Tales From the Hood
Directed by Rusty Cundieff
Horror meets the Hood in Rusty Cundieff's now essential tale of three young street thugs who visit the mortuary of the eerily sinister Mr. Simms in search of a lost drug stash. There, the mortician leads them on a nightmarish tour in his inner-city funeral home. From producers Spike Lee ("Do The Right Thing" and "Malcolm X") and Darin Scott ("Menace To Society") comes this supernatural experience that will surely terrify you.
A mortician leads three drug-dealing friends on a nightmarish tour in his inner-city funeral home.
Cast: Clarence Williams, De'aundre Bonds, Tom Wright, Samuel Monroe Jr., Joe Torry
Member Reviews
White folks demonize themselves. Read a book
Great special effects, and performance by Clarence Williams. Black cinema enjoys demonizing white people.
Not a bad film. Entertaining, twist, and some recognizable cast members. Thinks some special effects were good, some not the route I would have went, but Im always sure to remember that politics budgeting, special effects teams, and time are the biggest issues with any project. Still liked it.
Classic!
Like most supernatural anthologies there were problems both big and (in the case of the third story) small. My main issue is I never know what the rules are so when crazy stuff starts happening I don't know how far it can or will go, particularly in the first two tales. The best part of this was having the stories all be centered around themes and issues affecting the Black community. Part I was about the police murdering unarmed Black men, II was about domestic abuse, III about the lingering effects of slavery and racism and IV is about gang violence and the lives it ruins. The stories are all told via a creepy mortician (natch) who ostensibly has drugs in his possession that he's selling to three young dealers but as one might guess from any of the cautionary tales he tells them (or any film along these lines) he has an ulterior motive for them. There was clearly a pretty decent budget as everything was well shot/looked good and the effects were better than average but the acting ranged from pretty ok to not good at all and unfortunately was spread equally across all the stories so there wasn't one that stood out as being exceptionally great but none that escaped the curse of a poor performer unable to sell the more out there moments either. Worth a watch as one of, if not the only Black horror anthology but the execution was a little uneven and the acting as well as script could have used a little work to be great even if the ideas were thought provoking.