Tales from the Hood 3

While escaping from an evil thing, an old man (Tony Todd) listens to four horror tales told by a young girl (Sage Arrindell). 1st "Ruby Gates") The landlord David Burr (London Brown) needs to evict his last tenant, the Bradford Family, from his apartment building to make lots of money in a profitable construction business. However, the family refuses to leave the place since their son is treating cancer in a hospital near to the building. David decides to hire a low life to burn down the Bradford apartment to get rid of the tenants, but things go wrong. 2nd "The Bunker") A racist man is alone in a bunker promoting a white supremacy, but something unexpected happens. 3rd "Operatic") The backing vocal Chela Simpson (Savannah Basley) has an argument with the lead singer and is fired. She meets the agent Park (Jaime M. Callica), who introduces her to the former opera singer Marie Benoit (Lynn Whitfield), who is a wealthy woman and needs a caregiver. When Park convinces Chela to kill Marie to use her money to promote her career, she learns dark secrets. 4th "Dope Kicks") A small time thief robs defenseless people to rob wallets, cellphones, and sneakers. When he accidentally kills a victim, his aunt conjures a curse that affects his life. In general, the tales are predictable but entertains fans of horror movies. My vote is six. Title (Brazil): "Contos Macabros 3" ("Macabre Tales 3")

I grew up on Tales From the Hood (and Tales From the Crypt). 1995's movie starred the great Clarence Williams III. It effectively blended human issues, crime and drama, with the supernatural, horror and dark humor. 2020's movie needed more of horror legend Tony Todd and less London Brown. London Brown is a terrible actor. I made it 41 minutes with commercials and deleted my recording.

Tales from the Hood 3 (2020) I rented off Amazon Prime for $5.99. The storyline centers around an aging man scurrying a little girl to safety while being followed. To distract the child the old man convinces the little girl to tell him various stories she heard. The stories in this are very good and well presented. I loved the settings, costumes and scripts. The undertow a of the subplots within the primary storylines was also good. There are several scenes that relies on CGI too much; but overall, this is infinitely better than the second Tales from the Hood and almost as good as the original. I'd give this a 7/10. This movie is directed by Rusty Condieff (The original Tales from the Hood and episode of The Chappelle Show) and Darin Scott (Dark House) and stars Tony Todd (Candy Man), Savannah Basley (Wyonna Earp), London Brown (Ballers), Natasha Burnett (iZombie) and Alec Carlos.

I still hate admitting that Tales from the Hood 2 was a let-down. The first film is one of my favorite non-Amicus anthology films, so I was expecting so much. And just when I expected nothing from this film, it surprised me at every turn, becoming nearly as good as the original. Co-writer and co-director Rodney Cundieff (who wrote and directed this with Darin Scott) even admitted as much, telling Pod of Madness, "The stories, you know, they're not as big as the first Tales. But I do think that the stories are stronger, overall, than the second one, and the look of the film is better, a lot to do with the locations that we found." The framing story, "The Mouths of Babes and Demons," is about an old man named William (Tony Todd) trying to distract the six-year-old Brooklyn from the terror chasing them by listening to her tell him the four stories in this movie. "Ruby Gates" is about a real-estate agent struggling to remove the last family in an apartment complex from their home. It's followed by "The Bunker," in which we think we're seeing a MAGA white male (Cooper Huckabee from The Funhouse) rant and rave, which we are, but have no idea exactly why he remains so special. "Operatic" makes perfect use of the talents of Lynn Whitfield in the story of an elderly performer who continually watches the one time she was allowed to perform Carmen before racism took away her singing career and the lengths to which performers will go to succeed. Finally, in "Dope Kicks," the moral is you can take anything from a man, but never steal his shoes. While this is the first movie in the series without Mr. Simms, this movie is a strong entry in the horror anthology genre, as well as a return to form for Cundieff and Scott. Here's hoping that Tales from the Hood 4 is on the way.

Tales From the Hood 3 is nowhere near as good as the original, but at least it's not as terrible at the 2nd one. The first story is your average greed gets you killed story. The second is the best one and it's about a guy hiding in a bunker. The third is about an aging opera singer being nursed by two strangers. The last one is amusing enough, but the second story is the best.