Bonejangles (2017)

While transporting the legendary serial killer Bonejangles to an asylum, a group of police officers break down in a town cursed with demonic zombies. The only way they can survive the night... See full summary »

Director:

Brett DeJager

Writer:

Keith Melcher

Stars:

Elissa Dowling, Reggie Bannister, Julia Cavanaugh

Cast

Credited cast:
Elissa Dowling	...	Rowena
Reggie Bannister	...	Edgar Sr.
Julia Cavanaugh	...	Sally
Wade Everett	...	Janitor
Christopher Hunt	...	Pulaski
Lawrence Wayne Curry	...	Juan
Hannah Richter	...	Lisa
Kelly Misek Jr.	...	Doug
Cory Misek	...	Zombie
Jamie Scott Gordon	...	Randy
Brett DeJager	...	Wes
Connor Quinn	...	Trailer (voice)
Katie Walgrave	...	Jamie
Keith Melcher	...	Bonejangles
Tracy Mailloux	...	Customer

Storyline

While transporting the legendary serial killer Bonejangles to an asylum, a group of police officers break down in a town cursed with demonic zombies. The only way they can survive the night and save the town is to release Bonejangles to help them fight the curse, with something much worse.

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Plot Keywords:

supernatural | serial killer | low brow | zombie | 

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Taglines:

The last sound you'll hear is the rattle of his bones.

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Bonejangles real name is Edgar Friendly jr. This is likely taken from Dennis Leary's character in Demolition Man.

User Reviews

Demonic awfulness

Just to say, was not expecting an awful lot from 'Bonejangles'. Saw it with an open mind, as always with any film etc, and with a real attempt to take it for what it aimed to be, again as always, had to throw that out there because people on the internet so do love to accuse people of not doing those when watching a film it seems. There is never any bias intended when watching any film etc from any decade and any genre. Despite the poor reviews and that it did not look very good, the premise was oddly intriguing.

Even when watching it with an open mind and taking it for what it aimed to be, 'Bonejangles' still managed to be an awful film to me. Want to make something clear as well, did not watch 'Bonejangles' expecting multi-million budget action and such (resent that suggestion and find that insulting), have seen films etc that don't have a high budget but still manage to be watchable or more because other important elements are done decently. People were not expecting that, what they were expecting was something that actually looked and seemed like some kind of effort was put into it. In my mind, 'Bonejangles' doesn't even try.

It is a cheap looking film and looks like it was made and shot on a minus budget, the editing being especially haphazard and the villain looks more goofy in look rather than menacing. That though is actually the least of 'Bojangles' problems.

More problematic is the way it's written. The script throughout is sheer laziness and cheese, where nothing flows naturally and there is the constant cringe factor. 'Bonejangles' fails completely as both comedy, where the jokes bore and offend rather than amuse, and horror. The horror being ruined by absolutely nothing being scary (unintentionally funny more like and sometimes it even struggles to be that), a lot of obviousness, no suspense and lots of gratuitous parts and elements that seemed to be there for the sake of it and abused.

The rare times where there were signs of a story, much thinner than one thinks reading the premise and padded out, 'Bonejangles' is really intelligence-insultingly dumb and borderline incoherent with confused transitions, too much jumping about and a lot made unclear. The direction shows very little, if any, competence. Really hated the characters, not because they were sketchily developed or cliched (they were but what comes next bothered me more) but because they were really annoying and offensive. Like other viewers, have not been this offended by this many stereotypes in a long time, and all the actors overact painfully with really forced character interaction.

Summarising, awful. 1/10

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 July 2017 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Labyrinth Films, Mystery Library Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Color:

Color