BONES

Name: BONES
Item: BONES
Author: Review

“Death Rattle”

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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What You Need To Know:

BONES stars rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg as a gambling kingpen who uses occult means to come back to life to wreak revenge on the drug dealers who murdered him. Years after his death, the ghost of Jimmy Bones haunts his headquarters in the inner city, aided by a mongrel dog possessed by either Bones or a demon. The dog kills a couple of young white men. A young man returns to the building where his African-American father grew up to turn the building into a nightclub. He befriends a young black woman in the neighborhood who lives with her mother, a psychic who used to be Jimmy’s lover. Secrets are revealed when Bones manages to resurrect his own body and to exact his bloody revenge.

There’s a laudable anti-drug message in this movie, but the story’s occult worldview is reprehensible. The demonic Jimmy Bones ultimately defeats everyone, including the innocent couple. This is perplexing, because horror movies that show evil victorious almost never make much money. BONES also fails to rebuke the occultism of the young woman’s psychic mother. Finally, BONES contains strong, graphic, violence, brief nudity and plenty of strong, gratuitous foul language

Content:

(OOO, C, LLL, VVV, S, NN, AA, DD, M) Strong occult worldview where the demonic defeats goodness, plus an act of sacrifice to save the lives of others; at least 137 mostly strong obscenities & 19 mostly strong profanities; strong, often graphic violence including demonic dog attacks people with scary sound effects of animal tearing bodies apart, thousands of maggots come out of demonically resurrected man’s mouth & land on people & their drinks & food, people stab man to death, visions of Hell & blood, gruesome revenge murders, woman burns to death, & some bloody images of corpses; implied fornication; images of partial female nudity in one scene & dead people lying in ashes, black oil & mud in Hell; alcohol use & drunken revelry at young people’s pagan club; smoking, brief drug use, villains force man to smoke crack in effort to get him to join their drug gang, but they eventually have to murder the man when he rebels; and, illegal gambling.

More Detail:

BONES stars rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg as a gambling kingpen in the inner city who uses occult means to come back to life to wreak revenge on the drug dealers who murdered him. Years after his death, the ghost of Jimmy Bones haunts the vestiges of his headquarters in the inner city, aided by a mongrel dog possessed by either Bones or a demonic spirit. The dog kills a couple of young white men trying to buy some drugs.
Another young man returns to the building where his African-American father grew up to turn the building into a nightclub. He befriends a young black woman in the neighborhood who lives with her mother, a psychic who used to be Jimmy’s lover. Secrets are revealed when Bones manages to resurrect his own body and to exact his bloody revenge.
There’s a laudable anti-drug message in this horror movie, but the story’s occult worldview is reprehensible. The demonic, supernatural Jimmy Bones ultimately defeats everyone, including the young innocent couple. This is very perplexing, because horror movies that show evil victorious almost never make much money. BONES also fails to rebuke the occultism of the young woman’s psychic mother. Finally, BONES contains strong, often graphic, violence, brief nudity and plenty of strong, gratuitous foul language.