28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE

Name: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
Item: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
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"Satanist Gets His Comeuppance, But. . ."

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is the fifth movie in a horror movie franchise about a virus that’s turned most of humanity into raging, cannibalistic monsters. Dr. Kelson, an atheist scientist, has discovered iodine can ward off the virus. He also has found that opiates, like morphine, can ameliorate its effects. Using morphine, Kelson has subdued and befriends a large muscle-bound man he’s named Samson. However, his morphine is running out. Meanwhile, Spike, the young teenager from the previous movie, has found safety in a group of young people led by a man named Jimmy Crystal. However, Jimmy Crystal calls himself a Satanist and leads a murderous cult. Spike’s life has become a nightmare he can’t escape.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE has some gripping and touching, positive and hopeful moments. These moments include Christian, morally uplifting and redemptive content. Happily also, the evil Satanist gets his comeuppance. However, these moments are marred by extreme violence and nudity, lots of strong foul language, and a strong humanist attitude in parts of the movie. THE BONE TEMPLE is excessive and unacceptable.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong mixed pagan worldview with humanist, demonic, morally uplifting content in an apocalyptic nightmarish world with disparate characters, including an atheist scientist, a psychotic Satanist cult leader with a case of arrested development, a female cult member who’s beginning to have doubts about the Satanist cult leader’s claims to be talking to Satan, a huge man who’s been infected by a virus that’s turned him into a raving murderous cannibal, and a young compassionate teenage boy who’s just trying to find shelter from a world gone insane, but there is Christian, moral content and Christian, biblical references, including references to Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, scientist calls a large man Samson because of his muscles and height and long hair, the Satanist leader gets his comeuppance in a fitting manner, and man infected by the virus finds healing and redemption and expresses gratitude, but the Christian content is too undeveloped to give viewers a really good or reliable spiritual foundation;

Foul Language:

At least 66 obscenities (including 51 or so “f” words), three strong profanities mentioning the name of Jesus Christ, one light profanity, and two vomiting scenes;

Violence:

Extreme graphic violence includes people infected by a rage virus attack uninfected people and bite them, a large man (described as an “alpha male”) infected by the virus rips off other man’s head and spine and then eats the brains, Satanist cult leader forces teenage boy to engage in a knife fight, and the boy accidentally cuts another guy’s femoral artery, but the cult leader orders his six remaining minions to let the guy bleed to death, Satanic cult invades a family farmhouse, and leader threatens the people there, Satanic cult leader orders his minions to string up the family in the barn and skinning them alive, the young man in the family escapes and starts a huge fire, and the cult leader loses more of his members, a brutal fight to the death follows with people running out of the barn on fire, and a young woman who wasn’t in the farmhouse when the people were taken hostage fights back but she eventually just runs away, more violence occurs in the movie’s final scenes;

Sex:

No sex scenes or sexual references, though movie hints that teenage hero and heroine may become romantic at some point (there’s another sequel coming);

Nudity:

Two men are often shown fully naked in the movie’s first half, at least one woman attacking other people is shown fully naked, plus other scenes with upper and rear male nudity;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking, but scientists uses morphine darts from a makeshift blowgun to subdue large infected man, and he befriends the man and uses morphine to subdue and calm him down; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Satanic cult takes people captive to torture them to death, and atheist scientist makes a deal with Satanist cult leader to save his life but decides to turn the tables on him.

More Detail:

What do you get when you put together a Satanist psychopath, a compassionate atheist scientist, a wandering boy with a good heart, a young woman trying to escape a Satanist cult, and a large man infected with a virus that’s turned him into a raving cannibalistic lunatic? Well, you might just get 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, an ultraviolent horror movie sequel about some people in Britain trying to survive in a world where most people have been infected by a rage virus that’s escaped from a lab. 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE has some gripping and even touching, positive and hopeful moments, with Christian, moral and redemptive content that includes a scene where the Satanist gets his comeuppance, but these moments are marred by extreme violence and nudity, lots of strong foul language, and a strong humanist attitude in parts of the movie.

In the story, Dr. Kelson, the atheist scientist, has discovered that iodine can ward off the virus. He also has found that opiates, like morphine, can ameliorate its effects. He’s spread iodine all over his body and uses morphine darts to put the most dangerous infected person, a large muscle-bound man he’s named Samson, into a drug-induced state of calm. He befriends Samson and keeps him subdued with morphine. However, the morphine will soon run out.

Meanwhile, Spike, the young teenager from the previous movie, which is the fourth one in the franchise, has found safety in a group of young people led by a man named Jimmy Crystal. However, Jimmy Crystal calls himself a Satanist and wears an upside down crucifix. He claims to talk to Satan and uses his seven followers to spread evil and murder across the land. Spike’s life has become a nightmare he can’t escape.

Since he’s running out of morphine, Dr. Kelson plans to kill Samson. He’s about to do the dirty dead when Samson, looking at the moon in the sky, suddenly speaks and says, “Moon.” Has Dr. Kelson found a cure for the virus?

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE has some gripping and even touching, positive and hopeful moments. These moments include Christian, morally uplifting and redemptive content. Happily also, the evil Satanist gets his comeuppance. However, all these moments are marred by extreme violence and nudity, lots of strong foul language, and a strong humanist attitude in parts of the movie. THE BONE TEMPLE is excessive and unacceptable.

Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later – but turning that world on its head – Nia DaCosta directs 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship – with consequences that could change the world as they know it – and Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival – the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.