Knucklebones— My take on the movie with spoilers!
PLOT SUMMARY: In order to cheer up her suicidal friend, Samantha takes Neesa to an abandoned factory with three of their friends to play a dangerous game of Knucklebones.
KNUCKLEBONES Movie Plot
Years ago, when the whole world was at war, one army came up with a unique way to destroy their enemies– summon an unstoppable demon.
Of course the experiment goes horribly wrong and the demon attacks its summoners.
A few years later, we see a boy playing in the basement of a hospital just as a doctor suddenly falls and pleads for help upstairs. We hear her bones crack. In the next scene, the boy comes out of his hiding place and is shocked to see so many bodies lying about.
Again, a few years go by and we are brought to the present.
A young woman is happily bragging to anyone who cares to hear her at the fair that she is engaged.
Her happiness is shortlived when her fiance tells her the very next minute that he "wants to talk".
Unable to take this terrible turn of events, she tries to commit suicide.
She is found in time and at the hospital, her best friend Samantha promises Neesa that she will always be there for her.
Her plan to cheer up her friend: take her to an abandoned factory along with three of their friends.
They all reach the factory to hang about in and come across a board game that they instantly decide to play even though a parchment inside states that it will summon a demon. The die is made up of bones.
Clearly, this seems eerie and black magic stuff.
The delinquents decide to play anyway. Yay! Fun! Let's summon an unstoppable killing demon.
As soon as the first round is complete, a girl, whose name you don't need to learn, has her bones fractured as Knucklebones uses her to enter the world.
The others run in separate directions, but you know not all of them will survive except for Neesa. Because in every slasher horror movie, the final girl always survives and since she didn't die in the first scene, she isn't going to now.
The writer must have realized that the movie was going to be to short since there are only five characters, so a team of scavengers are brought in who go into the factory to steal copper wiring.
Okay, good, stick to the mission, you would think.
But no, to insert unnecessary titillation, two of the characters engage in an intimate scene whole only one of them drills for copper.
Knucklebones is on a rampage and uses gruesome techniques to finish of the two while they are going at it in front of their friend.
In a matter of five minutes, all of them are sliced. Copious amounts of blood is spilled everywhere.
As the remaining try to find a way out, they meet a man who has been hiding away in the factory for years.
He was the boy whose mother was a doctor. He tells them he managed to banish Knucklebones by performing a reverse ritual using the die made of bones.
His ingenious plan to make sure no one got to the game was hiding it behind a wall of a collapsing building and then living there so that no one got to it. Since these kids got to it, the guy clearly didn't do a good job at being caretaker.
He and the remaining guy are killed.
KNUCKLEBONES Ending Explained with Spoilers!
The die is destroyed by Knucklebones but Neesa comes up with a plan to use the monster's bones as die.
She manages to decapitate his hand and successfully perform tye ritual.
Later, Samantha is at home and we see Neesa's fiance with her. More originality here (sarcasm).
But uh oh, Knucklebones is back and wastes no time in slicing the two. How did he get here?
During all the chaos, Neesa finds Samantha's phone and reads her messages. When she discovers her friend betrayed her, she summons Knucklebones to destroy her. And why does Knucklebones help her? Because he takes a liking to Neesa after she tried to take her life. And it is believed that those who commit suicide belong in hell.
So, instead of being an unstoppable killing machine, Knucklebones is now Neesa's minion.
The end.
This movie is perfect for those looking for a good laugh. Forget comedy shows, watch this instead.
Scare scale: 2/5
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