Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006)

Runtime: 85 minutes

Directed by: Stacy Title

Starring: Snoop Dogg and some random people I'll mention later

From: The wonderfully named Snoopadelic Films, Inc.

I can thank cable for allowing me to see this motion picture. Or maybe it should be "thank" in a sarcastic sense. Onto the Letterboxd review: 

I realize this is a totally random horror movie of recent years to watch, but it was on cable late last night and despite hearing that it generally wasn't very good I was curious as it being something from and starring Snoop Dogg is certainly wacky, the cast is quite varied (besides Snoop there's everyone from Aries Spears, Billy Dee Williams, Sydney Tamia Poitier and the great Ernie Hudson to Anson Mount, Diamond Dallas Page, Danny Trejo, and even Jason Alexander), and considering how big a percentage they make up of the horror market, there should be more horror films centered around “the minority crowd”. There also need to be more horror anthologies.

Unfortunately, this movie is pretty crappy.

It's a horror anthology hosted by Snoop as “a hound of hell”. An interesting animated interlude explains how he earned such a title; he presents a trio of stories that involve such things as the world of “tagging”, a stereotypical white trash couple having to live with some old African-American gentlemen, and the tale of two rappers.

All those stories have potential but they just fail and don't work. That's one of the sins of this movie, although there are others... such as it trying to be funny in various ways but it rarely actually is amusing, there being gross stereotypes, stories poorly told or constructed or just plain unpleasantness, which this is full of, especially in the second story. You also get several deaths that are supposed to be laugh out loud due to how ludicrous they are-they just come off as stupid. Oh, and you can't forget all the racism, misogyny, foul language, graphic gore, and other “pleasantries” that don't work well together.

Point is, I was hoping for something that was at least entertaining, but with the first story actually being a crappy simplified version of Death Note (really), the second one being absolutely unpleasant to the point that I almost turned the movie off, and the last one is just dull and kind of pointless.

So really, there are a number of horror anthologies to see that are better than this one; heck, you could watch some old episodes of Tales from the Crypt if you want some horror with comedic moments and believe me, Tales from the Hood (which I'll eventually watch again to rate on this site) is a MUCH better anthology involving African-Americans.

I'll return tomorrow night.