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BONE DADDY
Rating: 
USA. 1998.
Director – Mario Azzopardi, Screenplay – Tom Szollosi, Producers – Lewis B. Chesler & Jean Desmoreaux, Photography – Danny Nowak, Music – Christophe Beck, Special Effects Supervisor – Laird McMurray, Makeup Effects/Prosthetics – Matthew De Wilde & David Scott, Production Design – Jeff Ginn. Production Company – Chesler-Perlmutter Productions.
Cast:
Rutger Hauer (Dr William Palmer), Barbara Williams (Detective Sharon Hewlett), Joseph Kell (Peter Palmer), R.H. Thomson (Marshall Stone), Robin Gammell (Captain Cobb), Mimi Kuzyk (Kim), Blu Mankuma (Trent), Wayne Best (Phil Rodman), Daniel Kash (Rocky Carlson)
Plot: Former Chicago police medical examiner William Palmer publishes a book entitled ‘Bone Daddy’, a fictionalisation of the famous unsolved Bone Daddy case that he worked on fifteen years before. However, the book’s publication suddenly brings the real Bone Daddy back out of retirement. The killer abducts Palmer’s agent. He then tauntingly leaves a trail of bones removed from the agent body’s while he is still alive for Palmer to find.
Bone Daddy is a serial killer thriller, one of a vast number of copies of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) that came out during the 1990s. Among these, Bone Daddy is a routine and unremarkable variation.
Certainly, the film has an interesting sounding story in synopsis and in another director’s hands the same material might have worked well. However, former tv director Mario Azzorpardi lacks the dark obsessive psychological undertow that made superior entries such as Se7en (1995) and tv’s Millennium (1996-9) so compulsively watchable. There is a reasonable twist ending but the plot lacks a grip that holds the attention. Rutger Hauer goes through the paces – he is now in his 50s and visibly aging. It’s been a long time since he has given a performance that has had any passion and life to it.
Director Mario Zoorpardi’s other genre films include:- the time travel film Thrill Seekers/The Time Shifters (1999), the clairvoyance film Still Small Voices (2006), The Last Jinn (2010) and Witchslayer (2010).
Copyright Richard Scheib 1999-2012
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