Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Michael Ledo This is a 2010 made for US TV with noticeable commercial pauses. A group of TV ghost hunters, who have their own bag of tricks of "smoke and mirrors" opt to do a show at the Wicker House which turns out to be seriously haunted. Charisma Carpenter plays a psychic providing some minor eye-candy. The house had a fair creep factor to it and the production itself was a slightly better than average US TV offering. Worth a watch, but not a keeper.

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.

OldAFSarge "House of Bones" is a 90 minute, 2010, TV-14 horror movie that was filmed in Crowley, La, which is located in South Central Louisiana.The main characters are Heather, a psychic, played by Charisma Carpenter, which you most likely remember from not only "Buffy", but "Angel" as well or "Greek" another T.V. series. I must admit at this point that I was watching the almost horrible "The Hills Have Eyes II" on Sy-Fy this past Saturday night, when I got up to check on what was coming up next. I looked up the Sy-Fy schedule on-line and got this name and then used IMDb to check it out. Seeing that it had Charisma in it, I decided to stay up and watch it. Turned out to be a pretty decision.Corin Nemec, whom I must admit, I don't really care for, was another semi-big-name and he did play his part to the hilt. Most of the rest of the cast, I didn't have a clue about, but kudos to them as they did a really good job in making this a decent horror movie.Like others have said, it has been done before and in many cases much better. Without giving anything away, it feels like "Rose Red" meets "Ghost Hunters." Actually it is what I wish "Ghost Hunters" was more like, but that might just push the envelope a bit too much. None the less, this was a decent, no, not great, but decent enough horror movie for me to stay up and watch and if I found it at my local video store or the local Wal-Mart, in their bargain bin for under $5.00, I would pick it up and add it to my B-move collection.I will say that I thought the house was pretty nice and the well-house was a nice twist as well.

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