Bones (2001)

Blaxploitation at it's best
Bones is what intends to be a blaxploitation film for the nineties. You don't see many horror films with black casts like you did the seventies. Bones reminds of classic blaxploitation horror flicks like J.D.'s Revenge and Blackenstein. Snoop Dogg makes a wonderful villain and you actually root for his character. Khail Klain and Bianca Lawson are very good in supporting roles. My only complaint is that the film didn't have enough nudity like films of this kind normally do. It's still a lot of fun though and a great gulity pleasure.

LOVED IT
I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE. NOT TOO SCARRY NOT TOO BORING. VERY TO HTE POINT BUT PAY ATTENTION. ONE BLINK AND YOU'LL MISS SOMETHING. I HATE SNOOP DOGG BUT I LIKE THIS MOVIE.

Cut and paste assemblage of borrowed tidbits
The film is original in a few ways but it is mostly a jigsaw puzzle of borrowed elements. One can recognize Clive Barker's Hellraiser, or a new episode of Candyman, or an extension of Nightmare on Elm Street, or even Halloween or some Stephen King film. But it is black, black and black again and the hood is always very close, the hood of Boyz in the Hood and its crack and the execution of the little local gang leader by his associates including his protecting cop, and he finally comes back to get his vengeance, get even and recapture all his executioners and their next generation of children, including his own daughter. That does not make a film with a meaning, just some kind of thrilling entertainment, if you like blood and maggots, underground tunnels and skeletons in some kind of cabinet, or is it a cupboard or a closet? A little bit sad in a way because the situation and the theme could have produced a film with some insight in black imagination, in black white-induced schizophrenia, and it does not.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines