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Bone Daddy (1998)

Bone Daddy poster
Directed by
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Genre
horror film, crime thriller film
Country
United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former forensics expert who wrote a novel about a serial killer is taunted by a real copycat killer. The killer removes bones from living victims.

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What happens

Bone Daddy is a 1998 Canadian–American crime thriller film directed by Mario Azzopardi and starring Rutger Hauer and Barbara Williams. In it, a forensics expert turned novelist is challenged by the perpetrator of the real-life crimes he used for inspiration, a serial killer who robs his victims of their bones while they are still alive. In Canada, the film was released as Palmer's Bones. It was commissioned by HBO for broadcast as part of its "Friday World Premiere" collection in the U.S. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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