The Bone Temple was filmed back to back with the previous part and this film follows Dr Ian (Fiennes) as he encounters Jimmy from the end of the previous film. The film starts with Jimmy making Spike fight someone to the death and this shows that this little cult that he is now a part of isn’t the best thing to be a part of but he has no choice. Nina DaCosta did the Candyman reboot which I enjoyed a lot and then she did The Marvels which was truly terrible so it's nice that she has come back to horror and showed that The Marvels was a blip. She shows that she manages to make a horror film that doesn't rely on jump scares and despite a few iffy editing moments the film makes this a horror film that manages to be about something.
The scene where the people from the house are being flayed by the Jimmy’s was a truly nauseating moment and made me look away. The film has an 18 certificate from the BBFC and it did deserve that because apart from the flaying, we get a head being pulled from the body which we see up close. This is definitely one of the goriest films in the 28 series.
The idea of making Jimmy a parody (of sorts of Jimmy Saville) was a bold choice. The Jimmy in this film is a monster and Jimmy Saville is a monster but when the virus raged through the world comes a time when the terrible things he did hadn’t come to light
The moment when I knew that I really enjoyed this film was when Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Ian dancing to Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast. It was such a fantastic moment because it seemed to come out of nowhere. Fiennes seems to be channelling his younger self and doing the sort of things that people wouldn’t expect him to do. I do think it was a shame to kill off his character but he was great in the previous film and was outstanding in this.
I was worried when Ian started dancing with Samson because I thought that the film was going to undo all the good work of the previous film but it shows why this film works as well as it does because the friendship between them works because of the performances from Fiennes and Chi Lewis-Perry. Lewis Perry doesn't really have much to say but still manages to bring humanity to a role that just grunts and runs around.
Ralph Fiennes is great as Dr. Ian and he carries the film which is impressive given that for most of the film he only interacts with two people. Jack O’Connell shows that he could play a character more horrible than what he played in Sinners. Alfie Williams is quite central to the plot because it's more about Jimmy and Ian but he is still pretty good and Erin Kellyman is very good as Jimmy Ink and comes across as the more likeable of the Jimmy’s which isn’t really that hard to achieve.
It has been confirmed that we will get the final part of the trilogy after the first two have done so well which I am over the moon about. Not just because we get another installment in this world but the return of Cillian Murphy’s Jim and a young girl who appears to be his daughter return and they spot Spike and Keli. Also I am not convinced that Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal is dead. He is still breathing when we last see him so there is always the chance that he will return in some form.
I didn’t think that this was going to be as good as the first part but I am happy to say that I was wrong. Weirdly it doesn't seem as downbeat as the previous installment yet there were tough moments throughout but the next part has a lot to live up to and I hope that it can match what has come out of this one.
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