Bag of Bones (TV)
| release date | December 12 2011 |
| studio | A&E |
| director | Mick Garris |
| writer | Mick Garris |
| starring | Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George, Annabeth Gish, Anika Noni Jones, Matt Frewer, Jason Priestly |
| site | aetv.com/bag-of-bones |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
8 Comments
This should have been so much better! His wife looked like she was missing something by not looking both ways when she crossed the street in the beginning and when he was in the town it was as if he didn’t know anything about her. Also, they should have spent more time on the curse in the town and the murders.
They probably should have added a day or two to the mini-series.
i give it a 7 because the end freaked me out i was chanting get the kid out of the tub when he comes back home and the crazy chick comes out from behind the door but the kid is still in the tub the same tub the creepy recently dead guy was in eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww
The history is good, but in terms of horror, it’s very poor. The book deserves more.
Not as good as I thought it was gonna be. Turned out to be really boring and not much was going on in the movie. Just skip over another mediocre T.V. movie.
This skillful adaptation is not terrifying. However, I don’t believe that Stephen King meant the story to be terrifying.
I’ve never followed Pierce Brosnan and I’ve seen very few of his performances. However, he does a more-than-credible job of playing Mike Noonan. King’s story is about coping with the grief of losing the person you love. It’s about how it affects the surviving partner as much as it’s about scaring the reader. Brosnan does a good job of portraying Noonan’s grief. Furthermore, the deposition scene with Devore shows how Brosnan’s years of playing 007 with unflappability in threatening situations have paid off.
Brosnan is not quite so convincing at portraying fear, but it’s a minor complaint. Bag of Bones reminds us again of King’s greatest strength and, perhaps, the key to his phenomenal success. He creates characters that are believable and puts them in situations to which the audience can easily relate.
This quality connects Bag of Bones with one of the greatest ghost stories ever written: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. King shows that the connection is no accident in the very first scene in the movie. The shocks do eventually come in the last half-hour of the movie. The portrayals of Devore and especially his wife are over-the-top and seem slightly out of place. However, this is generally a fine adaptation of Stephen King’s book.