Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

GL84 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.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.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, drug use, Brief Nudity and a mild sex scene.

preppy-3 Snopp Dogg plays HOH (Hound of Hell) and relates three stories that describes how certain people ended up in hell. Unfortunately the viewer is forced to watch. The first has a headstrong young black girl determined to stop all gang members after witnessing her mother's murder. She gains a mystical power to kill people (don't ask) but the tale has a "tragic" and ridiculously pointless ending. The second has an obnoxious southern boy (well played by Anson Mount) who basically takes advantage of three elderly black war vets who are his tenants. You'll see the ending coming a mile away. The third I had trouble concentrating on. I was so bored I kept falling asleep! Something about a rapper paying for something wrong he did...or something. I really didn't care.The stories are dull--totally predictable and never even remotely scary. The dialogue just consists of actors swearing as much as possible in between dull stretches of exposition (if you can call it that). Also there are animated sequences introducing the film and in between the stories. They're somewhat interesting--but the animation is lousy. Dogg, as our host, is irritating and dull. In fact he's downright boring! He's so bad it makes you appreciate his "singing" more! The actors are, for the most part, not bad (Mount and Ernie Hudson are the best) but they're defeated by boring stories and dialogue. Even the gratuitous blood and gore isn't good! This bombed and disappeared quickly. Hopefully it will be a loooonnnggggg time before Dogg makes another horror film! Bottom of the barrel here. A 1.

Roland E. Zwick The "trilogy of terror" has been a horror movie staple ever since Vincent Price made a name for himself in the 1960's starring in all those Roger Corman adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe short stories. Now, 40 years later, director Stacy Title is attempting to carry on that tradition with "Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror," as dimwitted and cheapjack a B-movie travesty as we've come across in quite some time.Acting as a sort of gangsta' rap version of Elvira, Snoop Dogg serves as the host of the show, introducing us to the three stories, then providing a sermonizing moral as wrap-up when each of them is finished. The first episode, entitled "Crossed Out," tells of a young woman given the power to supernaturally exterminate all the graffiti artists in her neighborhood simply by spray-painting a giant red x through their work. The second entry, "The Scumlord," is a parodic tale of a group of grizzled Vietnam vets who turn the tables on their racist landlord. The third, "Rapsody Askew," is a confused account of a rap star forced to face divine judgment for the error-filled life he's led.Despite the movie's title, there isn't a single suspenseful moment in any of the segments, which, when taken together, feel like a trio of under-conceived and under-nourished rejects from the old "Twilight Zone" series. As the two "name" players in the cast, Billy Dee Williams and Jason Alexander are literally the only things separating "Hood of Horror" from your average amateur movie shot in someone's backyard on 8-millimeter. Even the gore is remarkably over-the-top and cartoon-like in nature, the kind of thing one would expect from a group of precocious high school students in their first experience with a camera.As uninteresting as it is uninspired, "Hood of Horror" gives anthology films a bad name.

Vomitron_G Let me tell you straight up that if you have issues with rather low-budget anthology-movies or simply can't stand Snoop Dogg, you just better stay away from HOOD OF HORROR. I personally think Snoop's always good for a laugh or two. So, I'm rating this flick solely on fun-factor, because it's pretty much light-years away from being a stellar horror-movie.The first segment has a good-looking ghetto-gal being granted super-powers by evil voodoo-man Danny Trejo to take on her whole graffiti-spraying neighborhood. The second one has a yuppie-couple move in with some Vietnam-vets. The greedy couple has a hidden agenda of their own, and naturally the two love-birds don't get along very well with the Vietnam-vets. Third and final segment shows us that the price of fame always catches up with you, no matter how big a rap-star you are. And when you've attained wealth and stardom in a rather dubious manner, you're in for some real 'shiiiit'.All stories have some very nasty and entertaining blood 'n' gore effects. Especially the climax of the second segment is pretty hilarious. The scene (first segment) that proofs sipping on gin & juice can cause a nasty splitting head-ache is a total hoot! Da Doggster himself is indeed worth a laugh or two (just watch out for the scene were he says "Doggy want a bone?" and then "boom!" goes the gun), but he didn't seem to have had a lot of directing guidelines. I suppose he must have thought his coolness was all it would take to play the part. His Cribkeeper character (or whatever it's called in the movie) has a nice back-ground story, told to us by a slick-looking anime-style animated wrap-around story. In addition, at the end of the movie, we get some sort of video-clip (featuring some of the cast members - including a devil-midget) of a Snoop Dogg song (apparantly especially written for the soundtrack for HOOD OF HORROR). He's just rapping it up on some fiery ghetto-set with a lot of demon-babes shaking their T&A. Pretty dumb song too, by the way, that seems to have been written and recorded in just one hour. The video-clip itself is of the same "cinematographic" quality as the rest of the movie (which means: tolerable and watchable).Final judgement: No flunk from Da Vomitron, because this flick follows the rules of an anthology movie nicely (three segments with a nice twist at the end, which you may or may not see coming and a fun wrap-around story). The rather low-budget didn't make 'em skimp on the decent gore-effects. The don't-take-it-all-serious vibe and Da Doggster's witty nonsense made it all a bit more enjoyable too.Now if you want to see a really good "horror in the hood" anthology movie, I full-heartedly recommend TALES FROM THE HOOD. At least Snoop Dogg's HOOD OF HORROR is a lot better than insufferable crap-fests like CUTTHROAT ALLEY and DA HIP HOP WITCH (dare I even watch HOOD OF THE LIVING DEAD? Anyone?), but it still remains just an entertaining nonsensical time-waster. A fun quickie, if you please.