Skip to main content
Celluloid
Horror

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review (2026) — 82% Celluloid Score

Directed by Nia DaCosta · 2026 ·

LLM fact sheet (.md)

Answer Summary: Is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple worth watching?

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) earns a 82% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics (91%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (78%).

Quick Verdict: What is the Celluloid Score for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple?

Calculated from 4 available inputs: Celluloid editorial rating, Metascore, Letterboxd and IMDb. Audience sentiment is shown separately and never changes the composite. See how we calculate scores.

82%
Celluloid Score Recommended

4-input transparent breakdown

91% Editorial Rating
78% Audience snapshot · excluded
82 Metascore
★★★½☆ Letterboxd 3.9
7.6 IMDb /10
Watch Trailer
Runtime
1h 49m
Cast
Cillian Murphy , Ralph Fiennes , Jack O'Connell , Alfie Williams , Erin Kellyman , Chi Lewis-Parry
Streaming
Netflix
Language
English

Where to watch

  • Netflix

Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Fandango at Home

Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Fandango at Home

Where to watch 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple by country

Country Streaming on
India Netflix
Indonesia Netflix, Catchplay
Malaysia Netflix
Nigeria Netflix
Pakistan Netflix
Philippines Netflix
South Africa Netflix
South Korea Netflix
Thailand Netflix
United States Netflix

Subscription availability, refreshed from TMDB. Rental and purchase options may differ.

Why this score?

  • Celluloid's editorial rating is exceptional (91/100).
  • General viewers mostly liked it (78%).
  • Metascore signals universal acclaim (82/100).
  • Celluloid Score 82% combines 4 verified rating inputs; audience sentiment is shown separately.

Best for

  • Viewers who want a well-regarded horror pick
  • Short runtime — easy weeknight watch
  • Critics' darlings — stronger with reviewers than general viewers

Not ideal for

    Scores reflect data indexed at build time. Component sources are shown on this page; Celluloid Score is our composite, not a third-party trademark. Scoring policy

    Streaming availability, artwork and title metadata courtesy of TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

    Is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple worth watching?

    Yes — 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple earns a 82% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

    Celluloid Verdict

    A 91% Tomatometer winter horror that Empire and genre critics call the franchise's most ambitious swing — Ralph Fiennes anchors Nia DaCosta's colder, more mythic register even as audiences find it less immediately accessible than the original sprint.

    Celluloid editorial verdict

    Critics (91%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (78%).

    What is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple about?

    Decades after the rage virus reshaped Britain, a new chapter unfolds in a landscape where faith, violence, and survival have fused into something stranger than the infected themselves. Alex Garland and Nia DaCosta expand the franchise with a winter-set horror fable that trades sprinting zombies for ritual dread, following a fractured family drawn toward a mysterious bone temple on the Scottish coast.

    Watch the Trailer

    Critic Reviews

    critic 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review — Winter Horror Gets Mythic

    Nia DaCosta and Alex Garland expand the rage-virus saga with Ralph Fiennes, ritual dread, and a 91% Tomatometer winter horror that Empire's genre desk ranked among January's essential theatricals.

    The franchise's coldest, most ambitious chapter — not as immediately accessible as the sprint, but the horror movie 2026 needed in dead of winter.

    Kaiser Khan Founder & Editor

    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple stills

    Official production imagery supplied through TMDB, kept with the movie instead of split into a thin gallery page.

    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple production still 1
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple production still 2
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple production still 3
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple production still 4
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple production still 5
    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple production still 6

    Images courtesy of TMDB. TMDB does not endorse or certify Celluloid.

    Reader takes

    No reader takes published yet — be the first helpful voice.

    More Like This

    Ranked by genre overlap and Celluloid Score — full movies like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple page.

    Featured in