SanteeFats A supposed reality show that does turn real as it progresses. Charisma Carpenter gets the lead billing and plays a sensitive. When she pulls the string of hair out of her mouth it gets a bit much. She won't leave the house because she says she is the only one that can help. The rest of the crew are pretty much unbelievers in the super natural based on their past shows. When they encounter an actually super natural occurrence they start to freak out. Corin Nemec is the shows star, is an egotistical pretty boy who thinks he is the cats meow, and shows up late for the filming and actually plays kind of a bit part. Marcus Lee Brown is the technical guy. The crew wants to bail on the project but the producer won't let them if they want to stay employed. The cute young bank agent played by Stephanie Honore unfortunately returns to the house and gets killed by shattered glass. The remaining crew finally believes and start a search for the source. They should have stayed together. Feeding the well so they can escape turns to be a bad idea. The end is a little unexpected as the producer goes to the dark side and kills everyone else. He continues on as an agent of the house.

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.

Destroyer Wod I would simply suggest watching this movie for what it is, a simple low budget horror movie. Everything in this is just correct... not bad or not that good. The story is pretty much classic , a haunted house, but they had a few thing to make it goes out of the ordinary. Special Effects are neither awesome but not bad at all, they are lets say believable. Actors where average at best but you are not watching an horror movie for its acting right? Charisma Carpenter should had less clothes on but well... lol. Seriously i enjoyed this little movie on a late night, it won't remain burned in my head for long, but it was entertaining on the moment.

mrohlee I watched "House of Bones" after seeing a mention in USA Today that Charisma Carpenter from Buffy/Angel was starting in it. What a let down. I do not understand why the producers would put her in the movie then give her virtually nothing to do. As a basic "haunted house" movie it is okay. In this case the house doesn't have ghosts living in as the house itself it sort of alive. A team of ghost hunters come after going to 50 other houses none of which showed any real paranormal activity. Charisma sort of shows up with no back story as some class of medium. She is wearing baggy clothes and there is no attempt to glam her up. Okay as the story starts to unwind the ghost hunters are running around the place and about every ten minutes the script has Charisma holding her head and complaining about the evil presence. I kept waiting for her character to step up and take over or become possessed or do something else to become the focal point of the story. But no, it never happens. The part wasn't any kind of a show case, it was something they could have pulled anyone off the street and stuck in there and there wouldn't have to change any dialog. I don't understand this as they could have kept the story virtually the same but have character that gets the most screen time and is alive at the end be played by Charisma. That I would have enjoyed, this is just disappointing.So if you want to see a "C" movie about a haunted house it's okay as a time filler. If you want to see Charisma Carpenter as I did this is not something to watch.