Bones

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A ghetto horror movie that sets up some decent scares before becoming so amused with itself, it's a wonder we don't hear the crew laughing.