28 Years Later, The Bone Temple revives the zombie horror film

One of my favorite Woody Allen lines is from Annie Hall: “A relationship is like a shark — it has to keep moving forward, or it dies.” What does this have to do with Alex Garland’s latest entry in the 28 Days/Weeks/Years franchise, The Bone Temple? I think the analogy applies just as forcefully to art. Films (and music) that stop evolving grow stale and die. It’s precisely under that conviction that Garland, who clearly still has stories left to tell in his perilous post-apocalyptic world, has crafted a sequel so radically unconventional and so deliberately removed from the genre’s (and his original 28 Days Later‘s) familiar rhythms that it continues to feel fresh and unpredictable — a rare feat for a fourth installment.

Picking up exactly where 28 Years Later left