1979, Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg) was a local gangster and godfather of the community until he was murdered just as the crack epidemic began. Over 20 years later, a handful of young adults buy Jimmy's building, planning to turn it into a nightclub. Patrick (Khalil Kain) remembers very little about growing up in the area because his father (Clifton Powell) moved them to an affluent suburb and remarried. He doesn't put much stock in local legends, but he is willing to listen to Cynthia (Bianca Lawson), the daughter of a psychic (Pam Grier), mostly because she's really hot. He is therefore not prepared for Jimmy Bones to arise as a revenant and seek his revenge on the people who killed him.
This is admittedly uneven in tone, and I think the filmmaker could have made a stronger point with the social commentary about drug profiteering in predominantly Black communities, but I love a good revenant story. The early 00s slang dates it tremendously so it does feel a bit like a historical object. Whether or not that's a deal-breaker for you, only you know. Pam Grier is A-list and Snoop has moments but Michael T. Weiss and Ricky Harris are pure cheese. Somebody on Rotten Tomatoes compared it to Mario Bava but I think they were just being pretentious snots.
Bones is streaming on Tubi.
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