Bones

Author

Ernest R Dickerson

Call Number

• DVD MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN, EAS, WSQ)

Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.

Performers

Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Khalil Kain, Clifton Powell, Bianca Lawson, Michael T. Weiss, Ricky Harris, Katharine Isabelle.

Publication Information

[Burbank, CA] : New Line Home Entertainment, [2002]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 92 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; violence/gore, language, sexuality and drugs.

Summary

The time is 1979, Jimmy Bones is respected and loved as the neighborhood protector. When he is betrayed and brutally murdered by corrupt cop Lupovich, Bones' elegant brownstone becomes his tomb. Twenty-two years later, the neighborhood has become a ghetto and his home a gothic ruin. Four teens renovate it as an after hours nightclub, unknowingly releasing Jimmy's tortured spirit. It's thrills and chills as blood spills when Jimmy's ghost sets about its frightful revenge, his killers unaware of the gruesome fate that awaits them. With each new victim the terror mounts and Bones' vengeance spins out of control threatening everyone in his path, including his former lover Pearl.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.

Special features: Filmmaker commentary - Snoop Dogg, director Ernest Dickerson and screenwriter Adam Simon ; original documentaries - Diggin up bones and Urban gothic: Bones and its influences ; deleted scenes with optional director commentary ; music video - Dog named Snoop standard and live versions ; theatrical press kit ; theatrical trailer ; DVD-ROM features.