You Can Now Watch One Of The Year’s Best Horror Movies On Netflix

28 Years Later

28 Years Later

This year has been stunning for horror movies, and one of the better ones has just hit Netflix.

That would be 28 Years Later, the long-gestating sequel to 28 Days and Weeks later, which also, surprisingly, has another part coming in January 2026, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

But before that, you can watch the first one which reunites director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, who wrote the first film which was released 22 years ago. It is one of the highest rated horror movies of the year, and here’s how it stacks up against its rivals:

• Sinners – 97%
• Weapons – 94%
• Companion – 93%
• Final Destination: Bloodlines – 92%
• Together – 90%
• 28 Years Later – 89%
• Bring Her Back – 89%
• The Long Walk – 89%
• Presence – 88%
• Nosferatu – 84%
• Drop – 83%
• The Monkey – 77%
• Heart Eyes – 77%
• The Gorge – 62%
• Borderline – 59%
• M3GAN 2.0 – 58%
• Until Dawn – 52%

I mean okay, tied for sixth place is not the highest, but anything in the 89-97% range there is great for a horror movie, and I would absolutely say it’s one of the best of 2025. Though I would recommend literally all of those other top ones as well.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will be an interesting experiment. It carries over some of the same cast (minus casualties) and this time, while it’s still written by Alex Garland, it’s directed by Nia DaCosta, most recently the director of the overhated, underwatched The Marvels in the MCU. It deserved better! DaCosta has past horror experience directing 2021’s Candyman, but surely this quasi-sequel will be different without Danny Boyle at the helm. But who knows, maybe it could be even better. The whole set-up is a bit strange, to have a sequel 23 years in the making and then have a spin-off film released half a year later with a different director, but that’s how they wanted to do it, I guess.

The film did well worldwide, grabbing $151 million on a $60 million budget. It seems unlikely that The Bone Temple will make that much, but perhaps costs were lower for that one. All of this is a far cry from the original 28 Days Later, which cost $8 million and became a zombie classic.

I’m not sure how long 28 Years Later will say on Netflix due to its licensing deal, but likely quite a while. Still, who knows, so you might as well check it out now. In addition to about 7-8 others on that list above.

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