To point out little flaws in this one would be like looking at a demolished car and complaining that the taillight doesn't work.
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
Nothing sums up the film better than its parting shot, in which maggots are projectile vomited directly toward the audience.
Make no Bones about it, Snoop's latest starring movie role is a real dog.
The promotional tagline for Bones fittingly reads, 'Unleash the Dogg.' The filmmakers sure did, and in more ways than one.
The last half-hour falls apart, with a shower of maggots, stage blood, catchphrases and nonsensical plot devices.
If grossness gives you the giggles, at least a couple of the movie's effects indeed put a little 'wow' in this cinematic bowwow.
Although Snoop's fans might enjoy the proceedings, even blood and gore aficionados might be disappointed by the unrealistic looking mayhem that's put on display here.
It probably won't make one hide under the bed, but Bones should more than satisfy horror movie fans, as it employs a believable plot, just-enough spooky elements and a dose of dark humor.
Only Pam Grier, the veteran of the last golden age of Blacksploitation cinema, acquits herself admirably here.
A silly, boring supernatural thriller that squanders a potentially interesting premise.
A garish, grotesque slab of silliness drowned in bloody visual effects overkill with an end result that is more horrible than horrific.
Dickerson stays true to the tradition in the film's last third, which turns seriously stupid, and finally outright comic.
A fright film with a bit of social consciousness, a few good laughs and some nice, formal nods to such baroque Italian horror masters as Dario Argento and Mario Bava, Bones nevertheless turns into a typical modern genre piece.
Bones is a ghetto fabulous blaxploitation freak show that will surely swish over people's heads.
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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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