Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan (Pierce Brosnan)'s wife Jo (Annabeth Gish) gets run over in the street. He finds a pregnancy test on her and assumes that she cheated on him since he's infertile. Marty (Jason Priestley) is his literary agent. He is haunted by nightmares of a girl at his summer home on Dark Score Lake, Maine. He goes to stay at the cabin in the wood which had been renovated by his wife. He saves Kyra Devore from getting run over and befriends her mother Mattie (Melissa George). Mattie is in a custody battle with her wealthy father-in-law Max Devore after she killed her husband as he tried to drown Kyra. Mike has visions of a 1930s jazz singer Sara Tidwell.Many Stephen King stories have been translated onto the screen. This is not the worst but definitely not that good. This could be a good ghost story but it needs to be compressed. Pierce Brosnan is required to fill a lot of space by himself. It does a lot of creepy but nothing actually scary.

There isn't anything as unimaginative, contrived and dumb as supernatural, ghost films, stories and books.It is always the same thing, with a crescendo of apparitions and revelations and scare until the grand finale which usually consists of a dumb twist, a a half-baked conclusion, something that anyone with a half a brain could've guessed at the beginning of the ordeal Some of them area fun to watch, others like this pathetic bag of manure is an ordeal, painful, to watch.Acting is awful, the story is dumb, the mystery non-existent and the scares are pretty scarce.Stephen King as always been an overrated writer, it shows on film adaptations of his books.Go out for a walk, it is a better use of your time

I love Stephen King novels, and I love the miniseries productions of his work (particularly SALEM'S LOT and IT). BAG OF BONES is the latest addition to the list, a 2011 production which sees Pierce Brosnan playing a thinly-veiled version of the author himself uncovering ghosts and sinister secrets in a rural town.So far so Stephen King, you might think, and this is very much par for the course when it comes to this type of stuff. Director Mick Garris tries to jazz things up with snappy editing and cross-cutting, but when it comes to the 'horror' it's the same old scare tactics: loud noises, sudden movement, a creepy pair of villains. The usual stuff.The production isn't all bad, and I did find that the three hours zipped past as I watched; I wasn't bored, that's for sure. Brosnan gives one of his dependable everyman type performances (and seems to be wearing that same old blue shirt from DANTE'S PEAK) although Melissa George is slightly wasted in a small role. Really, this is the Brosnan show, with him going all Bruce Campbell as he's haunted in his lakeside cabin.There are a few gory flourishes here and there to keep things moving, and I liked the eventual unravelling of the back story which was highly effective. But for every point BAG OF BONES scores it loses one by doing something silly - such as the excruciatingly twee final scene involving some friendly spirits.

I haven't read the book, but i know Stephen King is a brilliant writer so I watched the film. I wasn't disappointed. I have to say, Melissa Georges character was extremely annoying! She was all over Pierce like a bad rash, that was the worse bit of the film. The plot, well, its a movie not real life! There were some jumpy bits, but overall not too scary. Its hard to believe that Pierces character would get away with certain deeds in the film, but obviously its not real life, so he does. I thought the little girl was a great actress. A very good performance by her. Pierce was very good too. I did find the rape scene very uncomfortable, but then i always find those sort of scenes terrible.