Konterr Brilliant and touching

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

preppy-3 Snopp Dogg plays HOH (Hound of Hell) and relates three stories that describes how certain people ended up in hell. Unfortunately the viewer is forced to watch. The first has a headstrong young black girl determined to stop all gang members after witnessing her mother's murder. She gains a mystical power to kill people (don't ask) but the tale has a "tragic" and ridiculously pointless ending. The second has an obnoxious southern boy (well played by Anson Mount) who basically takes advantage of three elderly black war vets who are his tenants. You'll see the ending coming a mile away. The third I had trouble concentrating on. I was so bored I kept falling asleep! Something about a rapper paying for something wrong he did...or something. I really didn't care.The stories are dull--totally predictable and never even remotely scary. The dialogue just consists of actors swearing as much as possible in between dull stretches of exposition (if you can call it that). Also there are animated sequences introducing the film and in between the stories. They're somewhat interesting--but the animation is lousy. Dogg, as our host, is irritating and dull. In fact he's downright boring! He's so bad it makes you appreciate his "singing" more! The actors are, for the most part, not bad (Mount and Ernie Hudson are the best) but they're defeated by boring stories and dialogue. Even the gratuitous blood and gore isn't good! This bombed and disappeared quickly. Hopefully it will be a loooonnnggggg time before Dogg makes another horror film! Bottom of the barrel here. A 1.

Joel I knew this was going to be kind of ridiculous, and I was actually hoping for something along the lines of "Tales From the Crypt."Unfortunately, I could only sit through one story without almost vomiting... even then, it was hard to sit there hoping for some decent acting.Even the anime transitions weren't all that special, and I'm a huge anime fan. I wasn't desperate for entertainment, I just wanted to see what this was all about.What was Snoop thinking? 0/10

JB Beverley I read the reviews that called this film "Tales From The Crypt" set in the ghetto. It's more like a bunch of characatures and stereotypes put to motion picture.In the opening scene, Snoop Dogg (playing the role of either the devil, or some demon pimp) tells us that the Hood Of Horror is even too much for the "toughest OG's" or something like that, but the only scary thing about the film is that I paid money to rent it.The first tale features a girl out tagging who looks like she was living in North Hollywood rather than "the hood". She runs across some tough OG's... tough if you live in Mayberry. The gang of three (a latino, a brotha, and a white boy) made me laugh out loud. None of them look too tough. The latino looks the closest to convincing, but I couldn't help but picture the character not having boy bands in his CD collection. The brotha looked too "quarterback jock" to come off as a ghetto thug, and the white boy couldn't wash Eminem's boxer shorts.Anyway, the girl is out tagging... she gets caught tagging over the gansta's wall, and runs for her life after getting threatened at gunpoint. she runs into Danny Trejo in bad makeup. He gives her a irezumi style tattoo against her will and tells her she now has a gift. She then gets to witness the gangsta's who were chasing her just moments before suffer untimely deaths... The most laughable being the 40 oz. through the mouth. Give me a break. I almost split a rib at that one.. Then as soon as they are death, their corpse/ghosts come back to life and kill her. That is, after Danny Trejo in bad makeup takes her tattoo away for tagging over their names after they die.The second tale is the most offensive and ridiculous. Its about a southern white couple who come to the hood. He is a textbook stereotype "tex", and his bubbly white bimbo wife is about the most annoying creature I have seen on film in a while. The story is that they (the couple) are moving into a housing unit that his "daddy" left him in his will. Daddy had been a COLONEL in the US ARMY, and had presided over an all-black unit. His dad supposedly was good to the men, and good to others, but yet his son came up a smack-talking racist. I know that it can happen, but I had a tough time seeing such an ignorant stereotypical character be the product of a Colonel in the US ARMY. Sorry.Anyway, the dialog becomes so predictable and hokey that it actually made me a tid-bit uneasy. And the actual unfolding of the story (although a cool idea: teaching the young racist some honor and respect by torturing him and his wife to death) winds up being ruined by crappy writing and a HORRIBLY awful CGI climax. A almost didn't watch the last installment, but I am glad I did because it was ironically the ONLY one that is tolerable.It's about a hip-hop duo that disbands because one of them dies. Only, the survivor is plagued by not only a strange woman (Lin Shaye)and the ghost of his dead "partner", but by the notion that OTHERS know what his role had been in the mysterious murder. It's not enough to save the film from ridiculousness, but the third story IS the closest thing to an episode of "Tales From The Crypt" or "Tales From The Darkside" that this film offers.Love ya Snoop, but next time, make a hood movie that comes off with some street cred. -JB

TheEmulator23 Now first things first, I love Snoop as a Rap artist but mostly his album "Doggystyle" is the quintessential rap album. Now this movie is terrible in so many ways. The acting is some of the worst I have ever seen. The directing was worse than a soap opera, and the stories are pointless and boring. I can see why this went Direct-to-DVD, because it is that bad. This reminds me of a poor mans "Tales from the Hood." There is nothing even mildly entertaining about this garbage either! I don't know why Snoop continues to try and act and produce movies that couldn't be shown on the Sci-Fi channel at Midnight! How this got made is beyond me. Please whatever you do, don't waste your time on this absolute garbage. I would recommend you try watching the above mentioned "Tales from the Hood" which is ten times more entertaining than this, and even that isn't that great, but it makes that look like a masterpiece.