These unsettling moments have become par for the course in a modern horror thriller. Near the end of the film, during a life-and-death tussle, one character sinks his teeth into the jugular of his attacker and emerges looking like a vampire with unusually sloppy table manners. A young man, also held underground in shackles, is discovered covered with squirming rats that, when dispersed by a gunshot, reveal his greedily picked-over body. A woman found shackled in the bowels of New York and cooked alive by scalding steam resembles a giant oozing radish. 'Bone Collector': A Taxi Ride to Torture Provokes a Chase! Since movies keep pushing the envelope of the acceptably gruesome, even the nastiest sights glimpsed in Phillip Noyce's preposterous thriller "Bone Collector" should strike jaded moviegoers (those who relished "Seven," for 'Bone Collector': A Taxi Ride to Torture Provokes a Chase! Since movies keep pushing the envelope of the acceptably gruesome, even the nastiest sights glimpsed in Phillip Noyce's preposterous thriller "Bone Collector" should strike jaded moviegoers (those who relished "Seven," for instance) as ho-hum shocks.
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