January 25, 2026
Directed by Nia DaCosta
Written by Alex Garland
Following the events of the last film, young Spike (Alfie Williams) was rescued by a gang led by "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell), who called himself the son of Satan himself. He called his minions his "Fingers," replacing their names with various forms of his name Jimmy, going around terrorizing people by tying them up and skinning them alive. A female Finger called Jimmy Ink (Erin Kellyman) has become protective of Spike.
Meanwhile, back at his Bone Temple, Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) has started to interact with the Infected Alpha whom he called Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) who seemed to be gaining back his sanity as an effect of the multiple doses Kelson had shot into him from darts of his blowgun. When Jimmy Crystal heard that there was this mysterious man with red skin that seemed to have been able to tame an Alpha, he thought Kelson could be his lord Satan.
In this fourth installment in the 28th Day Later film series, there are already more human characters in this film than Infected (zombies). In fact, the diabolically psychotic Lord Jimmy Crystal and his Fingers were more chilling than the Infected. Their scenes of skinning their regular human victims alive were far more disgusting than any of the Infected kills. The interesting musical soundtrack ranged from Iron Maiden to Duran Duran. Fiennes and O'Connell give totally committed performances of opposite extremes. 8/10
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Directed by Johannes Roberts
Written by Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera
After spending several years away in the US mainland, Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah) returned to Hawaii to visit her family home with her friend Kate (Victoria Wyant). Kate had invited another girl Hannah (Jessica Alexander), who rubbed Lucy off the wrong way. When Kate found out that Lucy's father will be not be home, she volunteered herself, Hannah and their male friend Nick (Benjamin Cheng), to stay over at Lucy's place.
Lucy's deaf father Adam Pinborough (Troy Kotsur) is a successful author who was going away over the weekend for a book signing of his latest book. Lucy also had a kid sister Erin (Gia Hunter) with whom she had a strained relationship because of the years apart. The family had a genius pet chimpanzee named Ben (motion capture by actor Miguel Torres Umba). However, Ben was not going to be docile himself that particular weekend.
From the start, it was evident that rabies would cause Ben's uncharacteristically deadly behavior. Like typical horror formula, the victims were taken out one by one, until they figure out how to neutralize the killer. From the opening, we already know that the kills will be graphically violent, from a face getting ripped off to a jawbone being pulled out from its sockets. The atmosphere was just like any other serial killer film where the victims are trapped in one house. Only difference here, the killer was a rabid chimp, not a man. 7/10
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