I went in hopeful but cautious - and honestly, '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' is so good. It doesn't coast on nostalgia or try to out-shock the originals for the sake of it. It feels confident, strange, and properly alive. From the opening moments it's tense, trippy, and relentlessly unsettling in that very '28 Days' way - you're on edge the whole time, but never bored. The villain is genuinely fascinating. Not just scary, but interesting - the kind that gets under your skin because they feel disturbingly plausible. There's real menace there, layered with ideology and madness, and it gives the film a psychological bite that elevates the gore rather than drowning in it. And yes, it's gory - grim, visceral, and brutal - but it's purposeful. Nothing drags, nothing feels indulgent. Most importantly, this is a worthy sequel. It respects the DNA of the franchise while pushing it somewhere darker and weirder, and I loved seeing it thrive rather than limp along. Proof that this world still has stories worth telling - and that the virus still hits just as hard all these years later.

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