"There were laughs of surprise around me in screen three of the Everyman in Muswell Hill, north London, as 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple drew to its conclusion. Without giving too much away for those who haven't seen it, Ralph Fiennes dancing semi-naked among piles of human bones to Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast is not how you expect one of our greatest thespians to deport himself on screen."
"From the track's spoken intro by actor Barry Clayton Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number. Its number is six hundred and sixty six to Bruce Dickinson concluding with I have the fire, I have the force / I have the power to make my evil take its course, it is a shade under five minutes of nothing but the dark lord."
A surprising finale features Ralph Fiennes dancing semi-naked among piles of human bones to Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast." Alex Garland wrote the song choice into the script. The track opens with Barry Clayton's spoken intro about the number of the beast and ends with Bruce Dickinson's lines about fire, force and the power to make evil take its course. The song was the title track of Iron Maiden's 1982 third album, their first with Dickinson, helping the band reach their first UK No 1 album and first US top 40 album. Released as a single, the track reached No 3 in the UK in 1990, the highest UK chart position for a song about Satan; in the US that honour belongs to the Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." Clive Burr's juddering drum patterns and the song's multiple sections provided many editing options. The film contrasts a Satanist gang called the Jimmys with a warm, humanist Fiennes character and aims for an erratic, crazy feel alongside a romantic element.
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