Awful. Lazy. Incompetent. Failure. Horrendous. Insulting. Lackadaisical. Guano. Excrement. Depressing. Talentless. Baffling. Draining. Lousy. Anti-life. Joyless. Avoid. Hopeless. Unprofessional. Worthless. I'd-almost-rather-watch-Uwe-Boll-filmography-kind-of-film.In a word, bad!Skeleton Man is what happens when you give money to people that have no idea how films, or even more broadly, stories function. It has absolutely no creativity, talent or skill behind it. And what's even worse, it's not even that funny in its incompetence. Often you can at least laugh at how utterly the film fails, but in this case you just simply sit there, bored out of your skull, asking the question: "Why?"Where to even begin. First of all, the props. The villain, supposedly an undead Indian warrior spirit, who actually looks more like a fourteen-year-old fanboy cosplaying as Skeletor from He-Man. Seriously, I could buy a more convincing skull mask from any carnival store in existence. The same thing with the cape, which is so shiny, smooth and plasticy that you could use it as a mirror. Made even more baffling by the fact that in about half of the scenes they use a far superior cape. Did they simply decide not to re-shoot the scenes with the hilariously wrong cape after the right one had arrived?Secondly, the actors and the characters are some of the worst I've ever seen. They're either needlessly pampering to the male demographic, utterly avoid of any personality or usually both. Worst is the villain, who has no presence, character or even really backstory. I've seen kittens covered in soap bubbles that are more frightening than he is.This film should not exist. It is an insult to every other film, nay, every other story in existence. Please, do the world a favour and burn any copy you come across.

The B movie studio Nu Image has made some good direct to video movies over the years. Unfortunately, "Skeleton Man" is not one of them. In fact, I think that this could be the worst effort to date that's come out of the company. For starters, it looks really cheap. Everything about the movie looks real tacky, especially the title monster, which looks like it was put together from Halloween product offered at a dollar store. The characters are just as unengaging - there is precious little development done with these people. They are simply bait for the monster. The movie is also badly directed. It's slow and endless, and the, ahem, horror sequences have absolutely no shocks or even serviceable splatter. But I think the worst thing about the movie is that there is NO real explanation for why the title figure has appeared and why it's doing what it's doing. Does it have to do with the archaeological dig mentioned in the first scene? Does it have to do with the Native American the team finds in the woods at one point? It's never made clear. This movie is junk in every way you can think of. If it had been unintentionally funny, there might have been a reason to see it, but this is one bad movie that's so bad it's bad.

I'm a fan of what might be called lesser horror movies. Generally I review them when I believe that other reviewers have been unjust to them. However, although I enjoyed Skeleton Man, it has some problems. The biggest one is that its main episode, involving the skeleton man's inconsiderate treatment of the eight special forces members, is accompanied by briefer "supporting" episodes that just don't support what's going on in the main one. For instance, how does a rather nasty Native American find black garbage bags to wear, and also find an invulnerable horse? Another is that these experienced military people discover fairly soon that the skeleton man is invulnerable to bullets, yet keep firing at him/it. Firing so much and so often that I'm surprised that they could possibly have packed in all that ammo. Finally, what possible successful effect could the fiery conclusion have had?That said, some of the we-have-been-warned Violence scenes are excellent, the mountain scenery is lovely, and enough gore is spilled to fertilize these woods for some time to come. The explosions are generally fine, and … despite what some reviews have written … the acting was acceptable

WARNING! WARNING! While I disliked this film greatly, and I cannot see many people liking it, (except for creepy male teenagers) I get angry when people expect something from SCI-Fi channel, It is a bloody made-for-t.v. movie staring low-B actors! Get real people, go in expecting a bad movie, receive it, and then make a verdict. Do not watch it (skeleton man in particular) if you are highly opinionated! Now for the real review! This movie is quite pathetic, and it adds it self to the festering tripe lining the squishy smelly stomach of the Sci-fi channel. The acting is horrible, and the costumes/make-up are terrible. For example, the Garbage-bag cloak of the dead warrior? Ach, it made the actor look like a stick wrapped in a blanket. It over-sized him by about 3-1, and so, for an example of how big it was, the skull of the thing had an over-sized hood around it, that stood up by itself somehow, making the skull, look like a pea in a plastic bag. Also, there seemed to be a lot of unnecessary deaths. Watch it and see for yourself...Muahahahaa