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This Halloween, unleash the Dogg.
Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.
Bones
2001 Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
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Alternative Title
Bones - Bis auf die Knochen
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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,…
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Super happy this finally hit blu after all these years—Love the blaxploitation Elm Street Hellraiser vibes, Suspiria maggot scene, 1979 ghetto gangster Snoop, Pam Grier (!!!), and severed head finale! Recently found the soundtrack (along with the Bride of Chucky and Dracula 2000 discs lol) in a box of cds from when I moved so I’ve been spinning it in the car lately.
Can’t believe this is almost twenty years old... “it’s a trip, ain’t it?”
jimmy bones!
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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…
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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 ❤
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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…
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"Crack is whack." - Whitney Houston (NIF)
Almost every time Bones wasn't on screen I would get sad, and I'd think 'oh man...where's Bones?'
Bones was killed in the 1970s by bad people. Bones (Snoop Dogg) comes back to life because of a dog and then revenge. I think if that many people warned me about a dog, I'd just be like 'maybe we shouldn't get this fucking dog.' Also, Pam Grier is in this in a role I wish was cooler but still cool. OH...and there are super boring teens.
I really liked the parts with Snoop Dogg and most of the horror. There are little homages to various blaxploitation films from the 70s that are fun. I wish they took out nearly all of the stuff with the teens and spent far more time on the bad guys and stuff.
It's fine.
P.S. Who knew Mary Queen of Scots stole a scene from Bones.
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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.
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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.
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Digging through some boxes from my last move and I found this relic on dvd... I’m pretty damn happy I did. jimmy bones!!
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Man, the world really did Ernest Dickerson and Snoop Dogg dirty by not making Bones a hit. 😕
I had never seen this one until today, and while it’s not mind blowing or anything,
I had a ton of fun with it!I remember when this came out and I really wanted to see it, but I wasn’t able to find anyway to get in and see it, since I was only 14 at the time. I remember I was so jealous of a couple of my friends who managed to sneak in and see it. My friend Greg (whose opinion on things I held in high regard, for some reason) then told me “It was really whack” and then…
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I'm really glad Ernest Dickerson got to let his horror nerd freak flag fly on this but also disappointed that people still have trouble appreciating that because this has just about everything I want out of a horror movie and I would've gladly ingested 6 more of these. Unsurprisingly KILLS it with the cinematography considering Dickerson's background, but there's some real legit stuff happening on a practical FX level as well, especially for a movie to come out of the cesspit that was 2000s horror. I'm trying to highlight a favorite part but there's so much to choose between either a dog projectile-barfing maggots, a guy just Rear Window-ing everything, or this other-dimensional Screaming Mad George-style wall where Jimmy Bones collects souls. I couldn't stop thinking this is what shit like Leprechaun in the Hood was trying to do, except I didn't actively have to lower my standards to enjoy it.
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Good morning and welcome fellow Children of Chaos.
This movie is better than it has any right to be.
A dog summons the power of Ghost Snoop Dog by eating. Then Snoopy gets revenge on the people that killed him.
Also Katherine Isabelle is in this movie being all sexy and stuff. Honesty this movie is tense, and filled with interesting characters. Snoopy the Dog is actually pretty decent playing this noble gangster in the 70s. He is charming and excludes cool.
The gore in this one is pretty good as well. However there are 2 things holding this movie back.
I hate hearing the n word. It just makes me cringe every time I hear it, no matter who…