Tales from the Hood (1995)

- written August 2004



    



          Three drug-dealing youths are at a funeral home looking to pick up a stash of drugs. Instead of getting right down to business, Simms entertains the three men with some rather grisly stories.

          1) "Rogue Cop Revelation" - Three white, racist cops murder a black politician; all the while a black police officer is watching the entire thing. The black officer is then told that if he opens his mouth, he will join the politician. A year later, the politician from beyond the grave contacts the cops who killed him.

          2) "Boys Do Get Bruised" - A new boy at a school shows up the first day with a bunch of bruises on his arm. The boy tells the teacher he got the bruises from the "monster" that lives in his house.

          3) "KKK Comeuppance" - a former Ku Klux Klansman turned politician moves into a mansion that was once the sight of a horrible slave massacre that occurred around the end of the Civil War. There is a lot of distrust towards him, because of his shady history. He is told by many of the protesters that a bunch of voodoo dolls, which are inhabited by the souls of the murdered slaves, are still on the mansion grounds. The politician shrugs all of this off as just local superstition, until his assistant (who might I add is black) dies mysteriously. Soon it becomes clear that the politician is not alone in his brand new house.

          4) "Hard Core Convert" - A gangster is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Some years after being sent to prison, he's offered a chance to be released, if he agrees to be a participant in a brand new experiment.


          Overall: My first thought when seeing this anthology was how cheesy and useless this was gonna be. Similar to the comic strip writer of the "The Boondocks," I was ready to truly rip this movie. However it was surprisingly decent. Some nice ideas in this movie and although it really does nothing to reduce racist stereotypes, however it does use them to its advantage. The final story is probably the best and there is some real brains used in constructing this story. Overall it’s a lot better than expected.









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