Nonureva Really Surprised!

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Michael O'Keefe 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.

aesgaard41 There's a house in the neighborhood that is at the center of several unexplained disappearances. Instead of the police trying to solve the mystery, in comes the cast of a paranormal TV show called "Sinister Sites." "House Of Bones" is actually kind of interesting to watch, but it never goes anywhere or answers any questions. It starts out with what sounds like what will be a decent haunted house movie, but it soon distorts into a substandard serial killer movie. Worst part, there is very little haunted house about this plot which is mostly all about nothing. All we know is that the structure called the Old Wicker House seems to have a presence of its own, but how that connects to the missing neighborhood kids is left unanswered. As far as haunted house movies go, there is nothing really new or fresh. The plot stays incoherent and gives a lot of clues, but it doesn't explain anything except that the house requires a caretaker to keep it alive to stuff the bodies in the walls or dump them into the well under the old servant's quarters in back. It's not scary, but it does exude atmosphere. Corin Nemec plays the TV host of the series, but instead of going out on a limb and playing the role as a sensitive guy, he reverts to type and plays the host as a conceited windbag. Charisma Carpenter wanders through her scenes looking for something to do; she is practically wasted in this film. There's no character development, not much story and at times, the plot gets a bit confusing. The TV ghost hunters get trapped in the house and somehow deduce incredible scenarios and far-fetched ideas of what's happening. It seems the house may be eating people, so they try to poison it. Why not just burn it down? Because that would have made more sense. Just when things can't get more ridiculous, one guy goes nuts and starts killing everyone. You don't why, he just does. No explanation given. I can only figure he wanted to end the movie that much faster. If only he had did this twenty minutes in before things became far-fetched. Nemec gets killed by the killer swinging a tree branch; yes, I said a tree branch. I guess the killer was just too lazy to get something that would do some damage, like a knife or a chainsaw. Nemec's character even "holds" on to the branch after he dies. The death scenes are boring – one character chokes on a glass shard without even bleeding to death under some very weird and wrong physics. Nothing is explained, the movie just runs on what little steam it has and wraps itself. Movie over. I would say "House Of Bones" is worth a watch, but you won't get scared.

PhantomAgony Anyone who watches original SyFy movies knows what to expect - a low budget look, often a poor script and average to below average acting. No one watches an original SyFy film for greatness - it's just shameless entertainment even if that entertainment comes from how bad the movie is and House of Bones is really no different.Basically, there is a TV show called Sinister Sites that goes to 'haunted' houses, films footage and airs what they found. Up till the latest house, the crew hadn't really found anything spooky and relied on smoke machines and tactics (always shoot at night) to drum up the scare factor and manipulate their nothing findings into an interesting show for viewers to watch. The ratings for the show were dropping so the show added a pretty female psychic to the team (Charisma Carpenter) and also decided that rather than stand behind a green screen and host the show, the host would actually go to the locations as well.Of course THIS house is not like the others - it's actually HAUNTED. People have been disappearing from this home for years (slaves, prostitutes, children) with the last person disappearing in 1950 - a little boy. Things immediately seem odd when the refrigerator is stocked full of fresh produce/food despite no one having lived there in decades. Then, as the crew starts setting up cameras and devices throughout the house, one of the members goes MISSING! .. and let the craziness ensue. I can not stress enough that if you want to watch this movie because you like Charisma Carpenter, just pass. Although she's technically in most of the movie, she doesn't really do anything. She's the psychic and she spends most of the movie randomly walking through the house getting vibes saying nothing other than the occasional 'We need to leave' or 'This house is evil' and is often randomly in the background of scenes where the other actors are actually doing/saying things. She doesn't have much dialogue and doesn't really actually do anything beyond what an extra could handle till maybe the last twenty minutes and even then, it's nothing to write home about. Just a fair warning seeing as how this movie is horrible. No reason to watch for her since it's not worth it - trust me.In the end, you have a stupid, cheaply made SyFy movie that completely falls apart in the past 3rd of the film. It gets too ridiculous and stupid to be taken even partially serious and by the end you will probably be laughing like me at how DUMB it is. Just pass. 3/10

Scarecrow-88 Charisma Carpenter stars as a psychic who "reads" supposedly "haunted places" hired by a reality TV show. Corin Nemic is a self-absorbed celebrity television host whose cheesy show, Sinister Sites, is sinking in the ratings, needing a boost so he reluctantly agrees to attend(or so he thinks)the newest selected house(The Wicker House, where a child went missing), which, unlike other fraud turkeys, is legitimately haunted. Charisma senses a lot of pain which will visit upon the Sinister Sites crew over a night shoot. It doesn't take long before paranormal activity rears it's ugly head. Technical equipment(cameras, sound microphones,recorders, even a little remote controlled robot)are put to good use in the hopes of capturing something substantially significant. Sci-fi channel haunted house flick wears out the usual, and very tired, clichés. There's a well located in the slaves quarters(..which is now an abandoned shack)which is kind of a belly of the Wicker house(..we actually hear crunching sounds after a dead body is thrown into it, signaling it's feeding!)and come to find that it must be fed. Those caught in the house include Carpenter(..as Heather), producer Tom Rule(Rick Robinson, Jr, who gets all excited at the possibilities that this show will yield actual results seeing career advancement), crew members Greg(Marcus Lyle Brown) and Simon(Collin Galyean)& invited guest Bub(Kyle Russell Clements). We soon discover that the house is needing a "caretaker" to provide it with human nourishment. Nemec doesn't really factor into the plot, as host/executive producer Quentin, until the very end, and really doesn't have much to do other than bemuse as a smug Hollywood "star". Carpenter remains frightened and cautious(..when she isn't ill either from spitting blood or gagging hair?!?!). The character of Tom changes behavior almost spontaneously, which never makes a hell of a lot of sense, going from scared rabbit wanting to get out of the house, to voluntary killer willing to do it's evil bidding. Stephanie Honore is Sarah, the house's Realtor, and unfortunate victim when she shows up, believing she was called by Simon, when in fact it was the building's evil to summoned her! Ridiculous plot, story developments, and finale sink this pitiful movie which is devoid of thrills or chills. An eye is gouged by a small drill, an ax is hurled into a victim's back, a sharred piece of window glass stabs into another victim's mouth, etc. I figured this was more or less a spoof on "ghost reality shows", such as sci-fi channel's very own "Ghost Hunters", failing miserably.