The Bone Snatcher (2003)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Jason Wulfsohn

Writers:

Malcolm Kohll (writer)
Gordon Render (writer)

Release Date:

18 February 2004 (Bahrain)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

It will scare you out of your skull.

Plot:

After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.

Cast

Scott Bairstow	...	Dr. Zack Straker
Rachel Shelley	...	Mikki
Warrick Grier	...	Karl
Patrick Shai	...	Titus
Andre Weideman	...	Kurt
Adrienne Pierce	...	Magda (as Adrienne Pearce)
Patrick Lyster	...	Johan
Brian Claxton Payne	...	The Creature (as Brian Claxton-Payne)
Sean Higgs	...	Clive
Jan Ellis	...	Harvey
Langley Kirkwood	...	Paul
Lulama J. Nombiba	...	Old Man
Yusuf Hendrics	...	Taxi Driver
Andre Jacobs	...	Dr. Muller
Nikki Jackman	...	Mel

Also Known As:

Sandmother (South Africa: English title) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

90 min | Argentina:96 min

Country:

UK | Canada | South Africa

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 | Australia:MA | Argentina:16 | Italy:T | New Zealand:R13 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R | Canada:A (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Cape Town, South Africa

Company:

The Imaginarium

Another almost good horror movie with to many faults...

This horror movie starts out promisingly enough and there is a moment where I thought to myself "this is going to be really good". However, it gets rather boring rather quick at the end. The acting is fairly good, as is the location and the story starts out rather well too. The problem, not enough kills on screen and an ending where you have the monster basically turning tail and running. I wanted to see more, especially after a very good sleeping bag scene where I thought the movie was picking up and going to be a winner. Unfortunately after that the movie showed the monster very little and the back of the DVD lied as it told me that the desert beneath the people literally came alive and was capable of devouring their flesh...now that would have been some movie, a nearly inescapable situation. Granted that would have made viewers uncomfortable and it might of ramped up the tension, but that is what horror movies are supposed to do! Instead we have very few shots of the creature or creatures as it were and when we do see it, it is mainly on the defensive. Still it wasn't all bad, it just needed more horror less hunting and more chomping.