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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
Reviews for Bones
A mangy and ungainly movie, a cluttered and uncreepy assembly of stale clichés, telegraphed scares and low-rent effects.
Make no bones about it... this urban frightfest is ridiculously tough to chew on!
A grotesquely uneven schlockfest with large doses of bad writing and bad acting amid the delicious moments.
Splits the difference between horror and social commentary, with pallid returns.
Made with sufficient skill to produce a few shivers. Just as important, it contains enough self-mocking humor to earn a few laughs.
The story is a creepy urban parable with a fondness for 70s street culture and exploitation movies and a moral underpinning, but it never gels.
With his smooth-as-smoke voice and street-strutting panache, Dogg has the makings of a genuinely great actor.
There is howler amusement here, though blaxploitative horror spoofed with so dense a pile-on loses force.
Fails so completely to generate suspense, shock, dramatic momentum or anything else that a kind-hearted viewer may end up rooting for it out of sympathy as it slowly digs its own grave.
Full of fits and starts, it never really gets going, stalling at every turn without even giving us enough of what we paid to see -- Snoop Dogg and gore.
Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like Hellraiser.
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October 22, 2001:
For Snoop Dogg, this sounds like the sort of retro-funk role he was born to play. ![]()
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