Hey fam, don't be scared.
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The Halloween season is near and so we dove back into the 1995 horror anthology movie,
Tales from the Hood.
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This is Hip Hop Movie Club, the show for serious hip hop fans who want to deepen their
cultural knowledge.
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We've watched over 75 hip-hop themed movies and in this episode, we will tell you if it is
a hidden gem or if it should stay buried.
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We'll give you a quick snapshot about the film, talk about where it fits in the hip-hop
canon, a few fun facts, what kind of impact this film had and what fans said about this
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movie.
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Tales from the Hood is a horror anthology
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about three young men who visit a mysterious funeral home where the eccentric mortician tells them four supernatural stories that blend
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scares with social commentary on issues like police brutality, racism, and domestic
violence.
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Think The Twilight Zone meets urban horror with each tale exploring how supernatural justice comes from those who commit very human evils.
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All right, Tales from the Hood.
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Let's talk about director, some of the key cast members.
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Boogie, you want to take us through some of those?
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I know it's a Rusty Cundieff film, but Spike Lee was executive producer on this one.
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Absolutely.
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This is definitely a Spike Lee joint.
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As you can tell from some of the issues that it tackled throughout the film.
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But yeah, let's talk about the cast a little bit.
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We've seen some very familiar faces in this one.
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From several of the films that we've reviewed and some that we haven't seen in other
films, but just legendary nonetheless.
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The Mortician was played by Clarence Williams III.
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I old school, I grew up on the Mod Squad.
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So this was my man from back in the day.
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He was convincingly
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Creepy.
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Very weird, just like what is going on?
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a couple of In Living Color alum, David Alan Grier, T'Keyah Crystal Keymah.
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We had some other cast members from movies that we've reviewed, just to name a few of
them.
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We had Joe Torry DeAundre Bonds, Roger Smith
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Paula Jai Parker, Sammy Monroe Jr.
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Yeah, I mean, you're gonna look at this film and if you've watched some of the films that
we reviewed, you're gonna definitely recognize a lot of the cast members in it.
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And it was good.
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think that they all played off each other well.
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Yeah, that's a surprise.
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Corbin Bernsen, Roger Dorn from Major League was in this.
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It's one of my favorite movies.
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Now it's kind of odd that he was cast in this, but he played a former KKK member who was a
politician.
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And we'll talk about that a little bit, that some some interesting facts regarding that
character and his name.
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He does.
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Quite well-casted.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And we mentioned director Rusty Cundieff.
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We had reviewed Fear of a Black Hat, which came out two years prior to this.
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And that was just a parody on hip hop culture.
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And as you mentioned, Boogie, with Spike Lee involvement, you see the social commentary
mixed with the campy horror.
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And I really enjoyed that combination of those two collaborating.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah, so really good cast.
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So where does this fit like in the hip hop film Canon?
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It's unique, right?
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Because it's an intersection of the mid nineties hip hop because we'll get to the
soundtrack.
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It has some really good tracks on that.
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This is right at the heart of the mid nineties hip hop.
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Hip hop is really gaining steam and popularity and becoming more mainstream.
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So I call it hip hop's golden age.
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And the focus on the social consciousness and street narratives is what a lot of folks
were doing back in the day and telling those types of stories through rap.
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Tupac, Cube, et cetera.
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Right, a lot of cautionary tales in hip hop and this is kind of like somebody took the
lyrics from a few songs and put them into a film.
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Yeah, definitely.
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is pretty well done.
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I like the anthology format where you have, vignettes,
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you can call them like different stories, but they all tie together by that social consciousness.
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You got one about police brutality, one about domestic violence, you have gang violence,
and then straight up racism, the one with the dolls.
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the format works and each one was not too long, not too short.
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It kind of laid it out really plainly for you so that you can kind of understand what was
going on really quickly.
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And once the retribution of sorts came towards them, they didn't drag it out.
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It just kind of got to the point, got out and just moved on to the next one.
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which I thought worked really well because sometimes It got right in, it got right to the
point.
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If you couldn't really understand what was going on, I mean, it was pretty
simple to understand.
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Right, right, it was pretty simple to understand.
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It was authentic and it was gritty with the detail with the police brutality, they're
really, really brutal and framing him with the drugs and injecting him and it was just
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crazy.
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But then they get their comeuppance, We'll do like a deep dive into the soundtrack.
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They only played a handful of songs, but there are some bangers in this one.
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You see some elements of Wu Tang on the soundtrack.
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Inspectah Deck has a song, Let Me At Them.
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Kurupt is on this one, MC Eiht. So back when soundtracks were an actual thing where you go out and buy the CD.
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And this was a pretty good one.
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It went to #16 on the Billboard chart and number one in the hip-hop R &B chart.
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it did better than the movie itself, at least at the time, in terms of box office.
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you got some pretty, pretty legit, people in the soundtrack.
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I was like, whoa.
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And it's crazy because I remember when the movie came out, but I didn't
necessarily remember the soundtrack as much, but looking at the soundtrack, I'm like, man,
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I should have listened to this when it came out.
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was right up our alley.
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man, got an Inspectah Deck is like, you know, that's one of my favorite Wu-Tang lyricists.
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I say that all the time.
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He's so underrated.
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But he just comes in and he delivers every time Scarface, Spice-1, like ODB, Havoc
and Prodigy, MC Eiht like all these people I listen to.
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Grave Diggaz you know, like, what?
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listen to these guys.
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I pulled it up on Spotify afterwards and Yeah, it's just kind of underrated.
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Back to the movie though.
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We start the film with the title track by Domino and Chill, but really there wasn't that
much more hip hop in it.
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Like just from a score standpoint, but they do play “Born to Die” by Spice-1 in a couple
of spots and really good needle drops there.
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They really, really move the story.
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the scene with Crazy K getting the behavioral modification playing during the montage of
the
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Yes.
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Jim Crow, all the lynching stuff.
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Well executed, I say.
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yeah.
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That uh was some shock value for you right there.
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song with the montage playing, it drove the point right on home.
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And some other interesting tidbits or fun facts from this movie that I had researched
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the director Rusty Cundieff cast his real life parents in the film.
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His father, John, played the priest at Rhodey's funeral and his mother Christina played
Miss Cobbs, the woman in the painting with the dolls in the KKK comeuppance segment.
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Yep.
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That was good, a little family affair.
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yeah.
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interviews with Rusty Cundieff talking about how his mom doesn't have any lines in this, but
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she can play angry and like withering stare really good.
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I thought, if I know mom's, mom's can do that.
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Hahaha
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yeah, yeah.
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That's a universal trait right there.
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Slam dunk casting call.
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Hahaha.
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I surmised this right away.
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When I saw Corbin Bernsen was a politician from the KKK named Duke, I was like, is it a
play on David Duke?
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And it was actually his name was Duke Metger.
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And it's a combination of two real life white supremacists, a former neo-Nazi
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Klansman, David Duke and Tom Metzger, who founded the White Aryan Resistance.
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So they combine those two names.
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Um, which, you know, it worked in this, in this case, obviously.
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no subtlety here.
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Any other fun facts that you guys came across?
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This is actually Rosalind Cash's last feature film.
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Yeah, shut out to Rosalind Cash. I forgot them I don't know how I forgot to mention her
name
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Yeah, playing the characters that she's had in the past, like in General Hospital and
stuff like that, to play this, like,
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malevolent doctor doing this behavioral modification
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thing on Crazy K, it was really creepy.
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But she has such a regal presence that, like, doing this torture, it's like, whoa, it
makes it even
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You know, this is a campy
this is a campy horror movie.
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But this part was like really kind of
bone rattling.
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Especially the final scene of, of the,
the procedure
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where it's shot with a strobe light.
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And that weird part was the actual, like,
really scary part to me.
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If there was a scary part,
this movie like, wow,
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like the mental torture going on here,
it was like dead.
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seriously bad.
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And really heavy, right?
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It was it was almost like you could
you could almost imagine someone
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attempting to do something like this.
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Yeah. That's it was very realistic.
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Like in the sense of
I can see somebody trying to do this.
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You know, this is very, very reminiscent.
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Maybe even, straight up
copy of A Clockwork Orange. Yes.
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that it seems implausible, but it's
very plausible that someone would do this.
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I mean, so.
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These kinds of, like, actual like,
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scary stuff is, was really,
really good to have in a movie like this
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because it gives you that,
that core of something actually serious,
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besides the other social issues
brought. Up.
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But yeah.
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And gave it some weight to it.
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And then the comeuppance dolls were Chiodo
brothers
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dolls that they also used in Team
America: World Police
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They were great.
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I could watch a whole movie of. That,
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of. These, these revenge dolls.
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And they were they were good man.
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I like the scene when he was down
the hallway and he's running towards them.
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It's like.
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Oh my God, it's so creepy.
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So good, so good.
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And then attacking Corey Burson
and just eating them alive.
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Very satisfying.
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This film
I mean talk about impact and legacy.
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Like I don't think it has a strong legacy.
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It's kind of a cult classic.
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It's campy horror
and with with a bit of a hood theme.
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It was this is my first time
watching as much better than I expected.
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I like broken up the vignettes,
but it worked.
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And I think that combination of hip
hop and horror,
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you know, we've seen that progress
throughout the years.
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I'm not saying that this one would
like blaze trails, but it was good.
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It kind of followed the theme of like a
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Tales from the Crypt,
you know, Twilight Zone type format.
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I'll let you weigh in on this BooGie, but
I think the biggest impact of this film
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is it really sort of
opened up the idea of Black horror,
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like uppercase B, the Black
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directors, Black
filmmakers making horror movies.
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You can make the connection
between this and Candyman
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by near the cast,
and Get Out by Jordan Peele and other.
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I'm missing other movies,
but those were like the bigger ones.
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It took a while for it to really kick in.
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This, you know, this is now 30 years ago.
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But having Spike
Lee there to kind of push this along,
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I think really launched
the subgenre of Black horror films.
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Yeah. I mean, I definitely agree.
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I mean, prior
to this, we didn't really have we didn't
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have a whole lot of, like you said,
Black quote unquote Black horror films.
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But yeah, this definitely opened the door.
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I'm almost disappointed in myself
that I haven't watched his prior,
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because I remember when it came out,
I distinctly remember when it came out
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and I was just like,
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this is going to be so cheesy and corny,
and I'm like, I'm not watching that.
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And meanwhile, you know, we're sitting I'm
sitting here watching
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this with my mother, you know,
so that we can review it tonight.
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And I'm like,
oh my God, this is actually pretty good.
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Like I really enjoyed it.
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Like the subject matter.
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I mean, I think it was very poignant
and I think that
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every scene I played out,
I could relate to each story.
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And it was it was something that like,
oh God, if that really did happen,
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that would be kind of scary.
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Like, oh my God, like you said, the
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the last one with the, with the covers,
that was just that was bone rattling.
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But they definitely did show
that there's a marketplace
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and a space for,
for Black horror films. And,
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yeah, I mean, Spike
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Lee, always a visionary trailblazer and,
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producing this, but
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yeah, I'm just like I said, I'm almost
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That's probably my biggest takeaway
from watching from watch
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this film is that I'm disappointed
that I didn't watch it prior.
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And I had not seen this before either.
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So I'm glad I watched this.
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Yeah. And I think I already mentioned
I haven't seen either.
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So yeah, glad we're watching it
and I'm glad that it's a good one
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because we will be doing this
collaboration event,
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which will promote again at the end,
an episode
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with the First Saturday Horror series, the
How Could You?! podcast.
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And, hopefully
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And, I'm glad it's not a dud of a film.
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Yes, this is actually has some good
message behind it, and it's entertaining,
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and it has the horror elements
and good cast. It checks
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a lot of the boxes.
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Yeah, yeah, I was a little nervous,
but I'm not nervous anymore.
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I mean, I’m going to enjoy watching this
on a big screen.
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Yeah, sure.
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Yeah.
It's going to be fun on a big screen.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I guess the monster
all along was oppression. So,
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It's just it's it's too bad
that this film holds up
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as well as it does almost because
like these, we have the same issues
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30 years later then and in some cases,
it feels like it, nothing's changed.
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Right? Yeah.
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It seems like it even made now the like
this missing is like a cell phone.
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Right? Yeah.
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Some sort of like,
you know, relevant technology,
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like a cell phone or tablet or something.
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But yeah, everything,
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everything in this film
that it could absolutely happen right now.
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And it's still happening.
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It's still happening. Yeah. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah.
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The nice thing about this film is that
it does deal with these social issues
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in a way that most horror films get,
don't really get to this extent.
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I mean, there's always some sort of
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message in an even in a horror film,
but like, this one was very much
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a social commentary film
that used horror as as the backdrop.
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It was unique
in that sense, where it was ambitious,
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you know, you go and go Tales
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in the Hood, and you'd think
it's only going to be horror.
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But the social commentary was huge
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and it it's what gives into staying power
today.
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You could say, go ahead and watch this
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and you're going to get a lot of value
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you know, a
screening at a community theater.
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So come see it.
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Come on. My yeah, yeah.
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Come on I mean I yeah
I don't know if we looked up some of the
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I think I like mixed reviews.
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It didn't have like great reviews
like initially,
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but I think over time people
start appreciating yes, the content.
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And even now it's only a 6.6 on IMDb,
no, 58% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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But I was reading some reviews,
some re reviews.
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One of them, I think, was the British Film
Institute at that time that's come out.
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They, they mentioned that there was some
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sentiment that the police brutality thing
was exaggerated.
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It turns out it wasn't exaggerated at all.
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We should have been listening
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You know, it's crazy.
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they there's been stories that have been
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passed down through generations, you know.
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you know,
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with dealing with police officers.
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I mean, I have my own interactions
that have traumatized me in a sense,
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but that's beside the point.
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But but yeah, this stuff does happen.
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Absolutely does. Yeah.
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I really did enjoy this movie.
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Watch this all over again
and I will at our event.
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Yeah.
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Anyone get give a quick
shout out to a couple listeners.
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We got some some friends
over at Kutztown University in Kutztown
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PA doctor Marlene Farris
thank you for listening.
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Shouting us out in your class.
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And our friend Ali Akarcesme, who had collaborated with us,
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he did a panel discussion with us
Boyz n the Hood over in Bethlehem.
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So shout out to to you
fine folks over there at Kutztown.
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KU coming in strong. Golden Bears.
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If y'all can make it.
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Come on out. Come on out.
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Yeah, yeah, spread the word.
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Give that extra credit for.
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There you go.
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Right. Yeah. Come on out.
Bring your students.
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Right.
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I know it's,
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And Lehigh, you know, hopefully a D.J.
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ARM has ties to Lehigh he taught hip
hop classes.
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DJ ARM 18 over there.
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You know right around the corner
from Lehigh University.
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Back in session.
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I had the opportunity to tour
the beautiful campus over the weekend.
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My daughter loved it there. It was.
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It was amazing. Beautiful day for it.
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Great architecture, library, classrooms,
just a wonderful vibe out there.
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Why don’t we go around and give
our rating for Tales from the Hood.
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So BooGie, for Tales from the Hood,
would you bring that funky flick back
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or leave it in the vault?
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Bring a funky flick back?
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No, no other commentary necessary.
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DynoWright.
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Bring that funky flick back
or leave it in the vault.
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I am bringing this funky flick back.
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And that just because
we have an event coming up.
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But this was legitimately
a good movie. Yes.
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And make it unanimous.
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I will bring this funky flick back.
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It. Like I said, it
checked all the boxes for me.
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Right on.
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Thanks for tuning in to the Hip
Hop Movie Club show.
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I'm DynoWright.
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Filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan.
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And today, as we record September 16th,
it's the anniversary of Rapper's
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Delight coming out in 1979,
which was my introduction to hip hop.
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Imp the Dimp!
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I’m JB, 80s and 90s
nostalgia junkie, longtime hip hop fan.
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And this film was nostalgic for me
because it brought back memories
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of watching Tales from the Crypt on HBO,
as well as the campy Toxic Avenger series.
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Yeah, can't forget about The Toxic Avenger
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and, BooGie. a DJ,
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longtime hip hop fan
and in the spirit of Halloween,
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I absolutely enjoy
dressing up and scaring people.
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Yeah.
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I have video clips of me
sitting on the porch, dressed up
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and scaring the heck out of some trick
or treaters.
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It is hilarious.
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Think of those prank videos.
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When the guys are sitting there, you know,
people walk by and jumps at them.
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BooGie got the jump scares.
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Next week
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we'll be reviewing Anaconda starring Ice
Cube, Jennifer Lopez and many more.
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Join us Saturday, October 4th
at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
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at Steel Stacks in Bethlehem,
PA as Hip Hop Movie Club teams up
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with the First Saturday Horror series
and the hosts of the How Could You?! podcast
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for a special screening of Tales
from the Hood. This very film.
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You'll not want to miss this
spooktacular event.
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See this movie on the big screen!
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Don't hate because
you can see what the result would be.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Cautionary tales.