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Bone Sickness (2004)
Bone Sickness has NEKKID WOMEN & ZOMBIES!!!
This is a great example of a fun low-budget zombie movie. It's not a great movie. There are some lapses in logic in the plot. The blood and guts are not anatomically correct. But who cares? Brian Paulin is the writer, director and anti-hero. Rich George is the hero. The outtakes show that they all had a great time making this. It shows in the final product, too.
This is no comedy. It's gory and serious. Basic plot: Alex is dying of a bone disease. Thomas tried to help Alex's wife Kristen find a cure. Thomas digs up some corpse bones, which pisses off the dead. The dead don't rise until the last segment of the movie.
But don't worry. There's plenty of gore and guts in the meantime. Poor Alex is oozing worms from every orifice. (We see way more of this than you'd expect, too.) And the two women get nekkid, too. Blonde Darya Zabinski is Kristen. Redhead Ruby Larocca is Thomas's wife. Both are excellent.
Zombies and nekkid women? This is my kind of movie! I do wish Paulin had invited his high school biology teacher to give tips on anatomy. Some of the bloodier scenes look too much like a Monty Python skit, with blood spraying constantly rather than squirting with each heart beat.
And there were some confusing lapses in logic, too. I'm still not sure whether Thomas and Krisen were having an affair, a fact thatat one pointseemed important to the plot.
Nonetheless, this one is a pretty cool low-budget zombie flick. Buy it!
Love Gets You Twisted (2002)
Fantastic Short
This little film popped up this morning on IFC while I was working on something on the laptop. The work fell to the side as I watched. I won't reveal anything about the plot other than to say that when the film ended, I was intrigued by the what-next possibilities more than any Hollywood flick in years has done to me. Wait. I will say this about the plot: it involves kids who grow up to be married couples. But there's none of the cheesy drama or pathetic humor you see in most big-budget stuff. I don't know how they shot this to give it the look that it has, but I'm no expert on that anyhow. Suffice it to say they did a great job of making the earlier parts look older, the later parts later, but still from an earlier period. You'll understand when you see it. The narrator's voice reminds me of a female Jean Shepherd. There's a sense of humor there that isn't a one-joke job. It isn't humor so much as it is FUN. I appreciate that... In a world where TV depends on poop jokes and movies depend on poor-taste pratfalls to get a laugh, this is clever and original. As a fellow who would like to someday make his own little film for IFC, this is inspiring. I am hoping the producers make a full-length version. This would be a fun film!