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Name: Tales From the Hood
Released: 1995-5-24
Cast: Corbin Bernsen, Lamont Bentley, De'aundre Bonds, Rosalind Cash, Rusty Cundieff

Tales From the Hood

R
1h 37m
1995

58%

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It's chill or be chilled in this edgy horror anthology from Oscar®-nominated producer Spike Lee. The nightmare begins for three drug-dealing friends as an eerie mortician (Clarence Williams III, Half Baked) leads them on a tour of his inner-city funeral home. In a series of four vignettes, he tells them cautionary stories about corrupt cops, a young boy with mysterious bruises, a racist Southern Senator (Corbin Bernsen, TV’s "LA Law"), and a homicidal psychopath who receives a chance at redemption. Ferocious, frightening, and sometimes funny, Tales from the Hood delivers a distinctive terror that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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58%

Reviews

Philadelphia Daily News

Anderson Jones

[Director Rusty Cundieff] manages to amuse more often than horrify. This tends to make his "Tales" more ready for prime time than the big screen, but more entertaining than a silly haunted house ride at a summer carnival.

It ingeniously employs the multi-saga format popularized by the likes of Dead of Night and Tales from the Crypt as a springboard for an examination of real problems facing African-American communities.

In each macabre tale, Cundieff reconsiders the past through a new method of evaluation and representation, using grim horror stories to capture a glimpse of modern and historical reality.

Tales from the Hood isn't just unique in its subject matter, but also in that it's an auteur-led horror anthology with something to say.

If Get Out is about the way racism now hides behind America's grinning, faux-liberal facade, Tales is about how poverty and ignorance are causing young black men and women to rage war against themselves.

January 9, 2018

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