28 Years Later Changes Skin: The Bone Temple in 4K

With 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the saga created by Alex Garland takes an unexpected and decidedly less accommodating direction. Those expecting a classic survival horror full of chases and rabid infected might be caught off guard: the film instead chooses a darker, more introspective, and unsettling path.

Nia DaCosta is at the helm, inheriting Danny Boyle's visual legacy without copying his style. The result is an almost hallucinatory journey, where the threat of the infected often fades into the background compared to human madness and cruelty.

Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell Steal the Show

The heart of the film is the relationship between the mysterious Dr. Kelson, played by Ralph Fiennes, and Jack O'Connell's character, an unpredictable and unsettling presence that dominates every scene he appears in.

The action is less central than in previous chapters, but the violence hits harder. Some sequences are deliberately uncomfortable and confront the viewer with a humanity now devoid of any moral balance. It's a divisive horror, even extreme in certain narrative choices, but precisely for this reason, it could be hailed as one of the most unique and courageous chapters of the entire saga.

Shot natively in digital at 4.6K resolution and with a 4K master, the latter used for the production of the Eagle Pictures UHD edition. Original image format 2.39:1 (3840 x 2160/23.97p), HEVC encoding on a BD-100 triple layer disc. With the robust support of HDR/Dolby Vision, the spectacle is not lacking, although the included BD-50 disc with the 2K version already offers an excellent viewing experience.

In this sense, the difference between the two resolutions is not always so clear-cut, more substantial if viewed with high-level hardware like in our case, with an Oppo UDP-203 player + Panasonic Z85 OLED 55” screen. In UHD, there are further gains in color extension/fidelity and dynamic light management, black depth, and overall enhanced prominence and refinement of background elements, even in the numerous passages with low scene lighting.

Interesting soundscape thanks to an excellent Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1, encompassing dialogue, effects, music, and some mid-low range support. The original track gains further, even if still 16-bit, for direct dialogue with greater bite.

Above all is the Dolby TrueHD 7.1.4 (24-bit) track with ATMOS objects, which delivers an aggressive soundstage, even more open and immersive, with some substantial transitions from the vertical channels. Only with a true home theater system is it possible to fully experience the latest chapter of the zombie franchise.

28 Years Later - The Bone Temple: 4K Amaray Edition

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As extras, there is Nia DaCosta's film commentary, which recounts behind-the-scenes details of the film's production, from locations to special effects, cast, music, and main themes. Also: on-set bloopers and funny moments (2') and a short deleted scene with the conversation between the Fingers after the first meeting between Dr. Kelson and Jimmy Crystal. Also available in steelbook version.