• FILM    Rated R, 98 min. Directed by Ernest Dickerson.
Starring Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Bianca Lawson, Ricky Harris,
Clifton Powell, Michael T. Weiss, Khalil Kain, Merwin Mondesir.
REVIEWED By Marc Savlov, Fri., Oct. 26, 2001  Bones Papa's got a
brand new body bag. It's been nine years since Dickerson teamed
with former pal Spike Lee to shoot Malcolm X and in the interim
both men's creative output have been, ah, colorful. Dickerson's
more so than Lee's, for my money, if only because he hasn't
shied away from the sort of B exploitation pics that he loved as
a kid. 1995's Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight was a
mish-mash of goofball gore and spindly-legged undead, but any
film that casts Billy Zane as the devil's right-hoof man and the
great Dick Miller as a horny old geezer named “Uncle Willy” has
got something going for it, and although I panned it at the
time, repeat viewings courtesy of the USA Network have revealed
its lowly charms more fully. Bones, which casts rapper Snoop
Dogg as a Seventies