Paul Magne Haakonsen Well, this movie is a B-movie, no doubt about it. You know that right away when you noticed that both the producer and director is also on the acting list as starring in the movie themselves.Truth be told, then it is not the worst of low budget zombie movies that I have sat through. And for a movie of this particular caliber and budget, then the end result was actually fair.The story in "Bone Sickness" is about a guy who is suffering from a debilitating bone condition, and in an effort to help him recover and get cured, his wife and friend have come up with an alternative method in an attempt to save his life. But this method has dire consequences and brings along with it something that should be eternally asleep.I have to comment on the DVD cover though, because it is truly a great DVD cover, that is given no justice by the actual movie. And the cover is possibly as far as from the actual movie as you could get. The artwork on the cover is intriguing and interesting, which leads to an illusion that the movie is more than it actually is. So don't get suckered in by the DVD cover. And while on the topic of the DVD cover, then it says "special edition" as well. Wait? So there is more than one version of this movie. And just does this low budget movie offer on the "special edition" compared to the ordinary version? I am intrigued.There is a bit too much unnecessary and purposeless nudity throughout the movie, which just dragged the movie down a notch, to a level of immaturity and stupidity that the movie could have done without. It was just like watching a horror movie from the mid 1980's, just doesn't work well in even back in 2004.The acting in the movie, well, yeah, it was amateurish, but still, they did good enough jobs with their roles, and most importantly, seemed like they were in it for making a zombie movie. So thumbs up on that account.Effects-wise, then "Bone Sickness" is a low budget movie in every sense, and the effects are not overly great. But you have to admire the effort and creativity put into the movie. The zombies looked like something from the late 1970 to mid 1980's Italian zombie movies, so I suppose that is a matter of preference whether or not you like that. The scenes with the worms and insects was interesting and actually cool that they did them, but those scenes really didn't help the movie along all that much.The sound in the movie could have benefited from some better equipment or some post-production work. The sound was a little bit too gritty compared to the overall touch of the movie.Personally, then I didn't get the thing with having to show scorpions scuttling about. That had absolutely nothing to do with the story, nor did it help promote the storyline in any possible way."Bone Sickness" is worth a single watching, especially if you are a fan of low budget zombie movies. However, if you are in it for a massive million dollar Hollywood budget production, you had best find your kicks elsewhere.

theindibluebird I'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.

charliecbc Finally, some amateurish shot-on-video filmmakers got the right idea! If you can't make a good movie, then pile on the gore! If this film had a bigger budget it would have been amazing. The zombie gore is extreme. It looks pretty fake at times, but the murder and dismemberment they depict with it is imaginative and funny in a trashy way. While the film itself is extremely amateur, I must say it's the thought that counts. It's a very ambitious take on the no-budget zombie movie genre. While it's not as good the more well known shot on video films like The Dead Next Door, Street Trash, or Slime City, it's still a lot better than Ghoul School, Night of the Living Dead 3-D, or Days of Darkness. The filmmaker really had the right ideas here. Blood spurts everywhere, people vomit worms, numerous people are torn in half, entrails or are eaten, heads broken open, etc. The extreme stuff doesn't really start up until the one hour mark, but after that it's relentless. There's a lot of nudity too. Pretty much every female character gets naked at some point. Some of the acting sucks. But just sit tight and your patience is rewarded. If the film had a bigger budget that allowed really professional looking special effects, this would have been the best gore film of the decade. I really hope the filmmakers are able to make more films that get better funding. I think if they got the proper equipment, a half decent budget, and some help from the right people, we might have the next Dead Alive on our hands.

Paul Andrews Bone Sickness starts as Kristen (Darya Zabinski) gives her sick husband Alex (Rich George) a potion concocted by their friend Thomas (Brian Paulin) to try & keep him alive, with no insurance & nothing the doctor's can do Alex is on the verge of death from some disease which decays bones. Unfortunately Thomas has been using bones from bodies he has dug up from graveyards & as such they are infected with parasites (look I didn't write this crap, OK?) which turns Alex's insides into maggots & worms which he starts to puke up & sh*t out when he goes to the toilet. Then for no reason whatsoever all the bodies in the graveyard come back to life as flesh eating zombies & start to kill & eat everyone...Bone Sickness is pretty much a homemade film shot on a camcorder principally by Rich George & Brian Paulin, virtually every credit during the end goes to one or both of them from staring in it to editing it, filming it, building the sets, doing the special effects & just about everything else including the stunt driving! You know sometimes we take things for granted, little things like films which make sense & are well made so when a film as truly dire & amateurish as Bone Sickness comes along it makes you appreciate universally hated & panned films like Catwoman (2004) just that little bit more. First off lets talk about the story in Bone Sickness or rather the complete lack of it, things seemingly happen at random, virtually nothing is explained let alone makes any sense, the plot twists are terrible (when the guy gets an axe in his head at the start Alex was sick in bed so it couldn't have been him), there's no sense of time or location & as for the final ten minutes in the graveyard when those devil looking type creatures appear the film completely loses the viewer & becomes one of the biggest messes in film history. Bone Sickness is a disaster, it's a amateur homemade horror film that is really, really bad in every way although the fact that the final thirty or forty minutes is wall to wall gore prevents the dreaded 1 star out of 10, it's just a shame the gore effects are so poor.From a film-making point of view Bone Sickness is a mess & as bad as any film you will ever see, enthusiasm for the genre just isn't enough. I mean I could make a horror film on my camcorder using my friends & family, does that automatically mean it should get released on DVD & mean people actually want to watch it? No, I didn't think so. The lighting is horrible, the photography is strictly point & shoot with no close-ups or establishing shots which gives it a really horrible choppy feel, the editing is poor & he never knows when to cut away & the special effects are terrible with the worst looking fake blood I've ever seen, it's more like red water. To give some credit where it's due there are plenty of gore, from ripped off arms, intestine eating, autopsy scenes, stomachs being ripped open, branches stuck in peoples necks, throat biting, face melting, babies ripped from pregnant women, head smashing, decapitations, bodies cut in half, rotten zombies, lots of red water sorry I mean blood splashed about everywhere, people blown up with grenades, people shot, heads ripped in half both vertically & horizontally & all sorts of bodily mutilation but it all just looks so poor & a lot of the same effects are repeated more than once. There's a disgusting moment when Alex spews up a load of worms, real worms so the poor guy actually had to hold them in his mouth to shoot the scene. He also eats them back up again, two scenes which are hard to watch if your squeamish but when you think about it nothing more extreme than what the Jackass & Dirty Sanchez boys do. The film looks awful as well with poor photography shot on a camcorder & probably edited on a home PC movie making software package.The IMDb lists the budget for Bone Sickness as a mere $3,000 which if true is an incredibly small amount to make a 90 odd minute film on, no matter how bad it is. The makers certainly get my congratulations for sticking with it & making a film on that sort of money but it's still absolutely awful in every respect. There's a constant buzz on the soundtrack which is noticeably out of sync at times & the whole film is just so amateurish it becomes a real chore to sit through. The acting is awful & among the worst ever committed to film, seriously these people are obviously just friends & family of George & Paulin.Bone Sickness is one of the poorest, most badly made films I've ever seen & that's no exaggeration. The story is none existent & makes no sense & it's incredibly hard to sit through, one worm puking scene is the only gross thing here since all the other effects are so poor. The sort of film which literally leaves you speechless.