Movie Review: Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror a.k.a Hood of Horror 

Snoopadelic Films Inc., Social Capital, BloodWorks, USA, 2006. 

Gangsta Devon (Snoop Dogg) accidentally shoots his little sister. While pursuing a rival gang he bites off more than can chew. In exchange for her sister's life he signs a contract with demon Liore (voiced by Hawthorne James). He is now a Hound of Hell and he can decide who will go to hell. Devon the Crib Keeper tells three stories. 

Devon

Devon the Crib Keeper

Crossed Out 

Posie's (Daniella Alonso) parents died violently. She spray paints tags and annoys the gangs. One day she meets Hound of Hell Derelict (Danny Trejo). Derelict gives her the powerful tattoo. She can now kill enemies by painting over their names. Soon gangstas start getting killed in freak accidents. Pastor Charlie (Billy Dee Williams) has to tell the sad news to their relatives. 

Posie

Derelict

Posie goes too far and continues painting her own tags after eliminating the competitors. Derelict removes her gift with gory results. 

Pastor Charlie

This story has some bizarre ways to die.

The Scumlord

Two obnoxious racist rednecks Tex Jr. (Anson Mount) and Tiffany (Brande Roderick) are given inheritance on the condition that they must live together with black Vietnam veterans. Roscoe (Ernie Hudson), Jackson (Richard Gant), Stevens (Tucker Smallwood) and Vance (L. Kenneth Richardson) were Tex Sr.'s (Chuck Hicks) friends. Tex Jr. and Tiffany start exploiting the veterans and their nurse Wanda (Sydney Tamiia Poitier). When the pair murders Wanda the veterans decide to fight. 

Tiffany and Tex Jr.

Roscoe and the veterans

Wanda

This is the most disgusting of the three stories.

Rapsody Askew

Rapper named SOD (Pooch Hall) starts making music with Quon (Aries Spears). SOD has a terrible ego but Quon always stays as his loyal friend. SOD's fame rises fast but Quon dies in liquor store shootout. However Sod arranged Quon's murder so he would get sympathy and become famous. Evil has to pay.

SOD

Quon

This is the most closest to the "Tales from the Crypt" stories.

There are some anime-sequences by Madhouse-studios. This is quite bad ghetto-version of "Tales from the Crypt." Personally I haven't ever been a big fan of horror anthology movies as they tend to mix mediocre stories with some interesting stories that are too short to fully develop their potential. The opening anime is quite cool, but far from Madhouse-studios' best efforts. The first story is a disappointment with lackluster conclusion, the second is crap and the third is tolerable. There are some  moral lessons in the stories but mostly they are just used to introduce gory scenes. Rapper Method Man and basketball player Lamar Odom appear as themselves and "Seinfeld's" Jason Alexander appears as record producer. Snoop is quite fun as the Crib Keeper with some amusingly random comments. He also sings a horror rap song in the end. Some well-known names in the cast do not make it good.

What a waste...of beer.

Rating: Bad

Starring: Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Pooch Hall, Anson Mount, Daniella Alonso, Lin Shaye, Brande Roderick, Richard Gant, Aries Spears, Dallas Page, Jeffrey Licon, Noel Gugliemi, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tucker Smallwood, Cleo King, Jason Alexander, Billy Dee Williams, Glenn Cadrez, Hawthorne James, L. Kenneth Richardson, Yadi Valerio Rivera, Jonathan Penner, Rayna Tharani, Tayshaun Prince, Tanisha Jones, Gabriel Pimentel, Andrea Leon, Irina Voronina, Justin Fargas, Teyo Johnson, Ava Penner, Method Man, Lamar Odom, Chuck Hicks 

Director: Stacy Title