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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

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

Hood of Horror is a gangsta horror anthology (gangthology?) comprising of three ghetto-flavoured tales, loosely tied together by an animated wraparound story. Whilst the stylish cartoon section is confusing and ultimately forgettable stuff, the bulk of the film is far more successful, being well written (much of it by 2001 Maniac's Tim Sullivan), very gory (albeit in a strictly tongue in cheek style), and confidently directed by Stacy Title.Hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg 'MC's the whole shebizzle (as he might say), introducing each story in his inimitable OG style, and what fun they are: first up is 'Crossed Out', which sees graffiti artist Posie (Daniella Alonso) being given the power to kill her enemies simply by crossing out their 'tags'; tale number two is 'The Scumlord', which stars Anson Mount as a racist, sexist Texan loudmouth who is set to inherit a tenement in the ghetto, but on one condition—that he spends a year in the building with the current occupants, his father's army buddies, the all black Fighting 88; the last story is 'Rapsody Askew' which follows ambitious rap artist Sod (Pooch Hall) as he does whatever it takes to achieve fame and fortune.A lot of people seem to dislike this film, calling it cheap and amateurish, but I had a great time with it even though I'm not a massive fan of the hip-hop scene: there are several familiar faces in the cast (Danny Trejo, Ernie Hudson and Lin Shaye) who lend proceedings a certain air of class. the splatter is very enthusiastic, the women are bootylicious, and I'm almost certain that the tunes are phat.

I am a sucker for anthologies and will watch just about any one (except for the sacrilegious CREEPSHOW 3). This one, which got a brief theatrical release last fall, has to be one of the worst. Snoop Dogg is the Cribkeeper and he tells us three stories of ghetto horror. Unfortunately, all three stories are so predictable and, most offensively, boring. The first one has a girl who gets the power to kill with her spray paint from the Devil (Danny Trejo). The second one is a spoiled son who is forced to live with his dead dad's Vietnam vet platoon (including Ernie Hudson) in order to gain his inheritance. And the final story has a rapper selling his soul to make it big. Ugh. This pales in comparison to Rusty Cundiff's TALES FROM THE HOOD (1995) and is strictly amateur hour with the acting and stories. The only positives are the gory deaths and make-up effects. The strangest thing about the entire film is that it is directed by Stacy Title, who made the well received comedy-drama THE LAST SUPPER (1995).

This film contains three interwoven tales from the hood, with Snoop Dogg (sometimes as an animated gangster and sometimes as a man in hell) narrating between segments. I use interwoven in the loosest sense because they really seem to have connection at all. I will discuss each one briefly.The first segment was about a woman named Posey who is granted satanic powers by a homeless man (Danny Trejo) and can kill rival gang members by simply crossing out their spray tags. It's really stupid. The plot is weak, Posey's acting is awful. Even Trejo and Billy Dee Williams cannot save this one. There is a great death scene involving a beer bottle, but that doesn't make up for the rest of this segment.The second segment was actually really good. A redneck and his girlfriend move into a home for retired veterans, with one of them, Roscoe, being played by Ernie Hudson. Hudson is great, as is the rich redneck. The deaths here are weaker (other than the explosion scene) but the plot is much better -- this was written as a real story and not just a throw-away idea. In fact, it could have been its own movie or at least an episode of "Masters of Horror". If you only watch this part, you might find the movie watchable.The third part was just foolish. Because these are tales from the hood, of course they took the stereotype route and one man escapes the hood by rapping. But he becomes haunted by his friends that he left behind to die. Some of the makeup here is pretty disgusting, which I mean in a nice way, but the overall story is just an excuse to show a guy in the studio rapping. If you already have Snoop Dogg in your cast list ,you don't need to add another man rapping.I suppose the problem of the film as a whole is that it was written and directed by different people in different segments. Compare this to "Creepshow", which is a lot more consistent. The best part -- part two -- was written by Tim Sullivan, the man behind "2001 Maniacs". It shows. I may not have been the biggest fan of that film, but Sullivan knows how to tell a story that horror fans appreciate (and he has some weird obsession with Confederate sympathizers). The other writers? I have no idea who they are.Other reviewers have called this film the "Hood of Horrible", and I want to jump on that bandwagon. It wasn't well made, it was poorly written for the most part, and although even some of the worst films can still be enjoyable, this one just wasn't. The odds of me seeing this a second time are pretty slim. If you get the chance to see it the first time, pass up on it and watch James Franco's "The Ape" instead.

OK now I realize that Snoop Dogg is a rapper and not a film guru or anything but this movie was just plain horrible and I could have made it a hell of a lot better myself. There is just lots of brainless and unfunny humor, and the gore is completely overrated and looks so fake because there is no way that anyone could ever spew that much blood out of one place in like 2 seconds. Now that I have covered the dumb humor and the fake gore, let's talk about the 3 stories. The first one just starts off with no incentive on how it began and these gangsters just start dying for no reason and its really dumb. The second story is about a veteran's son who inherits a trashy estate after his dad dies and the tenants don't like how he acts so they decide to get even and thats stupid too. The third story is even retarded because its about 2 rappers in which one is fatally shot and comes back to haunt the other because he believes that he was involved and its just really not entertaining at all. Altogether I gave this movie a 3 out of 10 because Snoop Dogg needs to stick to rap, I gave this movie a chance because I thought that Snoop's other horror film Bones was pretty good, but this was just horrible and I don't even know how it got made because it sucked and the greatest part about it was the credits.