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Bones [VHS]

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1 star:		(8)

 

 

This is a very cool Nightmare On Elm Street-esque horror flick that does everything right. Great plot, great acting, Pam Grier, and awesome special effects are just some of the things this movie has going for it. I was on the edge of my seat most of the time, just waiting to see what disturbing imagery was about to be thrown at me next. If you are a fan of old-school Wes Craven, or just the horror genre in general, check this movie out. It's very good. The DVD is PACKED with extra features too...it's very worth it!

This movie was good, it would have got 5 stars but the ending was trash. The special effects are good and the story was good and the movie was tight up until the end, where it changed to garbage.

Bones is an african-american horror flick that can stand with any of the all white cast horrors. Bones stars Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Khalil Cain and Clifton Powell.

Bones is a tale of betrayal, murder and revenge. It is also a story within a story. The past and present day scenes are mixed together nicely. If the viewer needs a potty break or snack, my advice is to pause the tape...you don't want to miss a single detail.

In 1979, Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg) was a well respected hoodlum for lack of a better title, who loved and protected his black community. Other street hustlers wanted to bring crack into the hood and Jimmy Bones did not approve. He is brutally murdered in front of his woman (Pam Grier), body guard and childhood buddy.

Present day has some young buppies from the suburbs purchasing property in the ghetto/hood so that they can open a club as a business venture. They want to show themselves approved to their successful father. After purchasing the run down brownstone that belonged to Jimmy Bones, the terror is unleashed! Prepare yourself for thrills, chills, terror, bloody murder scenes and lots of screams with a bit of humor added in the most unlikely spots. As the story merges 1979 and present day (twenty plus years later) you will know that this should be a classic and wonder why it did not get as much recognition as it should have at the box office.

For those old school viewers...the writer's inspiration must have been the 1970s horror flick J.D.'s Revenge.

BONES stars rap artist Snoop Doggy Dogg as a gangster from the 1970's who comes back from the dead to punish the people who betrayed him and who are responsible for his death. The cast includes sexy actress Bianca Lawson and Pam Grier, the special effects in the film are above average, and the script has many plotlines running through it. I saw this movie on Halloween night and it was much better than I expected. BONES is a hip, edgy thriller that has horror, suspense, drama, and even a little bit of romance. Snoop Dogg pulls it off as a good guy gone bad when he comes back from the dead!

I liked this movie. The main plot was boring (Hi, we're some dumb teenagers unaware of the horror that is to befall us) and I hated the actors, but the whole "Bones" storyline was entertaining.

Bones (Snoop Dogg) was a player back in the 70s. He made his money selling lottery tickets, because the poor folk couldnt afford to travel out of state to buy them. He really seemed to care about his little hood. But then, one of his good friends sets up a meeting with a crooked cop. They want Bones to bring crack into the community. Bones refuses and is killed. His girlfriend is there the whole time. This is all explained through flashbacks.

Fast forward to present day. Bones' girlfriend still lives in the old "hood" with her daughter. Meanwhile, a group of teens buy the old run down house that Bones was murdered in so many years ago. It just so happens that the father of one of the teens was that friend of Bones who set up the meeting that got him killed. He is now succesful and out of the ghetto, and is really mad that his kids bought that house, because he knows that is where they killed and buried Bones...anyway.

The kids plan to turn it into a hip hop club. Bones somehow rises from the grave and causes mayhem.

This movie shows gore and tries to be funny about it. The blood is a dark pink color for some reason. Most of the time it is funny. But also decent gore. It really falls apart at the end. Cheesy, stupid ending.

But you can get this DVD for cheap, so I say go for it. I'm not sorry I bought it.

A ghost returns 20 years after his murder to get his revenge on his assailants. Bones is a fun movie that isn't appreciated enough. It's gory, creative, and different. And, for some reason, it's funny to see Snoop Dogg in a horror movie.

I LOVED THIS MOVIE IT WAS A GOOD SCAREY MOVIE DIFFERENT FROM MOST HORROR FLICKS.

Doesn't anyone get the joke? This movie is funny and scary at the same time. I must say that I somewhat enjoyed the film. I bought it so that I can watch it every Halloween.
A pimp (Snoop Dogg) is murdered and comes back a few decades later to kill the people who wronged him, oh, and their children too. This is like Freddy Kruger in the hood. The black Elm Street.
The film's special effects are pretty believable and the directing was pretty good. Snoop is wonderful as the title role and he just seems as if he's having so much fun with the role. For fans of the horror genre I suggest you check this out. It's better than you think it will be.

to me this movie screams oscar! I mean the wonderful acting of Snoop dog as a dead pimp deserves a best actor over anyone. Plus I mean no one else could have played a dead pimp other than snoop. Anyway I give this movie a 5 at least because it is just plain great. buy it immeadiately.

Putting Snoop Dogg in a horror film is a bold move. Making that horror film a throwback to Italian horror and Blaxploitation movies is a really bold move. Along the way, Bones sneaks in commentary about the African-American struggle to succeed while remaining true to one's roots. It's not your average horror flick by any measure.

Dogg plays Jimmy Bones, a drug dealer who is a romantic ideal - he doesn't dabble in anything as denigrating as selling lottery tickets, he refuses to work with The Man (embodied by Michael T. Weiss as Lupovich, an over-the-top corrupt cop), and he absolutely refuses to deal crack cocaine. What Bones doesn't realize is that there's no room in the dog-eat-dog world (get it? Snoop Dogg is in this film!) for a drug dealer with standards. When he turns down rival drug dealer Eddie Mack's (Ricky Harris) offer, Bones is betrayed by lieutenant Jeremiah Peet (Clifton Powell), girlfriend Pearl (Pam Grier), and bodyguard Shotgun (Ron Selmour) all who literally stab him in the back - and in the front - at Lupovich's gunpoint. Buried in the church he called home, Bones swears revenge.

Flash forward to the present day. Unbeknownst to Jeremiah, his rebellious progeny Patrick (Khalil Kain), Bill (Merwin Mondesir) and Tia (Katharine Isabelle) are planning to start a club in the same abandoned church. It's interesting in that Patrick and Bill are dark-skinned and Tia is white - a blend that's a result of Jeremiah's mixed marriage. The movie makes no mention of this, but it lurks in the background of a discussion between the three middle-class kids who argue with their father that crack cocaine was concocted by The Man. Director Ernest Dickerson mythologizes this conflict in Bones' refusal to play along with Mack.

The young upstarts cause quite a bit of a ruckus in their father's old neighborhood, immediately noticed by Shotgun (who for some reason lives across the street from the church that regularly tries to eat him), Pearl and daughter Cynthia (smoking hot Bianca Lawson) and a black mongrel nicknamed Bones that Tia decides to adopt. You can probably guess what moment Bones chooses to manifest and cause havoc.

On the one hand, Bones is a near pitch-perfect love note to Blaxploitation films and horror movies. The blood is candy-colored, maggots explode out of everywhere, and Bones has all the creepy menace of Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Snoop himself is perfect for the part; his dead-eyed, lazy gaze shifts from unfocused benevolence to piercing rage. Snoop doesn't have to do much - his presence and the film's special effects do his talking for him.

On the other hand, the characters are almost unilaterally ridiculous. Patrick and Cynthia's romance is non-existent - she shows up at the church, gets yelled at by her mother, and then returns to the club to make out with Patrick. There's no spark between them and no reason given for their relationship - she's just eye candy forcefully inserted into the plot because she's pivotal to what happens later.

The special effects range from spectacular (you haven't lived until you've seen a dog barf maggots) to ridiculous (the maggots are interspersed with orzo, which is obvious on a high definition television). The movie's tone also teeters from brutal and terrifying to self-mockingly hilarious as Bones collects several animated heads for his collection in hell.

Bones is an odd duck. It wants to be a horror flick, an homage, social media commentary, a black comedy, and a Snoop Dogg media vehicle. Considering Snoop is not an accomplished actor, the fact it even achieves fifty percent of those goals is an impressive achievement.