror · 1h 49m

United Kingdom · English · Jan 16, 2026

Review pending — no verified score yet

Yes. It is the franchise's most ambitious and unsettling chapter, ideal for horror fans who want ideas with their dread, though sprint-and-scream viewers may find it slow.

Decades after the rage virus reshaped Britain, faith, violence and survival have fused into something stranger than the infected. Alex Garland and Nia DaCosta trade sprinting zombies for ritual dread as Dr Kelson forms a startling new bond and young Spike falls into Sir Jimmy Crystal's clutches.

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Score breakdown

Signal The Backrooms 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
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Letterboxd 0 0
IMDb 0 0
Runtime 1h 51m 1h 49m
Country United States United Kingdom

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