This is my second run-in with a Brian Paulin film - I have yet to be impressed. The first film I watched was DEAD GIRL ON FILM, a snuff-themed snooze-fest with one or two decent scenes. BONE SICKNESS is slightly better, as the gore is amped-up and there's some decent nudity - but visually, it still looks like a cam-corder crap-fest, not to mention the fact that director Brian Paulin should NEVER be let in front of the camera...
Some guy is dying from a degenerative bone disease, Paulin is his pal that works at a morgue and keeps him supplied with corpse-marrow and other strange concoctions to keep him alive, but it doesn't work right and zombies start appearing everywhere. The rest is a blur of Andreas Schnaas-style gory retardation that doesn't really deserve much mention...
I had been waiting for this film for quite a while, and honestly - I wish I'd never heard of it. The only thing of ANY note on display are the few decent gore scenes that don't look totally fake. Acting? Atrocious. Paulin looks like a poor man's Philip Seymour Hoffman, but with none of the talent and a horrible hair-do. He's not the only one - NO ONE in this film has a lick of acting talent. Some of the gore FX are OK...but the film is so utterly amateurish as a whole, that only fans of uber-micro-budget cinema will enjoy this mess. Sorry kids, I'm a gore fan as much as (or more) than the next guy - but there has to be a bit more than that in a film to make it worthwhile. I got really nothing else to say about this, except it pretty much blows. I've seen worse - but BONE SICKNESS is a tired film in a tired genre - and honestly - it took me four viewings just to make it through this - so I'm just tired...I just pray that FETUS is better than this crap...3/10
Some guy is dying from a degenerative bone disease, Paulin is his pal that works at a morgue and keeps him supplied with corpse-marrow and other strange concoctions to keep him alive, but it doesn't work right and zombies start appearing everywhere. The rest is a blur of Andreas Schnaas-style gory retardation that doesn't really deserve much mention...
I had been waiting for this film for quite a while, and honestly - I wish I'd never heard of it. The only thing of ANY note on display are the few decent gore scenes that don't look totally fake. Acting? Atrocious. Paulin looks like a poor man's Philip Seymour Hoffman, but with none of the talent and a horrible hair-do. He's not the only one - NO ONE in this film has a lick of acting talent. Some of the gore FX are OK...but the film is so utterly amateurish as a whole, that only fans of uber-micro-budget cinema will enjoy this mess. Sorry kids, I'm a gore fan as much as (or more) than the next guy - but there has to be a bit more than that in a film to make it worthwhile. I got really nothing else to say about this, except it pretty much blows. I've seen worse - but BONE SICKNESS is a tired film in a tired genre - and honestly - it took me four viewings just to make it through this - so I'm just tired...I just pray that FETUS is better than this crap...3/10