Andariel Halo To be as fair as possible, this is not even close to the worst horror movie I have ever seen. But it is done with such a complete and total lack of any sort of spirit or élan that it just doesn't deserve anything other than the lowest possible score. the acting is bad, but not so laughably bad that it becomes fun to mock and deride. some of the actors are clearly doing their best and you can't be mad or derisive at them for it. they're at least putting in effort where it seems absolutely no one else is. and indeed, "no effort" would probably be a better theme for this film and title for this review. this film looks and feels like it was written, produced, and directed by someone who has seen exactly 4 movies in their entire life, and 3 of them were about haunted houses.The ghost hunting stuff is tepidly skimmed upon; we're just supposed to expect and take for granted that they have all this supposed ghost hunting equipment and that it means "spooky ghosts" whenever it makes noise. there's no attempt to even condescend to the audience in explaining one or two of the devices.the music is nonstop all throughout of some of the most generic, nondescript horror movie background music likely taken from an archive and put together out of some misguided belief that every single scene needs overbearing and blatantly obvious music cues as though this were a silent movie musical. it gets to a point where it's so obnoxiously overdone as to come across as amateurish as a children's horror show episode too cheap to be Goosebumps. further driving home the "knock-off children's horror show" mood is the actor playing Quentin, the host of the ghost hunting show who doesn't actually interact with the cast much and acts like what a child might imagine an A-list celebrity talks and acts like. They are a one-dimensional character straight out of Power Rangers, but with no comic relief to justify their existence here. virtually everything else about the film is so boring, generic, and formulaic as to not even warrant attention paid to it. the CG effects are bad and put center-stage so we can clearly see and admire how terrible they are, rather than used sparingly and quickly to enhance a scene. the camera work is flatly "there", as though they set up a camera, turned it on, and that's it. the lighting is as wide open and brightly lit as a sitcom, completely detracting from the mood of a horror movie, and the dialogue is too terrible to be of note, and yet somehow not bad enough to be laughable.

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.

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.

TheNoItAll I just finished watching "House of Bones" and I must say that I was impressed. When I tuned in I thought that I was just watching another boring, pointless Sci-Fi movie or "SyFy" as they now call it. The acting was way better than I was expecting Charisma was great as always, but the others were surprisingly good also. Some of the Special effects were a little cheesy but for a "SyFy" they were great. I was on the edge of my seat from the very start when the boy went to get his baseball and all the way to the very end. The story & plot of a haunted house that wasn't just haunted but very much alive was familiar, probably used before, but still very interesting & in it's own way unique. To sum it up this movie was AMAZING for what it was. Even if it was in the theaters it was still worth watching! I recommend it to anyone who loves horror flicks.