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Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006)
Topic Started: Jul 15 2015, 05:34 PM (208 Views)
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Crossed over into the other side, a man is told to warn others like him to see the error of their past, and recounts three stories which showcase their chance at redemption or end up in the Hood of Horror.

What did everyone think of this one?
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Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

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The Good Stor(ies): Crossed Over-Living in the hood, an aspiring artist tackles with a group of local thugs over her uplifting graffiti in their neighborhood. Taken in by a homeless derelict after a conflict, she finds herself able to extract supernatural vengeance on those when she crosses out their names. The more she resorts to physical acts of violence, the more she gets corrupted by what she's doing, and soon becomes a target for those who she targeted. Overall, this was an entertaining and really enjoyable segment. The gore in this one is one of the best features, as the kills are plain messy. There's a beer bottle breaking open the back of the head and splattering the wall behind them, a phone cord wrapped around the neck and ripping the throat out, a messy gunshot wound and a fantastic kill with a soda bottle, and all have a ton of bloodshed. Along with the great demon make-up, this is a great area. The plot isn't bad, being a great range of redemption and corruption handled nicely, and along with a good pace, makes this one a great opener.

The Scumlord-Arriving at an apartment building, a man and his wife find that his deceased father left it to them if they lived in it for a year. After meeting the tenets, they decide to upswing the low-rent district to their freewheeling lifestyle, which doesn't sit well with them. After one demand too many leads to a wrongful death, they rise up against the couple for their disrespectful ways. This one wasn't that bad and had some good parts to it. This one does have a great way of settling the revenge here as necessary, doing everything that's required to make it something that is looked forward to. The actions here set-up the revenge taken out later and is done just well, making the revenge as well as the execution of the actions altogether. That, though, points out the segment's lone flaw, in that it's entirely too predictable. Nearly everyone will have seen this one's resolution coming a mile away since this one's a really clichéd set-up. It's still highly watchable, though.

Rapsody Askew-Getting a record contract, a wannabe rapper uses it to escape the streets and ends up taking the world by storm with his music. Preparing for a concert, he parties with his posse backstage before getting a warning from the building's supervisor about the party and find himself all alone. Suddenly forced to own up to his past with his partner who he set-up in order to capitalize on his death to get famous, and must soon live up to the wronged deeds of his past. This was a really good and enjoyable segment. That it takes a great spin on the redemption revenge angle is fantastic, as the build-up to it throw the use of videos is pretty novel, and for it to be done in a dressing room allows for some really nice scenes. What's also great is the macabre twist it pulls out with the double turn at the end and using it to make the final segment great. The impressive camera-work during the sequence to highlight the trippy visuals going on is another big plus, as is the few gore effects on display. In short, this was a good segment.

The Bad Stor(ies): While not entirely bad, the wraparound sketches are hit-or-miss. The prologue is fine is a little nonsensical, but it at least gives a decent back-story to the protagonist. The in-films ones are better, with the animation allowing for some more graphic images than conventions would allow and overall making them quite entertaining. It's simply the fact that they carry on the story's ending in animation rather than the other way around, and this somewhat knocks it down, along with the minor flaws within the individual stories.
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/
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I thought it was pretty bad. :P

The graffitti story was the best one


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Well, why was that? A little more, man, let's talk about this.
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/
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Just everything about it was pretty lame in my opinion, aside from the graffiti story. The writing, the acting etc. It's just not for me. I do remember some decent gore though if I'm not mistaken.


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THIS WAS AWESOME! All three segments were a lot of fun (the second one was my favorite). The cast was also fantastic. Daniella Alonso, Danny Trejo, Anson Mount, Lin Shaye, Snoop Dogg, Diamond Dallas Page, Jason Alexander, and more - holy crap!

It's basically Tales From The Crypt meets Tales From The Hood (and that movie isn't as good as this one imo). I want another anthology like this. It was nice that not every segment was about racism. Tales From The Hood, from what I remember, had racism play a huge role in literally all of its segments. While I appreciate that being an element and it's certainly great that some horror films address that, I feel like that should've touched upon other themes as well. THIS managed to do so, featuring stories about corruption/vengeance, greed, racism (the second segment which had the most satisfying payoff) and more. Like Tales From The Hood, it did so in a fun and interesting manner.

I'll definitely be giving this another watch sometime, probably alongside Tales From The Hood so I can refresh my memory of that one and see if I like it more (though I still doubt I'll love it quite as much as this one :P).

5.5/10 quality, 9/10 entertainment
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I used to pass by this on rental shelves at Blockbuster back when I was in high school, yet I never saw it despite my love of Snoop Dogg.
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Watch it now! (goo)
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