Tales From the Hood

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Han R Apr 12, 2018 Brillant Script and Brilliant storiea that was Get Out prequel.

Theodore L Mar 12, 2018 What a great movie! I went in thinking this was going to be crap, but I was waaaaay wrong! I had a great time and I think everyone should watch it. See more

Han W Feb 19, 2018 Jordan Peele is supposedly resurrecting The Twilight Zone to be a movie or tv series. I think he should totally do a sequel (or tv spinoff) to this lol! Welcome to My Mortuary (the wraparound story) ***1/2 Rogue Cop Revelation ** Boys Do Get Bruised * KKK Comeuppance *** Hard-Core Convert ***1/2 See more

Poe M Jun 1, 2017 Definitely more satisfying with it's scares and-surprisingly, it's social commentary-than you might expect. Like any good horror anthology, we have an eccentric teller of our tales: Mr. Simms, the director of a funeral home in South Central LA where 3 hoods have dropped by to score some drugs. Simms is interested in introducing them to the many types of people unfortunate enough to become his customers, and tell the stories of how they came to be cold in a coffin. And thus we hear 4 yarns detailing how police brutality and corruption, child abuse, racism, and a desperate need to adhere to the hardcore gangsta lifestyle can all lead some unfortunate souls to an early grave. (And one story hits too close to home for the 3 drug buyers!) The film is definitely inspired by the film version of "Tales From The Crypt" in it's framework and the TV version in it's spirit and execution. There's some great social commentary here, but you never feel like you're being preached at or clubbed over the head. (No surprise Spike Lee helped produce it.) For fans of horror or hip hop cinema (killer soundtrack, in more ways than one), this is a coffin lid you'll want to pop open. See more

Hermione S May 20, 2017 I don't remember this film being much of a hit or being a film anyone took much notice of when it first came out, but I think if it had it come out now it would have garnered more attention. The film is essentially a blaxploitation versions of Tales form the Crypt, telling several horror short stories but with a racially provocative twists. Although I haven't seen the recent horror film "Get Out" it sounds very similar to this one in that it is a well made horror film at it's core, but also features an interesting not so subtle subtext about race, racism, and race relations. Clarence Williams III takes on the Cryptkeeper role as a creepy funeral director who tells three drug dealers he's trapped in his place of business four scary stories, each with a twist. The best two come in the middle of the film, one about a boy who tells a teacher about a monster who lives in his home, which features an uncharacteristically dark role for David Alan Grier, and another story about a racist southern politician, Corbin Bernsen, who gets his comeuppance by a small army of dolls possessed by the spirits of slaves killed on the plantation where he's now set up office. I probably liked the latter best from my obsession with little things attacking bigger things (i.e. Puppet Master, Gremlins, Troll, Ghoulies, Critters, etc.). But as I said earlier, this film came out at a time when films about race were supposed to be high minded ventures like "Do the Right Thing," "Higher Learning" or "Menace II Society," and were not supposed to be exploitative genre films, so I think this film was consequentially not taken very seriously, eventhough it was produced by Spike Lee. Overall, this isn't a horror classic or even a particularly insightful film about race, but it is one that I think deserves more respect than it's gotten. Christopher Young also provides the film a fine eerie score. See more

George S Jan 5, 2016 Clarence Williams is great as the Horror host, through this effective and funny anthology. Not only works as a horror film, but peppers in some really social issues without beating you over the head with it. See more

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