After multiple television seasons
of camera tricks and practical jokes, a raggedy team of ghost hunters finally
encounter a house that serves up legitimate frights, sending the team into a
fight for survival and for one particular group member, a hunt for ratings.
Charisma Carpenter (Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Expendables) is the most familiar face in this movie, and it
seems like budget cuts were made in the makeup department because she looks
human in this film, unlike her previous roles where she looks like as
unblemished, arousing deity. Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis Can’t Lose) is a close second; not
because you remember him from anything specific, you just know you have seen
this guy in something somewhere before, usually in a b-movie on SyFy – HEY,
guess what House of Bones is? But the
difference is that House of Bones is
actually a decent flick. SyFy was able to hammer out a movie with some decent
special effects, except for one scene involving a green screen and a hole in
the floor, and some nice kills courtesy of a mean-spirited house.
Basically, House of Bones is Monster
House for grown ups. Considering the heaps of garbage SyFy churns out annually,
occasionally they offer up a contender – not necessarily a winner, but
something that people can at least say that is not the biggest cinematic turd
ever laid. House of Bones offers some adequate performances, impressive
debauchery, and the usual, laughable b-movie flubs in continuity and camera
shots.
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