Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen

Revenge/horror motif played out again and again and again, but this time with racial implications. Three drug-dealing thugs look for a stash in a funeral parlor and get the grand tour from Mr. Simms, ...( read more  read more... )the truly creepy mortician. As they pass the open caskets, Simms relates gruesome stories about the occupants' deaths to the increasingly restless young men. Each one of them falls to the vengeance of the supernatural theme, and it gets truly old. Nothing original is introduced, except that most of the stories take place in an urban setting. Produced by Spike Lee in an attempt to prove that bad horror doesn't discriminate, either. --Keith Simanton

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R, 98 min.

Directed by: Rusty Cundieff

Release Date: May 24, 1995

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DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001

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  • October 4, 2009
    I'm not going to add much, since most has been said already. I just wanted to state that I really enjoyed this movie. It not only pays a good homage to the classic EC comics (or at least the adapted early movie versions or series) but it manages to portray profound messages in a ...( read more)very powerful manner. The effects are pretty good as well and there's some nice gore so horror fans should be satisfied. I think that it's really one of the few movies that successfully combine horror and moral.

    The soundtrack is also very good - This movie was made in 95' - a time where hip hop in my opinion had reached it's highest point. So it's definitely worth a look!

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  • July 14, 2007
    A great anthology of African American based horror tales.

    The Framing Story was a group of drug dealers visiting a funeral home and getting the stories before their drugs.

    #1 - A tale of white police officers killing an innocent black man, and then then getting it back good...( read more) and gorey.

    #2 - A great story about a teacher visiting the parents of a boy who is drawing pictures of a monster. A surprising tale.

    #3 - A governor is haunted by little slave dolls. Creepy as heck.

    #4 - A boy in prison undergoes an experimental new treatment. Cool and eye-opening.

    It's a great horror flick, with lots of scary scenes.

    I really liked the ending at the funeral parlor.
  • May 29, 2008
    Alright.
  • August 17, 2009
    i used to watch this movie all the time as a teen i couldnt get enough of it
  • February 16, 2009
    Whoever wrote the plot summary on here is a very close minded individual. Combining three things I like a lot: Anthologies, Horror, and black people. There's a reason why there's been nothing like this before and after it came out: everyone stopped trying. The mid 90's were a goo...( read more)d time for horror films and this is probably one of the best if not THE best to come out then (next to, in front of or behind 'From Dusk til Dawn'?) It also had the one element most important to a horror film: It was scary but more favorably each story is rich with social commentary from police brutality, child abuse and racism. Somehow it all fuses together quite nicely and leaves disturbing images in your head.
  • December 9, 2008
    in many ways this movie probly got such a high rating from me cause i enjoyed watching it so much when it first came out on vhs
  • August 20, 2008
    this is a very good movie
  • August 17, 2008
    The director knew what he was doing making this movie and he also made that movie Sprung that was also good
  • July 7, 2008
    this is such a gd horror film i love it its like tales from the cyrpt but tales from the hood they tell stories there gd stroies and some scary ones
  • July 7, 2008
    it a really gd moive if u like horror but i luv it=]

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