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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,…

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…

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…

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…