{"id":33893,"date":"2020-10-06T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=33893"},"modified":"2020-10-06T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:34:38","slug":"tales-from-the-hood-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/tales-from-the-hood-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Hood 3 (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The \u201cTales from the Hood\u201d series keeps chugging on and sadly doesn\u2019t seem to be taking advantage of its platform involving racial and social commentary, anymore. While \u201cTales from the Hood 3\u201d is a solid horror anthology, it doesn\u2019t pack any of the social commentary we saw in the original movie and the zany sequel. That both works against and for the considerably low budget follow up. I doubt a lot of people are going to enjoy \u201cTales from the Hood 3\u201d but I had a good time.<\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott, Tony Todd plays a man who is fleeing with his young daughter from a pair of cloaked beings that are following them relentlessly. Desperate, they hide in a local cemetery where Todd\u2019s daughter begins to regale him with a slew of horror stories. I guess you could chalk it up to the low budget, but there\u2019s very little exposition and set up when it comes to every story, and a lot of the segments involve the set up, delivery, and the big twist. Most times it works, other times it just lands with a thud.<\/p>\n

\u201cRuby Gates\u201d is a great story with some genuine scares and wonderful tension. Centered on a young man trying to move a small family out of their apartment in order to help a crooked landlord sell the property, he teams with an arsonist. When they\u2019re burnt alive, he\u2019s haunted and ultimately handed his comeuppance by the family. \u201cThe Bunker\u201d is a tad clunky but the only bit of social commentary, centering on a crazed white supremacist holed up in a bunker in a stand off with mysterious individuals outside his property line. There isn\u2019t much to this segment beyond the big plot twist in the finale which, while it feels like a \u201cTwilight Zone\u201d send up, is lukewarm.<\/p>\n

\u201cOperatic\u201d is easily the best of the bunch centering on a retired African American woman whose career was killed after daring to star in \u201cCarmen.\u201d When an aspiring young singer is hired to keep her company and care for her, she has plans to murder the aged singer and steal her fortune. But not everything is as it seems. \u201cDope Kicks\u201d could have easily been sliced out of the film giving it a more streamlined energy. It\u2019s another comeuppance tale involving a petty thief who steals a pair of sneakers from one of his victims, and soon is able to literally walk a mile in the shoes of everyone he\u2019s victimized. It\u2019s pretty silly and stale, and considering the terrible CGI, its delivery is flat. \u201cTales from the Hood 3\u201d is imperfect and won\u2019t be considered a masterpiece, but in the age of the anthology renaissance, it\u2019s a decent diversion.<\/p>\n