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Bones (2001)

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Reviews Counted:65

Fresh:14

Rotten:51

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Slow to start, the sleek looking Bones is more silly than scary.

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: BONES features rapper Snoop Dogg in his first starring role as the benevolent neighborhood kingpin, Jimmy Bones, who is betrayed and murdered in 1979, and returns to get his horrific revenge twenty... BONES features rapper Snoop Dogg in his first starring role as the benevolent neighborhood kingpin, Jimmy Bones, who is betrayed and murdered in 1979, and returns to get his horrific revenge twenty years later. Patrick (Khalil Kain), the son of one of the witnesses to the murder, Jeremiah (Clifton Powell), decides to turn the creepy abandoned brownstone where Bones once lived into a nightclub. He and his crew move into the building, where a terrifying presence makes itself known. Patrick also meets the beautiful Cinnabar (Bianca Lawson), the daughter of Bones' old flame, Pearl (Pam Grier). But the vengeful spirit released from the old house jeopardizes their newfound love, and their lives. Drenched in stage blood and sprinkled with sex, BONES delivers its gory chills in the style of Italian horror masters like Mario Bava and Dario Argento, with a touch of Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name thrown in. Director Ernest Dickerson proved his skill at horror with the entertaining TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT. Here, he puts a hip-hop spin on a classic horror narrative. The updated motif gives the film a sociopolitical edge, and Snoop's performance harkens back to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. [More]

Starring: Snoop Dogg, Michael T. Weiss, Pam Grier, Khalil Kain

Starring: Snoop Dogg, Michael T. Weiss, Pam Grier, Khalil Kain, Sean Amsing, Ricky Harris, Bianca Lawson, Merwin Mondesir, Clifton Powell

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Screenwriter: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe
Producer: Lloyd Segan, Peter Heller, Rupert Harvey
Composer: Elia Cmiral
Studio: New Line Cinema

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Mark Halverson

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1/4

David Nusair

It takes a full hour before anything interesting happens (believe me, I checked)...

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Guylaine Cadorette

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Hollywood.com

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2/4

Tyler Hanley

Interesting characters and witty dialogue are overshadowed by predictable gore and an overblown climax.

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Palo Alto Weekly

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Denver Rocky Mountain News

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John Venable

...this blows supremely and it's not Snoop's fault.

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Supercala.com

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Boston Phoenix

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JoBlo

A fun, over-the-top, campy horror flick starring the perfectly cast Snoop Dogg.

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Owen Gleiberman

May be pure trash, but it's trash made with the kind of oozy psychedelic zest that powered a movie like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

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Entertainment Weekly

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Scott Weinberg

It's just too bad that every horror movie released these days has a numeral attached to it, or in this case...should have one.

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Brian Orndorf

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May 16, 2007: Ernest Dickerson to Direct "Dracula" Sequel
An "officially sanctioned" sequel to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is about to hit the bookshelves ... and the movie screens. More...

November 30, 2005: Did You Hear the One About the Haunted Cancer Clinic?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gold Circle films has purchased "Haunting in Connecticut" from screenwriters Tim Metcalfe & Adam Simon. The story has to do... More...

April 21, 2005: Shankman & Sarah Jessica to Spend Some Time in the "Slammer"
Now that "Sex and the City" is over and done with, actress Sarah Jessica Parker is grabbing on to a few movie roles, one of which will be the dark comedy... More...

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