Film

Bones

Name: Bones
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime, Fantasy
Released: 2001
Cast: Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Michael T. Weiss, Clifton Powell, Ricky Harris

Other titles called Bones: the 2005 series (FOX).

A stylish 2001 horror-thriller where Snoop Dogg returns as a vengeful ghost to reclaim his neighborhood from the criminals who murdered him. It's a fever dream blend of blaxploitation aesthetics, supernatural revenge, and street-level crime drama—visually audacious, tonally wild, and completely committed to its own absurdity. For fans of genre mixing and unapologetic 2000s cinema.

TMDb rating

2.5

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