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28 Years Later Viewers Are Still In Shock From That Teletubbies Callback In The Wild Final Scene
This article contains major spoilers for 28 Years Later. 28 Years Later viewers are still reeling from that shocking ending. Much has already been made of the fact that, in the film's final moments, teen protagonist Spike stumbles upon a renegade cult gang who appear to have modelled their appearance on the disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile, complete with colourful shellsuits and platinum blond wigs. It's worth pointing out that 28 Years Later is set in an alternate world in which the deadly 'rage virus' begins to spread in 2002, completely disrupting society, meaning it's entirely likely that in the timeline seen on screen, the allegations about Savile were never actually made public. However, there's another wild part of the ending that has also stayed with fans. Before we get into that, though, let's quickly flash back to the very beginning of the film. The first scene of 28 Years Later features a group of youngsters who are huddled together to watch a vintage episode of Teletubbies, before all hell breaks loose, and a member of the 'infected' wreaks havoc on the youngsters (the Teletubbies scene was first teased in a 28 Years Later trailer released earlier this year). We learn at the end of the film that cult leader Sir Jimmy Crystal – played by Jack O'Connell – was one of the survivors of this attack, with some also questioning whether or not those colourful tracksuits were also a nod to the Teletubbies, as well as another group of 90s and 2000s kids' TV icons, the Power Rangers. But that's not the only callback to the Teletubbies, though, with the gang's unpredictable fight scene being accompanied by a rock cover of the show's iconic theme tune (which famously topped the UK singles chart back in 1997 with a bit of help from Simon Cowell). Just got back from 28 Years LaterWhat an unsettling and depressing story the is full circled with the god damn Teletubbies…..great film! — Rion (@Rion_A_Lion) June 21, 2025 28 Years Later… standard depressing post apocalyptic zombie horror until the ending which is abrupt and involves screamo teletubbies theme 🧍♀️ huh. — girl_dm_ 🔪 villainess (definitely evil) (@Girl_Dm_) June 25, 2025 . #28YearsLater was a bloody good time! The music, cinematography and Jack O'Connell's character killing to the metal version of the Teletubbies theme. — Alex (@AlexMitchiex13) June 20, 2025 I am being dead serious when I say that 28 Years Later ends with a fucking Ninja Turtles parody, with the Teletubbies theme playing quickly turning into a rock song. I am saying this completely unironically. — Louis (@Moviefandumb345) June 20, 2025 Anyone know where I can listen to that Teletubbies metal song from the end of 28 Years Later? I want to listen to it again. #teletubbies#28yearslater — Alex-Mae (Rattfink's #1 Fan And Wife) (@Dementcia1) June 21, 2025 28 years later goes from horror, to intense thriller, to Erik, to timeless masterpiece and ends with satanic teletubbies — Tango (@TangoThr3) June 19, 2025 seeing surprisingly little online about the Jimmy Saville/Teletubbies kung fu death cult at the end of 28 Years Laterreally thought that would turn more heads — John (@ju4nathan) June 22, 2025 Still Thinking About # — Cinema Tweets (@CinemaTweets1) June 20, 2025 28 Years Later director Danny Boyle has already teased that the gang Spike encounters at the end of the film will form a major part of the film's sequel, which is due for release early next year. He claimed: 'The role of Jack O'Connell's character and his family, which is a replacement, really, for the family he loses at the beginning of the film, is to reintroduce evil into what has become a compassionate environment. 'I asked Alex [Garland, who wrote both films] right at the beginning to just tell me what's the nature of each of the films, and he said that the nature of the first film is about family. The second film is about the nature of evil. And you're about to meet a lot more of them when it'll be more appropriate to talk about them in the second film.' The Trainspotting director previously said that he hopes 28 Years Later and its sequel, subtitled The Bone Temple, will form the first two instalments of a new trilogy, the third of which is not yet greenlit. 28 Years Later 'Alpha' Chi Lewis-Parry Answers Everyone's 1 Big Question About The Film 28 Years Later Director Danny Boyle Reveals Meaning Behind That Truly Wild Twist Ending 28 Years Later Was Actually Filmed Using iPhones – Danny Boyle Explains Why
USA Today
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
The end of 28 Years Later, explained
Crowds are hitting theaters this weekend to once again enter the terrifying world of the rage virus we first met in 2002 with 28 Days Later. Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have reunited to take over the third entry in the series -- they were involved in 28 Weeks Later as executive producers only -- and brought their distinct style back to the screen. WARNING: Spoilers for 28 Years Later ahead! In 28 Years Later, we meet the inhabitants of Holy Island, a small stronghold off the coast of mainland England that has created a little safe haven from the rage virus. A causeway separates the island from the quarantined area, passable by foot only when the tide is low. Jaime (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) takes his son, Spike (Alfie Williams) onto the mainland to fulfill some sort of rite-of-passage zombie hunting for the young 12-year-old. They, of course, run into some trouble -- to include the seemingly much-evolved "alpha" zombies that are stronger, smarter and faster -- but make it back home (after one of the most intense, heart-pounding scenes in the movie). During the post-hunt celebrations, Spike catches his dad cheating on his mom, sending the boy spiraling. The mother, played wonderfully by Jodie Comer, has been suffering migraines and bouts of memory loss episodes. Spike then hatches a plan to sneak his mother out to find the rumored Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) and see if he can't help heal her. Along their travels, there are many close calls and a couple new friends. They eventually meet Dr. Kelson, who has dedicated his post-apocalyptic life to trying to memorialize those that have lost their lives. It's a truly remarkable look into life and humanity and grief. Spike eventually lands on a decision to remain on the mainland to try and find himself, but the movie closed with a perplexing sequence that, honestly, ran counter to the vibes and tone of the rest of the story. In the very beginning of the movie, we see a group of children watching Teletubbies as the rage virus starts to spread. One of the boys, Jimmy Crystal, escapes to find his father in the church. Before his dad sacrifices himself to the zombies (he thinks they're sent from the divine), he gives Jimmy his cross and tells him to hide. We don't see Jimmy for the next hour and 45 minutes or so, but he's hinted at through ominous carvings of his name both in an infected and on a wall that Spike passes. It looks like the movie is wrapping up, but a group of infected starts to overwhelm Spike. Suddenly, Jimmy (Jack O'Connell) appears on a ledge with blond hair and a track suit offering to help. His army of track-suited fighters defeat the infected in a wildly tonally different scene from the rest of the movie. The costuming of Jimmy and his henchmen seems to reference the disgraced Jimmy Savile, a once-popular television host in the UK. After Savile's death in 2011, horrifying stories of his abusive and predatory behavior emerged, including the sexual abuse of minors. If you consider the world ended for young Jimmy Crystal in 2002, the vile offenses of his idol Jimmy Savile would have never been revealed. The use of this specific imagery -- the blond wigs and track suits like Savile used to wear -- was intentional by Boyle and Garland. We don't get a lot of information about Jimmy Crystal in this world, it's clear he's not a good guy and someone that should be feared. The idea that even in a world where Savile isn't known for his evil that someone still emerges as evil in his absence is so startlingly dark. A follow up film, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, is already in post-production. The movie is directed by Nia DaCosta and set to release January 16, 2026. It is supposed to bring back O'Connell, Williams and Fiennes as the story continues.
Times
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
28 Years Later — it's like a zombie movie made by Ken Loach
It can't be — can it — after all this time? Nostalgic pop-culture references to the old Tango adverts and the Teletubbies. Fancy freeze-frames and lickety-split editing. A banging mixtape of ambient house on the soundtrack so that even when the characters are battling for their life against zombies the audience feel like they are tying one on at the Haçienda on a Saturday night with their mates. It has to be … yes, it's a Danny Boyle film. Last seen directing Yesterday in 2019, Boyle returns to screens this week with 28 Years Later, an unusually thoughtful sequel to his 2002 classic 28 Days Later, which shows much has changed since the zombie apocalypse — sorry, Rage Virus — was first loosed on the world. England is now cut off from the rest of Europe and a small group of the uninfected are holed up on an island. It's a community that defends itself with homemade bows and arrows and has returned to the values of the 1950s including waving St George's flags. Boyle splices their defence of the fortified causeway that leads to the mainland with snatches of footage from the Battle of Agincourt in Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V. We seem to be in one of those remote Hebridean communities beloved of old folk-horror films where villagers worship pagan gods, copulate in the fields and cure sore throats with toads. If George A Romero's zombie movies in the Seventies set themselves up as allegories of mass-market consumerism, Boyle's seem to be about the Little Englander belligerence that fuelled Brexit. These zombies don't want to eat our brains, just our unbendy cucumbers. • Danny Boyle: Road rage, Brexit — and why I'm returning to 28 Days Later Tutoring his son, Spike (Alfie Williams), in the ways of the postapocalyptic patriarchy is Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), whose sick wife, Isla (Jodie Comer), languishes in the bedroom upstairs. He takes his son on his first trip to the mainland to hunt for zombies, a blood sport-cum-rite of passage for the island's young men. 'The more you kill the easier it gets,' Jamie tells him, but there's a new breed of 'alpha zombie': big, naked brutes who run like the clappers, willies bouncing, who seem to represent all the coarse male energies at large in this postapocalyptic world. The screenwriter Alex Garland has bigger issues in his sights than just zombies. After Spike cottons on to his father's lies and escapes to the mainland with his mother in the hope of finding a cure for what ails her, the film downshifts into an odyssey that owes as much to Garland's Civil War last year as to the original 2002 Boyle film. The mother and son's journey is punctuated by images of societal breakdown — an abandoned Happy Eater roadside café, a rusting train carriage, a compound of human bones ruled by a bald, blood-and-mud-encrusted doctor (Ralph Fiennes) who raves about the 'magic of the placenta' in the crackpot fashion of Colonel Kurtz. • The best films of 2025 so far Garland's copy of Heart of Darkness must be well thumbed. Joseph Conrad's novella provided much of the thematic superstructure of The Beach as well. Do the slim fillets of action justify the weightier themes that are hung on them? He and Boyle are trying to make a wider statement about societal collapse — it's like a zombie movie made by Ken Loach. But what will gamers make of the gentle, ruminative climax? My guess is a slight but unshakeable feeling of bamboozlement. Boyle adds a bloody coda of zombie slaughter, freeze-framing on every arterial spray and brain splatter, just to be on the safe side. ★★★☆☆15, 115min Disney Pixar hits most of its marks, but not all. Elio is about an orphaned 11-year-old, Elio Solis (Yonas Kibreab), now in the care of his aunt (Zoe Saldaña), who channels his loneliness and longing into the sky. Sending messages using a ham radio and a colander for aliens to come and beam him up, he is one day granted that wish by a benevolent collective of alien races known as the Communiverse, who are facing down a threat from a warlord called Lord Grigon (Brad Garrett), who looks like a crab crossed with a Swiss army knife with plasma cannon for limbs. Anyone recalling the showdowns between Donald Trump and the United Nations would not be far off. • Read more film reviews, guides about what to watch and interviews The film gives kids a framework to understand the world's strong men — beneath his military-grade exoskeleton, Lord Grigon turns out to be a soft, caterpillar-like sweetheart — but suffers from the Pixar blight of too many bright ideas, an excess of benevolence and a story that doesn't know which lane to pick. We're almost 50 minutes into the film before we meet Grigon's pudgy, pacifist son, Glordon, whose friendship with Elio should have been the emotional core of the film. But they have to wait their turn in a plot set on heartwarming reconciliations for everyone — Elio and his aunt, Glordon and his dad, Grigon and the Communiverse. These things were so much simpler in ET's day. In this film, everyone has a heart light. ★★★☆☆PG, 99min Times+ members can enjoy two-for-one cinema tickets at Everyman each Wednesday. Visit to find out moreWhich films have you enjoyed at the cinema recently? Let us know in the comments below and follow @timesculture to read the latest reviews
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19-06-2025
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28 Years Later movie review: Danny Boyle's horror zombie sequel is scary, tender & pulse-pounding
28 Years Later is directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland read more Star cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes Director: Danny Boyle Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland took us on a terrifying ride in 2002 with 28 Days Later, which is still considered one of the best horror movies of the 21st century. The third instalment of the trilogy, titled 28 Years Later, skips the events of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 2007 sequel, 28 Weeks Later, by taking a dig at British isolationism. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The plot starts with a bunch of small and young kids watching a Teletubbies episode and trying to avoid the noise of adults from another room, who are becoming prey to flash-eating zombies. One of the kids, named Jimmy, who tries to see what's happening through the door, manages to escape after her aunt, who is attacked by one of the zombies, tells him to run. He reaches one of the nearby churches, where Jimmy is revealed to be the son of a preacher man. He passes his crucifix to Jimmy and tells him to always keep it with him before calling the deathly mob to the 'Day of Judgment.' Now, 28 Years Later, we see a land mass off the northeast coast of England, which is separated from the mainland (residence of zombies) by a causeway, which can be accessed only during a low tide. A kid named Spike lives there with his parents, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Isla (Jodie Comer), with the latter suffering from an illness, which gives her pain and lucidity. The land is untouched by modern civilisation and development due to its association with zombies, and hence, there are no doctors who can check up on Isla. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD This land is home to a tight-knit community, where people are into designated professions like a farmer, hunter, fisherman, forager, baker and others. Despite being quite young, Spike gets confidence from Jamie to be confident and skilled in archery to get his first kill of the infected on the mainland. As the father-son duo reach there Rating: 3.5 (out of 5 stars) 28 Years Later is playing in cinemas
Tom's Guide
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
'28 Years Later' review: A brilliant new entry that infects the franchise with fresh terror and rage
It's been more than two decades since '28 Days Later' redefined the zombie genre, and I first fell for its bleak, fast-moving world of infected terror when I was probably just old enough to be watching. Danny Boyle's original was unnerving and surprisingly emotional, and its sequel, '28 Weeks Later,' while divisive, had its own unforgettable moments (with a few memes). Still, I've always wondered if we'd ever get another chapter… and whether it could live up to the legacy. Now, just over a year after its official announcement in early 2024, and following months of anticipation and cautious hope from fans, '28 Years Later' has finally arrived — and I got the chance to see it ahead of release. I don't say this lightly: this is the best movie in the franchise so far. It's intense, emotional, unflinchingly brutal, and beautifully shot. It honors the atmosphere and DNA of the original movies, but it's also so much more ambitious in scope, character, and storytelling. This is the first part of a new trilogy, and if what's to come is anything like this, we're in for something special. Whether you've been waiting 20 years or just discovered the series last week, '28 Years Later' makes one thing clear: this story still has so much left to say. Here's my honest thoughts on this new chapter. I recently watched the previous movies in the franchise back-to-back as a fresh reminder of its unique energy and distinct auteur horror style. It also meant I could go into '28 Years Later' with the kind of expectation most fans probably share. And I can confidently say that right from the start, this new entry carries that unmistakable energy the franchise is known for. If you went in completely unaware it was even part of the series, you'd recognize it immediately from the unique camera work and the dulled-down color saturation. '28 Years Later' first transports you back to the outbreak's beginning, showing a group of children watching Teletubbies (classic) as chaos erupts outside — before it breaks in. I don't need to explain what happens next. Given the horror label, expect plenty of shocking deaths and gore. This opening scene is important, though, because it introduces a character you'll meet much later. The entire sequence feels incredibly chaotic, with some running shots showcasing impressive use of an iPhone camera (yes, some of the movie was shot on iPhones). I wouldn't be surprised if the phone was strapped to a goat, since Boyle confirmed this was an experimental filming method in an interview with Business Insider. Then the movie jumps to, well, 28 years later. This time we focus on a new group of characters living on a secluded Scottish island, isolated from the mainland by a heavily defended causeway. The visuals are stunning, with sweeping drone shots of the island and small details like a frayed carpet on stairs inside a rundown home. That home belongs to Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), his sick wife Isla (Jodie Comer), and their son Spike (Alfie Williams). Pretty much instantly, we sense tension within the family, especially since Isla's sickness causes her to forget things and lash out, particularly when Jamie mentions taking Spike to the mainland for his first kills. I mean, any parent would be against that, but in this society it's become a tradition for kids turning 15 to learn how to kill. Spike is only 12, and he's an exception because Jamie thinks he's 'ready.' From there, it becomes clear that '28 Years Later' aims to focus more on character drama while weaving in classic horror-thriller elements. While fans may be divided over this choice, I found it incredibly effective at isolating a single, powerful story within such an unforgiving country ravaged by the Rage virus. As these characters venture out, you learn more about their dynamics and how they function in this post-apocalyptic era. Alfie Williams is brilliant as Spike, portraying an innocent youth who's just trying to do right by his family, especially his mom, with whom he later embarks on a journey to find a doctor. Jodie Comer brings raw emotion to the movie, convincingly showing a loving mother slipping into confusion and fragility. Ralph Fiennes as Doctor Kelson provides some much-needed comic relief when the situation calls for it. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, though not in the movie as much as I expected, gives Jamie plenty of depth and complexity to work with. Even though '28 Years Later' remains committed to telling a powerful human story, it doesn't overlook the elements that made the franchise so compelling. The infected are back, and they're more terrifying than ever. You'll encounter the familiar twitching, feral infected, driven by an insatiable urge to sprint and hunt down survivors. But the movie also introduces new variants that heighten the horror. Among them are bloated infected that crawl on the ground, scavenging for worms. Most chilling of all are the Alpha infected: larger, stronger, and exhibiting signs of intelligence beneath their Rage Virus-induced minds. These new infected are genuinely terrifying to watch, and the use of wobbly camera angles during specific chase sequences makes it all the more chilling. Plus, they like to rip out human spines Predator-style. The movie is full of tense and unsettling moments that make you feel trapped and scared, like you're stuck somewhere far from safety with danger hiding just out of sight. One of the creepiest scenes shows a lone figure standing far away in a field, just waiting for Jamie and Spike to make a move. But amid the fear, there's also surprising beauty: colorful countryside, nature reclaiming ruined buildings against breathtaking backdrops. '28 Years Later' brings together everything Boyle is known for while adding a more thoughtful view of chaos and decay. If I have one complaint, it's that the ending of '28 Years Later' didn't quite land for me because of its sudden shift in tone (not to mention how odd it is). While it's clearly meant to set up the next two movies, it didn't pack the emotional punch I was hoping for after such an intense story. Still, this adrenaline-fueled new chapter is so strong that I can easily forgive the ending. '28 Years Later' delivers a powerful, intense return to a franchise that felt dormant for far too long. It respects the roots that made the original so unforgettable, like fast-paced horror, raw emotion, and relentless tension, while expanding its world with fresh characters and new threats. Though the ending felt a little abrupt and offbeat, it clearly sets the stage for a promising new trilogy. For longtime fans and newcomers alike, '28 Years Later' offers a thrilling, emotional ride that leaves you eager for what's next. If you thought the franchise would never return, this sequel proves there's still plenty of life and rage left to burn.
