I am a sucker for anthologies and will watch just about any one (except for the sacrilegious CREEPSHOW 3). This one, which got a brief theatrical release last fall, has to be one of the worst. Snoop Dogg is the Cribkeeper and he tells us three stories of ghetto horror. Unfortunately, all three stories are so predictable and, most offensively, boring. The first one has a girl who gets the power to kill with her spray paint from the Devil (Danny Trejo). The second one is a spoiled son who is forced to live with his dead dad's Vietnam vet platoon (including Ernie Hudson) in order to gain his inheritance. And the final story has a rapper selling his soul to make it big. Ugh. This pales in comparison to Rusty Cundiff's TALES FROM THE HOOD (1995) and is strictly amateur hour with the acting and stories. The only positives are the gory deaths and make-up effects. The strangest thing about the entire film is that it is directed by Stacy Title, who made the well received comedy-drama THE LAST SUPPER (1995).
Review of Hood of Horror
