Ah, here we go again with another know-it-all denouncement. Alas, an uptown snob has accused me of ripping off 28 Years Later. He claims that a portion of my novel, The Persona: Silver Skin, steals from Dr. Kelson's majestic bone temple, since my story features antagonists who devour their victims and then pile their bones about a desolate village.
I wrote Silver Skin more than a year before 28 Years Later hit theaters. My story's bone "sculptures" don't hold the same significance as Kelson's. Mine are more incidental (mere remnants) than not.
Something along these lines happened decades ago, when Don Coscarelli was accused of ripping off George Lucas' Jawas for the Tall Man's dwarfs. Coscarelli explained that he had envisioned his "little, brown and low to the ground," Phantasm creatures well before Star Wars was even a thing, and of course, his dwarfs hold quite a different designation than the Jawas. Still, the silly comparison stuck for a substantial spell among the haughty hardheaded.
There's nothing that I can say to change my accuser's myopic mind, so why even try? I've only chosen to document the matter for historic record and in that sad event that other pantomaths may feel so compelled to promote the ludicrous notion.
At any rate, feel free to judge for yourself. The Persona: Silver Skin and 28 Years Later can be purchased at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1969285044?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
and
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=28+years+later+dvd&ref=nb_sb_noss
