The Crow (1994)

A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.

Director:

Alex Proyas

Writers:

James O'Barr (comic book series and comic strip), David J. Schow (screenplay)

Stars:

Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis

3 wins & 6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Brandon Lee	...	Eric
Rochelle Davis	...	Sarah
Ernie Hudson	...	Albrecht
Michael Wincott	...	Top Dollar
Bai Ling	...	Myca
Sofia Shinas	...	Shelly
Anna Levine	...	Darla (as Anna Thomson)
David Patrick Kelly	...	T-Bird
Angel David	...	Skank
Laurence Mason	...	Tin Tin
Michael Massee	...	Funboy
Tony Todd	...	Grange
Jon Polito	...	Gideon
Bill Raymond	...	Mickey
Marco Rodríguez	...	Torres

Storyline

A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.

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Plot Keywords:

back from the dead | vigilante | crime boss | gothic | star died during filming | 

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Taglines:

It Can't Rain All The Time.

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for a great amount of strong violence and language, and for drug use and some sexuality

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 May 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Crow

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$23,000,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$50,693,162

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$94,000,000

Company Credits

Production Co:

Crowvision Inc., Edward R. Pressman Film, Entertainment Media Investment Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min 98 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby DTS Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

(at around 1h 27 mins) For a scene in which the crow attacks Myca, Lance Anderson built a mechanical bird to do the attacking; it had separate controls for the wings and the claws.

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Goofs

(at around 1h 1 min) When the detective and the cop are arguing about the discovery of a man melted to his blown up car, right after Draven sends the burning car into the river, the detective's shoulder holster changes from brown to black-strapped halfway through the scene.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Sarah: [voiceover] People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

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Crazy Credits

For Brandon and Eliza

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Alternate Versions

In some cuts of the film, Eric's band is called "The Hangman's Joke", but in other cuts it's called "The Hangman's Trio."

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Connections

Referenced in Hellbent (2004)

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Soundtracks

AFTER THE FLESH
Performed by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Courtesy of Interscope Records
Written by Marston Daley (as Buzz McCoy) and Frank Nardiello (as Groovie Mann)
Produced by Marston Daley (as Buzz McCoy)
©1993 EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. obo Itself and Pill Krazed Music/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corporation/Pressmancherryblossom (BMI)

User Reviews

the best Gothic comic book movie ever made

This movie is fantastic. plain and simple. Brandon Lee delivers his lines to the point they were instantly memorable after seeing the film only once. The casting of both Michael Wincott and Tony Todd was inspired as these two guys have two of the most instantly recognisable voices in the movie industry. If i could ever be a movie or a lead in a film this would be it. I was initially put off the idea of the movie as i am a big fan of the graphic novel and there was an awful lot of hype around this film on its release. this proved to be my loss as i have only seen the film on the small screen. however i now have the 2 disc special edition DVD and watched it 3 times in succession the day i bought it and must have watched it at least 100 times since. my own personal opinion is that a movie should suspend disbelief, capture the imagination which this does in spades. it is truly a film that you can lose a couple of hours watching and at the end feel like you have spent a worthwhile couple of hours. would recommend this to anybody.