''Bone Sickness'' is a low-budget 2004

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directed by Brian Paulin. The plot is about a degenerative

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. The film runs for 98 minutes.

Plot

Alex McNetti (Rich George) has a rare disease which gives him very

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. His friend Thomas Granger (Brian Paulin) believes that he has found the cure by feeding his friend dead flesh to counteract the terrible disease. However the process does have its side effects including making Alex cough up and vomit worms, and also turning him into a

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. The dead start to rise from their graves and butcher every living human they see to pieces, including a heavily armed

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, as well as two street hardened security guards who have been working the beat for so long they forget to take their hats off. The zombies later invade a populated city, killing every living person in sight.

Cast

* Darya Zabinski * Ruby Larocca * Rich George * Brian Paulin * Kevin Barbare * Ernest Hutcherson * Lorna Hutcherson * John E. McCarthy III * Joseph E. Olson * Griffen Brohman

Reception

In a negative review,

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called the film "disgusting even by zombie movie standards". D. W. Bostaph of

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rated the film 4.5/5 stars and called it "a wonderful mixture of homage, talent, and love." Writing for

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, Scott Weinberg rated the film 2/5 stars and described it as "a special kind of amateur-hour awful."

References

External links

* 2004 films 2004 horror films American zombie films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films {{2000s-horror-film-stub