The long-awaited return of one of horror’s most visceral franchises has arrived. The official trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has been released, and it promises a brutal, blood-soaked vision of humanity’s collapse. Helmed by Nia DaCosta (Candyman), with Alex Garland back on script and Danny Boyle producing, the film marks the chilling continuation of a saga that began with 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007).
The footage opens with quiet, decayed landscapes, cities swallowed by nature and silence, before plunging headfirst into pure chaos. The Rage virus survivors are no longer the only monsters. A ruthless human faction known as “The Jimmies”, led by Jack O’Connell’s terrifying Sir Jimmy Crystal, wages war in what they call “The Bone Temple.” Here, brutality and worship blend into a twisted cult where violence is religion.
Returning to the fold, Ralph Fiennes reprises his role as the haunted Dr. Kelson, burdened with secrets of the virus, while Alfie Williams once again embodies Spike, caught between survival and the unrelenting savagery of this new world order.
Unlike its predecessors, The Bone Temple leans heavily into psychological horror as much as survival thrills. The infected are horrifying, but the trailer makes it clear: it’s human cruelty that dominates this chapter. Alex Garland himself hinted that the film would explore what happens when humanity adapts to endless catastrophe, whether survival means becoming something even worse than the infected.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will release globally in theaters on January 16, 2026. This marks the second installment of a planned new trilogy, with Garland and Boyle confirming that a third chapter is already in early development. Fans can expect this to be not just a sequel, but the beginning of a far darker and more expansive vision of the Rage virus universe.
The trailer is a brutal reminder of why the 28 films defined a generation of horror, fast, relentless, and unforgiving. This time, though, the horror isn’t just in the virus, it’s in what humanity has become after nearly three decades of rage.
