Up-and-coming scientist, Dr. Zach, travels from Canada to Southern Africa where he, along with a group of miners, is tasked to find a trio of missing miners. Two of which they immediately find completely stripped to their bones. The third of which is inexplicably miles away from the other two. Now stranded deep in the desert, the unlucky crew must contend with an aboriginal monster that's stalking their every move.Offers up some tension and the acting is pretty adequate. I enjoyed the concept behind the monster, but the movie is hamstrung by a less than satisfying climax as well as a worse epilogue. My Grade: C-

"The Bone Snatcher" starts out extremely promising, with the introduction of a new and original type of unseen evil as well as with the use of the sublimely isolated filming location of the African desert. Whilst checking pipelines out in the desert, three miners are attacked and killed by a seemingly unworldly creature that devours their flesh and only leaves a pile of half-eaten bones. The expedition crew sent to rescue them discovers that the monster is a superiorly mutated ant-queen, and pretty soon they find themselves trapped in the uncanny desert as well. Director Jason Wulfsohn sustains a respectable level of tension just until the nature of the monster is identified. Immediately after that, the film rapidly turns into an ordinary creature-feature with all the characters dropping out of the survival-race one by one. The second half of "The Bone Snatcher" is unendurably boring; with the inevitable love-story clichés as well as a complete absence of gory murder set pieces. The characters all are insufferable stereotypes that act and say exactly what you predict several minutes in advance. There's the rookie who has to prove himself, the female with brain-capacity apart from her hot looks, the obnoxious experienced guy who redeems himself at the end through self-sacrifice and – last but not least – who could forget the wise black guy who refers to the monster using all kind of voodoo names. Wulfsohn tries too hard to make his monster look like the outer space menaces of "Alien" and "Predator". The ant-creature has infrared-vision and crumbles when shot at, yawn! The movie actually just benefits from its unique setting and the handful of nasty images of decomposed bodies. This could have been a modest gem, but instead it's less than mediocre. Avoid.

I wasn't sure what to expect when this disc arrived as part of my monthly subscription to the William Shatner DVD club. Figured it would be some sort of gore-fest set in the desert (I guess that would be a quick-drying gore-fest) but it actually turned out be pretty suspenseful and not always predictable. As the plot unfolded, though, I couldn't help but be reminded of Michael Chrichton's 2002(?) novel "Prey", in which intelligent nanoparticles swarm and coalesce into various shapes and kill off the characters--scientists in a desert research facility that manufactured the particles--one by one, sometimes briefly assuming the shape of one of their victims. Similarly, Bone Shatcher has intelligent swarms of ants under the control of an intelligent queen swarm and coalesce into various shapes to kill workers from a nearby diamond mine. Visually, this film is a lot like I imagined "Prey" would look as I was reading the book.

OK obviously people who have rated this movie earlier have no idea what this movie is about. And Lil man from Melbourne, its NOT a movie about people snatching bones..!! its about the heart and soul of a snatcher.. if you don't get the movie, you shouldn't comment on it..i FUD send this movie up for a Grammy... what do you believe is the theme of this movie? what do you believe is the theme of this movie?? OK obviously people who have rated this movie earlier have no idea what this movie is about. And Lil man from Melbourne, its NOT a movie about people snatching bones..!! its about the heart and soul of a snatcher.. if you don't get the movie, you shouldn't comment on it..i FUD send this movie up for a Grammy... what do you believe is the theme of this movie? what do you believe is the theme of this movie??