Hood of Horror

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Movie
German title Hood of Horror
Original title Hood of Horror
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK kJ
Rod
Director Stacy Title
script Jacob Hair
Tim Sullivan
Chris Kobin
Jonathan McHugh
production Ted Chung
Jonathan McHugh
Martin Shore
Tim Sullivan
music Patrick Copeland
camera Claudio Rocha
cut Luis Colina
Jason Resmer
occupation

Hood of Horror (aka Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror ) is an American episodes - Horror resulted from the year 2006. Directed by Stacy Title , as host of the rapper leads Snoop Dogg through the plot.

action

A short cartoon tells about Devon's career as a "Hound of Hell" (HOH). After Devon accidentally kills his sister while on a drug trip, he makes a deal with the demon Liore. He pledges to serve Hell, for which his sister comes back to life. The HOH is now collecting souls for hell.

Crossed out

Posie, a graffiti sprayer, gets in trouble with a gang that is spraying their graffiti. On a roof, she falls into the clutches of the voodoo priest Derelict, who gives her a special gift: She can now kill people by spraying her tags. First, she takes revenge on the three-man gang that pursued her. But she becomes more and more greedy until Derelict takes the gift away from her and lets a zombie gang kill her previous victims.

The Scumlord

After Tex Woods Jr. killed his father, an oil millionaire, his will says he has to live with Vietnam War veterans who previously belonged to his father's unit for a year . The brutally racist heir takes advantage of his position as a homeowner and first has the seniors fix up a penthouse on the upper floor, where he lives in luxury with his girlfriend Tiffany, while the veterans go to the dogs below. When he also kills the nurse and one of the veterans dies of insufficient medical care, the veterans decide to fight back. They torture Tex and stuff his girlfriend full of caviar until it bursts. Then they throw Tex down the stairs in a wheelchair.

Rapsody Askew

Sod and Quon are two up and coming rap stars. When Quon is killed in a robbery, Sod finally rises to star. At an awards ceremony after-show party, Devon locks Sod in the form of an elderly woman and confronts him with his sins. Sod does not want to admit that he and his manager Jersey were behind the murder of Quon. So Devon lets Quon appear as a ghost who confronts him with his deed. When Jersey enters the room, Sod kills him trying to kill Quon a second time. Then he realizes that the whole thing was a trap. He desperately tries to shoot his way free, but is executed by the police.

Epilogue

HOH explains that each of the people would have had the opportunity to determine their own fate if only they had repented. Then he leads the viewer to hell, where he leads through the film again with a rap song.

background

The film is conceived as an homage to the old EC comics of the 1940s and 1950s. This basic concept includes the host who leads through the action. The scriptwriters Jacob Hair , Tim Sullivan , Chris Kobin and Jonathan McHugh focused on Snoop Dogg from the start. Before the contract was signed with him, they had film posters and comics made with his likeness. The second basis, based on the EC comics, is the horror stories with a bad ending for the bad people of the story. Innocent people are not affected as is customary today, but rather the victims of the devil (in this case the HOH) are also evil people.

The animation sequences at the beginning and at the end were made by the Japanese studio Madhouse .

publication

The film premiered in 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival. The premiere in the USA took place on October 18, 2006. The cinema release was on May 4, 2007. In Germany, the film was shown as part of the Fantasy Film Festival on August 13, 2008. The film failed the FSK test three times . The unabridged version was published on March 2, 2007 and approved by a legal commission as unobjectionable under criminal law. This version was indexed on December 28, 2007 . There is also a version that has been shortened by just under a minute and is available as a purchase DVD for people aged 18 and over. The indexing of the film was lifted again in March 2018.

criticism

Hood of Horror earned both praise and criticism for its concept. Many critics felt well entertained, but raised concerns that the episode film works primarily as a trash film and that no serious film is to be expected. In addition, both the type of storytelling and Snoop Dogg's presentation are clearly based on stories from the crypt and there are hardly any new ideas.

“The film is made with an unmistakable love of the genre and, in all fairness, a highly satisfactory work: Director Stacy Title goes to work like Peter Jackson in his early years, enthusiastically spilling fake blood, ramming beer bottles through heads and making sure that digital ones become stylish Pair effects with latex masks and make-up escapades. The result is a humorous panopticon of extreme violence and gore scenes with enough sex and crime. There is certainly not a little money in it, and it has been invested wisely: no horror film has managed to hit the trash lover's heart so purposefully and be so funny without drowning the genre in irony in ages. "

- KLaus Hübner : Evolver.at

“The stories of varying quality are framed by short cartoons in the style of old horror shows. All in all, quite varied entertainment. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Making-Of-Video, Hood of Horror DVD, Sunfilm Entertainment, 2007
  2. ^ A b John Anderson: Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror. (No longer available online.) Variety , June 30, 2007, archived from the original on June 12, 2012 ; Retrieved February 12, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  3. a b Hood of Horror in the online film database
  4. BAnz. No. 241 of December 28, 2007
  5. https://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=13170
  6. Steve Biodrowski: Review. cinefantastiqueonline.com, September 11, 2007, accessed February 12, 2011 .
  7. Klaus Hübner: Strizzi from hell. Evolver.at, March 12, 2007, accessed on February 12, 2011 .
  8. ^ Hood of Horror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed February 12, 2011 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used