Bones (2001) Critic Reviews

A sly mix of haunted house melodrama, slasher pic mayhem and retro-blaxploitation iconography, spiced with dollops of grisly, dark comedy.Read the full review

Snoop invests snarling meanness with as much authority as Clint Eastwood used to. As an actor, does this Dogg know any more tricks? At this point, he may not have to.Read the full review

In exalting the very worst of humanity, Bones displays a special glee and an unusual density of scary imagery.Read the full review

You'll laugh at Bones a lot more often than you'll be scared by it, assuming you'll be scared at all.Read the full review

If grossness gives you the giggles, at least a couple of the movie's effects indeed put a little "wow" in this cinematic bowwow.Read the full review

Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like "Hellraiser," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Evil Dead."Read the full review

The movie is over the top and garish. Its transitions often are sloppy and crude. But it brandishes its excesses like a loud, retro suit.Read the full review