Let's not mince words here; Bone Sickness is a turd and there's no way around it. The acting is atrocious, the plot (really a convoluted mess of subplots) is really bad, and it seriously taxes one's ability to suspend disbelief. Half the time you're trying to figure out what's going on, the other half wondering why you even bother. That's all there is to it, straight up front, and aside from some marginally good gore gags, there is little to redeem it.That being said, this movie is one of those little gems in the genre that is so horrendously bad it's good. It may very well be a turd, but it's a turd with a quirky, unintentional charm. This is the type of movie you watch with a couple of your friends and a 6 pack or two and prepare to have a laughing good time. There are more "WTF" moments; creatively, visually, and plot wise; than you can even bother to count. From making theories as to just what the hell is happening, to trying to figure out the point of a particular character, to guessing what the writer/director was smoking when making this monstrosity of a bad movie; it's loads of roaring, unintentional fun.As I stated before, the gore is halfway decent as a bonus; with a few particular moment almost falling just shy of somewhat creative. This is not a good movie, not by a long-shot, but if you're looking for some sleazy garbage cinema to watch with your buddies and generally have a nice, good laugh, this is for you.
... View MoreBONE SICKNESS (2004) This one is the fan made cheap zombie movie to end all fan made cheap zombie movies. It starts out with a grave robbery (a little too dark) and a graphic Axe to the face. So far, so good. After the creepy credits, we meet Alex (Producer Rich George) and his wife Kristen (Darya Zabinski). Alex is very sick, and his wife is feeding him something to help his bones. This is her attempt at "alternative medicine". We know the crunchy things are not granola. Kristen snaps at Alex for puking. She goes to meet her grave robber,Tommy (Writer, director "Triple Threat" Brian Paulin), one of Alex's best pals. She uses a knife on the bones of the dead to extract the marrow, feeding it to Alex to cure his bone sickness. Meanwhile, two cops are on "spook patrol" at the graveyard when something breaks out the windows of their patrol car and murders them both. Lots of screaming and gouts of phony blood later, we see the investigation. Two cops and a night watchman have been murdered at the graveyard and someone's responsible! A detective stops Tommy in the graveyard as he is going about his gruesome work, but Tommy successfully lies to the cop and gets more bones for Alex to suck on. Lots of worms and bugs add to the overall creep factor in this scene. Tommy s wife Andrea uses the meat from the fridge to make hamburgers. I imagine that this is a big mistake. Mrs. Clancy, Andreas' nosy neighbor, fills her in on her hubby's activities, the nosy thing. There's a nice scene of Kristen giving Alex a bath, for being sick he sure is good looking! Refreshing to see some male nudity in these things for a change. With the size of the breasts on the women in this movie, I can see that there will be plenty of those things on display later! Did I say later? The nudity and gore are plentiful only twenty minutes in! Kristen has a dream where she's making love to the dead! So disgusting! Yay!! Now a completely gratuitous scene showing Alex on the toilet... pounding out...worms!!! Lots of them!! After puking tons of wormy puke, Poor Alex is freaking out. Oh its okay now, he's eating the worms he puked. More nudity, .....this is shaping up nicely.Forty Minutes in, we get our first Zombie. This one is a grave crawler, and he's pretty funky too. Well, howdy! Now the graveyard is filled with grave crawlers, ala "Return of the Living Dead" and they be a- shuffling". More gratuitous t and a, and we followers of Zombie movies know that a long sustained Zombie siege is imminent. Bring it on ! This is the first zombie attack in a pool that I have ever seen. Yup, all that nonsense about eating the dead really starts to pay off here for the second half. I can see that this is gonna be one Eyetie level zombie after another. The cops are SO stupid! The grue gets thick and deep here, with gunshots to the head, an Axe, and a circular saw variously employed to horrific effect. All sorts of obscurely motivated foolishness later, the zombies lay siege to Tommy and Andrea. These are definitely Fulci- type Zombies, not your Romero shufflers. (Which is okay with me, I love them all.) Alex, however, is now a living Zombie, a first for me. God, I love this movie ! There's all kinds of gooey horrific things going on here. The cops are SO stupid! But they ARE heavily armed. Are they making love or being eaten? It's hard to tell, but I like it. Guts spilling out, fevered dreams, gore galore. How nasty can it get? Woo Hoo! Arterial spray really makes my day. Buckets of blood. How long can the blood spray out after one has been decapitated? Not this long, I'm sure. This puts "Land of the Dead" to shame. Oh, this must be Alex....Sweet Revenge...Now Tommy's a living Zombie...This is more an homage to the Italian Zombie movies, bad acting and all...but, hey, at least they ACT.The ending is as wild a ride as I've ever seen. It switches abruptly into a Romero movie, complete with obviously risky amateur stunts and some of the most effective make up work I've ever seen in an amateur production.I urge all of you living suckers to check this one out.
... View MoreA lot of bashing on this movie. I get it. It is a snooze fest for the first half of the flick. The acting is pretty generic, to be polite..but polite I must be since the ending is so gory, so brutal, so shocking in it's arrival that it is a thing of unexpected beauty for gore-hounds. I tried watching director Brian Paulin's "Fetus"..couldn't get into it..never finished it. This though? Wow man, how any zombie or gore fan could dump on a movie like this when we're given such a remarkably unexpected ending is beyond me. The zombie arrival is an absolute blast of violence and brutality I haven't seen in some time, perhaps ever. These zombies rampage through humanity with the force of evil itself riding shotgun. The screen is soaked in blood and organs. I even liked the reason for the zombies...credit for originality as the origin of these maniacal human hating undead swarms is brave and sinister. However...be warned, you do have to tolerate the dreadful, slow slow burn of a beginning. It drags. The dumping on the girlfriend is pathetic as well. Darya Zabinski is a full figured busty actress and her body is far from obese. Very curvy and attractive...it was refreshing to see a woman I found sexy with her clothes off in a movie for once. Zombie and gore fans worldwide respect and appreciate this movie...give it a shot.
... View MoreI'm so sorry to say that I found this film just terrible. The make-up and costumes appear to have been purchased in late October from a discount store and the acting was not convincing in the slightest. The storyline made no sense to me and I was so bored that I had trouble sticking with it to the end. The film also contains a lot of very-naked-nudity! This aspect didn't really bother me so much but it seemed so out of place, just thrown in as an easy way to grab your attention but with no connection to the story. However, I have given this film 1 star because the team who made this film must love zombies as I do and I want to give them points for trying. In the very least, I hope they had a bit of fun putting this together.
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