Tales from the Hood is a 1995 horror anthology film directed by Rusty Cundieff, and executive produced by Spike Lee. The film presents four short African American-themed horror stories, presented within a frame story of three drug dealers buying some “found” drugs from an eccentric and story-prone funeral director.
In South Central, Los Angeles, a trio gang of drug dealers, Stack (Joe Torry), Ball (De’aundre Bonds) and Bulldog (Samuel Monroe Jr.), arrive at Simms’ Funeral Home to purchase some drugs from Mr. Simms (Clarence Williams III), the mortuary’s eccentric owner. Mr. Simms claims that he found the drugs in an alley and has them safely stored in the mortuary. He asks the dealers to help him get the drugs and, as the four make their way through the building, relates stories about some of his recent “customers”…
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“Of the myriad of all-black horror movies released in theaters in the past 20 years (let’s say, four), Tales from the Hood is probably the best. Smarter than Bones, with a grander scale than Def by Temptation, and well, it’s not Vampire in Brooklyn, TFTH follows the standard Tales from the Crypt anthology format, but each story addresses a pressing “urban” issue of the day — parallel parking, for instance.” Black Horror Movies
” … mixes the urban flavoring of Blaxploitation films with the EC Comics styling of Amicus’s horror anthologies. For whatever reason, it never occurred to anyone that these two should have been mashed up at the height of their 70s powers, but Tales from the Hood arrived about twenty years later to right that misdeed. Not content to simply deliver a conciliatory, better-late-than-never effort, Rusty Cundieff crafted a film that both revels in its roots and cleverly updates them.” Brett Galman, Oh, the Horror!
