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24 May 1995 (USA) moreTagline:
Where nightmares and reality meet on the street morePlot:
A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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Mediocre horror anthology film with one excellent tale moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Clarence Williams III | ... | Mr. Simms | |
| Joe Torry | ... | Stack | |
| De'aundre Bonds | ... | Ball | |
| Samuel Monroe Jr. | ... | Bulldog | |
| Wings Hauser | ... | Strom | |
| Tom Wright | ... | Martin Moorehouse | |
| Anthony Griffith | ... | Clarence | |
| Michael Massee | ... | Newton | |
| Duane Whitaker | ... | Billy | |
| David Alan Grier | ... | Carl | |
| Brandon Hammond | ... | Walter | |
| Rusty Cundieff | ... | Richard | |
| Paula Jai Parker | ... | Sissy | |
| Corbin Bernsen | ... | Duke Metger | |
| Roger Guenveur Smith | ... | Rhodie |
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Rated R for graphic brutal violence and strong language.Parents Guide:
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAFun Stuff
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the tale of the crooked cops, the murdered man getting revenge is displayed earlier on in the Police Database as "Martin Ezekell Moorehouse", however, later on, his grave reads "Martin Ezekiel Moorehouse." moreQuotes:
Dr. Cushing: But you are responsible for the lives you've taken... for the dreams you've turned into nightmares. moreSoundtrack:
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Tales From the Hood, another horror anthology film dripping with EC comics-style ghoulishness, strings together four stories told by a wild-haired, macabre funeral director (Clarence Williams III) to a trio of gangbangers seeking their missing drug stash in a mortuary. Virtually all of the tales are familiar -- walking corpses and voodoo dolls are staples of the format -- but director Rusty Cundieff makes every effort to inject the proceedings with social morality. Child abuse, racism, and police brutality each get a pretty heavy-handed treatment, but the last story, involving a voluntary "behavior modification" technique for an unrepentant killer (ala A Clockwork Orange) explodes off the screen. In the film's most powerful sequence, Cundieff serves up a quickly cut montage of unsettling images culled from a number of state historical archives depicting vicious, stomach-churning lynchings meant to deter the rapacious young killer from wanting to harm any more people. It's potent stuff, and makes one wish the rest of the film had this kind of intensity.