House of Bones (2010)

Wonderful character development!

One of my all time favorites.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Paranormal investigators from a syndicated TV series get more than they bargained for when they set up to investigate a New Orleans home. Quentin French(Corin Nemic)just can't believe his paranormal investigation series is losing viewers and very close to being canceled. After all, shot in front of a "green screen" with special effects is not fooling serious viewers. Trying to save his job, the film crew is going to New Orleans to investigate a home that has been vacant a long time and carries the rumors of spooky things happening. No sooner than the co-star Heather Burns(Charisma Carpenter)and crew can get completely set up...the haunted house is beginning to prove itself. By the time self-centered French arrives in the rain, crew members are already experiencing supernatural activity. Some nice FX, but it now makes you start wondering about the actual shows you watch every week. Are they phony baloney? After all, how real does your enjoyment have to be? Carpenter is absolutely h-o-t! Also featured are: Ricky Wayne, Marcus Lyle Brown, Gregory Campo, Jake Austin Walker and Kyle Russell Clements. Not a total waste. There is even some laughs or two. That is if you are into sick humor. Actually filmed in Crowley, Louisiana.

Intent on providing a new feature, a paranormal research show decides to use a reportedly haunted house for their next shoot only to discover the house is genuinely haunted and try to uncover its dark secrets to get out alive.This is one of the more impressive and enjoyable entries in the style with a lot of rather enjoyable aspects to it. One of the main reasons for that is the fact that this one manages to include so many different clichés about the style while doing them in a manner that's enjoyable without really beating over the head how cliché they are. The opening starts to the house walk-through is a major example, as the malfunctioning tools, exaggerated readings and faulty opportunities to utilize the skills they've honed throughout their stint on the show are all quite logical and necessary for such a movie yet they come off as enjoyable here on their own while also subconsciously building to another factor down the road. Likewise, the incidents that occur once they're actually going through the house here are some of the most enjoyable parts of the movie with some actually chilling moments on display as the crumbling walls, haunting voices and other interferences with their equipment start building up a rather intriguing idea here that tends to match the earlier segments quite well, selling the idea that the house is truly haunted and they're in far over their heads here by staying firm to their belief that it's all a gag. Once that turns into the actually freaky events, from the shower disappearance to the battle up in the attic with the zombie-like slave ghost and the ending battle in the sewer system underneath the house this really tends to come alive with lots of action and some rather chilling moments here to make for some interesting and even chilling moments that really provide this with some gruesome, gory deaths as a result. There's one rather off factor about the film here because it does tend to throw around the back-story of the house and it's history far too late into the film so that it does tend to peter out and almost grind to a halt here by stopping for the lengthy and overlong explanation that stops the momentum the film had built up with all the hauntings and spiritual dealings beforehand that make for quite an impressive showing before this kills that slightly. It's not enough to really harm the film, but it is something to contend with in here.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.

Redbox rental. One technique was used that I thought was original was the perception of the actor compared to what is advanced in the plot! Totally different! I don't want to give it away, you will see what I mean.I enjoyed the movie! Just got through TRYING to watch "The Vow" (gag, turned off after a respectable 45 minute attempt) and "Killjoyhell" (sorta funny, but after an even more respectable 55 minutes I cut off) but I was actually able to watch this all the way through. CC may of had a little to do with it, but watching the entire movie is a plus recommendation!Certainly the plot is familiar and it is not scary to the viewer- it is not meant to be. Which means there are no annoying loud sound effect on some stupid event meant to jolt (5 year old's at this point in the movie business). Instead, you watch some jaded show-crew and producer face something unexpected. Some fine women actors top it off.

To be honest, I was expecting House of Bones to be really bad. But actually, while heavily flawed it is not as bad as other SyFy movies. It is competently made, with decent editing and atmospheric lighting. Effects are kept at minimal and while nothing great when they are there they are much better than those in other SyFy efforts, not as fake-looking. Apart from an irritating performance from Corin Nemec and a disengaged Charisma Carpenter, the acting is about average, with nobody bad but also nobody standing out. The house is well-used and quite creepy, and the well-house twist was pretty nice. However, the sound effects and such are rather obvious sometimes, and the film is further brought down by a cheesy script, really obnoxious and stereotypical characters(especially the TV host), a story that while not dull is predictable, implausible(this may have been avoided if some of the ideas took slower to unfold) and completely let down by a suspense-less, downbeat and utterly ridiculous final third and too many scenes that are rather tame in alternative to unsettling. All in all, better than expected but nothing all that special at the end of the day. 4/10 Bethany Cox