Synopsis
This Dogg's got a bone to pick.
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to avenge those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
2001 Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to avenge those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
Duane Dickinson Melissa R. Stubbs Lloyd Adams Brad Loree Doug Chapman Ernie Jackson Trish Schill Corry Glass Michael Langlois Sylvain Cameron Don Lew Daniel B. Melles Bill Stewart Brenda Adams Erron Gee
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100
It's incredible that a movie like Bones came out amidst the late-90s/early-2000s era of Horror. So much of the output around that time was focused on that Scream money, but most rip-offs didn't have the reverence or knowledge of Horror history to really make a dent in response. Enter Bones: a ghostly Snoop Dogg vehicle that has less to do with Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees than Fulci, Craven, Argento, Stuart Gordon, and Hellraiser. Not to mention the history of Blaxploitation. It's a remix of genuinely novel and underappreciated horror ideas, and then the film deploys them in such a way that you would've thought Screaming Mad George was involved. As much as it is a story of gentrification,…
Ernest R Dickerson is an American Treasure. His work stands nearly alone in the 1990's and 2000's operating at the crossroads of Horror and Hip-Hop Cinema. The only other likely candidates I can think of right now are the Hughes Brothers, who are equally overlooked, but their register is a little different, a little grittier and a little more High Operatic. Dickerson is more EC Comics and Blaxploitation and pulp-driven. Movies like 'Sugar Hill' and 'JD's Revenge' and 'Blacula' are the real cornerstones for 'Bones', and the conceit of making Snoop Dogg an Expressionist Demon From Beyond The Grave Back For Revenge is beyond brilliant. Snoop really gives this performance his all, no longer human, but seething with anger, barely…
I loved this. I loved when the dog projectile barfed maggots. I love Snoop's undeniable screen presence. I love that I'm not a film critic and am under no obligation to say anything else about this because, morherfucker, I can't think of anything to say!!!!
a funny ooey gooey primal scream in alien green/viscera pink/giallo red, a remix of influences into something entirely unique. solidarity with ghosts forever ❤
i stop breathing / damn i see demons, & blood & shadows & maggots & deezer d (rip) from cb4 + katharine isabelle who was in so much early 00s horror they had her showing up as the spunky lil sis in movies with all-black casts. "its the past, son. its dead." "i dont think your past is dead. its alive."
DAWG... DAWG... WHAT WAS THAT FACE DAWG! DAWG I will have nightmares, DAWG. Nightmares!!!... DAWG.
DAWG, from the very beginning, this movie screams 2000s and New Line Cinema. From the editing to the performances to the premise, DAWG. It seems like it could have easily come out of a film made after the 90s but very early in the 2000s, when horror movies still hadn't found a new trend, so they were kind of stuck in the last decade, DAWG. In the case of this story, it is clearly influenced by "Candyman" and "Nightmare On Elm Street" and although at first sight such similarities might be a bit too obvious DAWG, this was a campy fun horror film with some…
Ernest R. Dickerson stayed most of the 90’s and 00’s trying to reimagine Blaxploitation in an era of more political charged black cinema and this one, his only decent budget film I had never seen, is a pretty impressive collection of angry horror imagery. At worse it plays like a hip hop remix of A Nightmare on Elm Street at best it as close to Fulci as post Scream American horror got (great maggots, by the way). It is not always as coherent as it wants to be, but the dilapidated spaces and violence have a bite.
Bones is criminally underrated, and is probably one of the scariest and most likeable black horror movies I've seen.
Bones doesn't have a showy story -- a murdered drug dealer coming back to life for revenge is not something that draws a crowd. However, the genius decision to cast Snoop Dogg as the main villain Jimmy Bones magically brings a breath of fresh air to the stale premise, and adds tons of charm and hilarity to the supposedly one-dimensional character. Snoop is far from a decent actor, but he blends perfectly well with the cast, thanks to his natural, perfect mixture of coolness and menace.
Another highlight from the cast is definitely Pam Grier, who probably delivered the best acting…
1st Ernest R. Dickerson
A great party film, really, one that ultimately plays out like an extended Tales from the Crypt episode, and I mean that as a compliment. Filled to the brim with fun practical effects, including hat-tips to Hellraiser, Suspiria and City of the Living Dead, the paper-thin characterisation does ultimately mean the finale isn't as emotionally resonant as it would like to think it is. But then again, you're watching a film with a dog that declares "the gangster of love don't eat no fried chicken" before vomiting maggots and features a scene where the reanimated head of a drug dealer verbally insults Snoop Dogg while having his face hit against a wall. The enjoyment here is found in the hokey, the absurd, the flamboyant, and if you lean into that you'll have a great time. Great cinematography as well, like a cross between Bava and Spike Lee. Pam Grier, too!
This movie rules so much and it's a legit shame that at the time critics/audiences didn't seem to vibe with it - now as a result we don't have a bunch of NOES-esque BONES sequels. Give me more maggot-barfing dogs and gnarly hell-walls.
Horror trash with Snoop Dogg. An actually pretty good cast and yet nothing really special. The movie also has perhaps the weirdest looking film blood ever.