I read the reviews that called this film "Tales From The Crypt" set in the ghetto. It's more like a bunch of characatures and stereotypes put to motion picture.
In the opening scene, Snoop Dogg (playing the role of either the devil, or some demon pimp) tells us that the Hood Of Horror is even too much for the "toughest OG's" or something like that, but the only scary thing about the film is that I paid money to rent it.
The first tale features a girl out tagging who looks like she was living in North Hollywood rather than "the hood". She runs across some tough OG's... tough if you live in Mayberry. The gang of three (a latino, a brotha, and a white boy) made me laugh out loud. None of them look too tough. The latino looks the closest to convincing, but I couldn't help but picture the character not having boy bands in his CD collection. The brotha looked too "quarterback jock" to come off as a ghetto thug, and the white boy couldn't wash Eminem's boxer shorts.
Anyway, the girl is out tagging... she gets caught tagging over the gansta's wall, and runs for her life after getting threatened at gunpoint. she runs into Danny Trejo in bad makeup. He gives her a irezumi style tattoo against her will and tells her she now has a gift. She then gets to witness the gangsta's who were chasing her just moments before suffer untimely deaths... The most laughable being the 40 oz. through the mouth. Give me a break. I almost split a rib at that one.. Then as soon as they are death, their corpse/ghosts come back to life and kill her. That is, after Danny Trejo in bad makeup takes her tattoo away for tagging over their names after they die.
The second tale is the most offensive and ridiculous. Its about a southern white couple who come to the hood. He is a textbook stereotype "tex", and his bubbly white bimbo wife is about the most annoying creature I have seen on film in a while. The story is that they (the couple) are moving into a housing unit that his "daddy" left him in his will. Daddy had been a COLONEL in the US ARMY, and had presided over an all-black unit. His dad supposedly was good to the men, and good to others, but yet his son came up a smack-talking racist. I know that it can happen, but I had a tough time seeing such an ignorant stereotypical character be the product of a Colonel in the US ARMY. Sorry.
Anyway, the dialog becomes so predictable and hokey that it actually made me a tid-bit uneasy. And the actual unfolding of the story (although a cool idea: teaching the young racist some honor and respect by torturing him and his wife to death) winds up being ruined by crappy writing and a HORRIBLY awful CGI climax. A almost didn't watch the last installment, but I am glad I did because it was ironically the ONLY one that is tolerable.
It's about a hip-hop duo that disbands because one of them dies. Only, the survivor is plagued by not only a strange woman (Lin Shaye)and the ghost of his dead "partner", but by the notion that OTHERS know what his role had been in the mysterious murder. It's not enough to save the film from ridiculousness, but the third story IS the closest thing to an episode of "Tales From The Crypt" or "Tales From The Darkside" that this film offers.
Love ya Snoop, but next time, make a hood movie that comes off with some street cred. -JB
In the opening scene, Snoop Dogg (playing the role of either the devil, or some demon pimp) tells us that the Hood Of Horror is even too much for the "toughest OG's" or something like that, but the only scary thing about the film is that I paid money to rent it.
The first tale features a girl out tagging who looks like she was living in North Hollywood rather than "the hood". She runs across some tough OG's... tough if you live in Mayberry. The gang of three (a latino, a brotha, and a white boy) made me laugh out loud. None of them look too tough. The latino looks the closest to convincing, but I couldn't help but picture the character not having boy bands in his CD collection. The brotha looked too "quarterback jock" to come off as a ghetto thug, and the white boy couldn't wash Eminem's boxer shorts.
Anyway, the girl is out tagging... she gets caught tagging over the gansta's wall, and runs for her life after getting threatened at gunpoint. she runs into Danny Trejo in bad makeup. He gives her a irezumi style tattoo against her will and tells her she now has a gift. She then gets to witness the gangsta's who were chasing her just moments before suffer untimely deaths... The most laughable being the 40 oz. through the mouth. Give me a break. I almost split a rib at that one.. Then as soon as they are death, their corpse/ghosts come back to life and kill her. That is, after Danny Trejo in bad makeup takes her tattoo away for tagging over their names after they die.
The second tale is the most offensive and ridiculous. Its about a southern white couple who come to the hood. He is a textbook stereotype "tex", and his bubbly white bimbo wife is about the most annoying creature I have seen on film in a while. The story is that they (the couple) are moving into a housing unit that his "daddy" left him in his will. Daddy had been a COLONEL in the US ARMY, and had presided over an all-black unit. His dad supposedly was good to the men, and good to others, but yet his son came up a smack-talking racist. I know that it can happen, but I had a tough time seeing such an ignorant stereotypical character be the product of a Colonel in the US ARMY. Sorry.
Anyway, the dialog becomes so predictable and hokey that it actually made me a tid-bit uneasy. And the actual unfolding of the story (although a cool idea: teaching the young racist some honor and respect by torturing him and his wife to death) winds up being ruined by crappy writing and a HORRIBLY awful CGI climax. A almost didn't watch the last installment, but I am glad I did because it was ironically the ONLY one that is tolerable.
It's about a hip-hop duo that disbands because one of them dies. Only, the survivor is plagued by not only a strange woman (Lin Shaye)and the ghost of his dead "partner", but by the notion that OTHERS know what his role had been in the mysterious murder. It's not enough to save the film from ridiculousness, but the third story IS the closest thing to an episode of "Tales From The Crypt" or "Tales From The Darkside" that this film offers.
Love ya Snoop, but next time, make a hood movie that comes off with some street cred. -JB