Bones

I've read the other comment referring to Snoop Doggs'horror film, Bones....When this first came out it was my favourite horror film but I watched it that many times that it lost its' lustre.

The effects are great and plenty of blood and some gore from the outset. The beginning sets the tone for the rest of the film as it's one of those films that you just NEED to get to the bottom of why it is happening and what actually took place to cause it. It all unfolds at a pace enough to keep your interest as a viewer. This film is still a very watchable and enjoyable film in my opinion, even today.

It was nice to see Snoop in something different and anyone that is a Snoop Fan will enjoy this film all the more.....7 out of 10.

I feel like the bad reviews for this film are due to people taking the film too seriously which wasn't the intent . This film serves as an homage to blaxploitation films that were popular in the 70s and 80s, while also serving as a satirical tribute to slasher films also popular during that era . aside from our main casts, the characters are baseless and undeveloped to the point that the film sometimes comes off as a parody . The gore and effects also come off cheap at times, but I guess that's apart of the charm of this film . I also notice the premise sort of pays homage to Candyman in regards to race-relations, gangs, and the drugs within the community

I thought the film also has an entangling storyline . good movies are supposed to give a backstory to our main antagonist in a way that we feel somewhat empathetic with them . That's exactly what this film does with our main antagonist Snoop Dogg who gives a great performance as Jimmy Bones and is enticing when on the screen . In a way we begin to root for him and his vengeance against the less like-able (and quite frankly soul-less) characters .Pam Grier also gives a great performance as Jimmy's lover . ironically she was also the star of the blaxploitation film "Foxy Brown" , so it was great seeing her in a film that pays homage to an era she was apart of .

Overall I think this film has its flaws , but it was pretty damn solid and enjoyable to watch . Over the years it's gotten its cult following and rightfully so. Bones is a great staple in black horror

Man this film is da Shizzy! Scary as! and da dogg is running wild, man, at the start he even is a dog! Genius! Basically the plot is that some dudes went and whacked Jimmy Bones back in the day but they never bet on him coming back from the dead. Then business starts to pick up! I liked this film cuz it was pretty moral, with Snoop givin gangstas what they deserve but at the same times you could tell he understood that sometimes people make you do bad and it ain't really yo' fault. Pam Grier is back to doin' what she does best after the blip that was Jackie Brown. My only gripe was the gratuitious nudity but other than that 11 out of 10!!! Roll on the sequel.

I was doubtful about this movie when I went to the cinema to watch it last weekend, but after having watched it I reinforce my good opinion about the products made by New Line Cinema. The film is very well done but apart from that, I think it shouldn´t disappoint any fan of horror, it has everything that a good movie of the genre must have, including great amounts of blood, a very good rhythm and effective actors such as Pam Grier(Jackie Brown), the muse of blaxploitation genre from the seventies, a genre which is paid homage in this movie as well as some classics of the genre such as "Hellraiser" or "Reanimator", although the introduction of the comic element paying homage to that movie was for me the weakest element of the whole(it broke the so tenebrous atmosphere).Finally, director Ernst. R.Dickerson who also directed the not so good but entertaining "tales from the Crypt: Evil Knight" assured that this movie had elements from Italian horror cinema, I don´t know but perhaps there is one: The warms.A homage to Lucio Fulci?, I know there is many homages here but it is the same for other movies and the cocktail is far from being so effectively combined as here.I don´t think they are going to make a sequel, but I am looking forward eagerly the next movie from this director and I wish "Resident Evil" was so satisfactory.

Yeah, like pretty much every other horror movie that hits the theaters, this one took a pretty heavy trashing both, from the critics and from the audiences who didn't understand it. However, I found "Bones" to be a highly enjoyable, entertaining, and (at times) creepy horror flick that I hope, is the birth of a new franchise. It's very refreshing to see a horror flick that can take a standard premise and make it seem fresh again. Also, I enjoyed the killer being a someone who we can sympathize with. Let me break it down a little bit.

Back in 1979, Jimmy Bones was the man of his neighborhood. Just what all he was into is never fully explained, but we do know that he runs a pretty classy little nightclub and loves to dress in full-pimp get-up. Basically, Bones is a good guy. All he wants to do is run his business and take care of his people. However, when he is propositioned to bring in crack, he refuses and is double-crossed then murdered by people he thought he could trust.

Jump twenty years into the future and we get a group of twenty-somethings who have just bought the building where Bones was murdered. Hoping to turn the place into a club, they ignore all warnings of the place's evil and pretty soon, they mess around and wake the dead. Now that Bones is back, he's upset, understandably, and wants revenge on the people who did him wrong.

That's it. Kinda sounds like Nightmare On Elm Street right? Well, it's a lot like it and a lot of others you may have seen. What set this one apart for me was the lead. Casting Snoop Dog as Jimmy Bones was perfect. I've never been a big fan of his acting, but here, he pulls it off great giving us a villain that we can sympathize with, care about, and root for. We know where he's coming from and watching him take his revenge on the dispicable villains was fun fun fun. I also enjoyed the romantic angle brought to the film by the chemistry between Snoop and Pam Grier. I don't think that it would have gone down near as well had there been a different set of actors, but it gave a real soft side to Bones and made me like him that much more.

I really loved the cinematography and having the blood look intentionally fake, was also a nice touch. Unlike some others, I really enjoyed the shifting in tones. The first 2/3 of the picture had a really dark and gothic tone to it while the latter third had a little bit of comic relief thrown in. Yes, it went WAY over the top (the severed heads, that whole "world of the dead" bit) but, for me, that added to the overall joy of the film and made it that much more. It also made it VERY hard to take it serious. It's pretty hard to find a good horror flick these days (and a mainstream one, at that) and I'm sure that I'll be adding this one to my dvd collection pretty soon. Oh, (I don't think I'm giving too much away here) the door is left open for a whole slew of sequels. I can't wait.