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.
nattherat123123 this ''film'' (i dare to call it) is so bad when ever a friend brings it up i almost puke the storyline s (aswell as a disappointment) a total mess of various already used scenes.i rate this move a -14 sorry if you were offended in anyway but i would literally rather be stabbed than watch this.AND I ENJOY LOW BUDGET FILMS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!i was surprised to find this movie was directed by the maker of goblin (yet another TV film fest) and many other bad movies made for TV, if your looking for a good time and a film that states its characters enough so you remember them i highly recommend an entirely different film any even if you have to watch a film from the 1920s. you will highly disappointed if you watch this so just take my advice and watch another horror masterpiece unlike this disappointment.
BakuryuuTyranno While not actually scary, House of Bones does succeed in giving the audience the impression the house is haunted. I've seen haunted house films before where it wasn't convincing that people couldn't just leave.Even compared to other films syfy commissioned, the cast's pretty small and there aren't many throwaway characters introduced for body count purposes. The pacing is pretty good actually as one character is taken by the house early leaving the others first confused and later unwilling to leave (assuming the house would even let them).Incidentally there's also less use of CGI than most syfy-commissioned films. The only real problem with "House of Bones" is its anti-climatic ending.
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.
