History Film / TalesFromTheHood3

Denton Wilbury (Cooper Huckabee) finds himself in a tense standoff with law enforcement. As the time in the bunker increases so does his derangement....

* BodySurf: [[spoiler:In “Operatic”, Marie and her lover are able to steal the bodies of others. It's stated that Park has had multiple bodies over the years, while Marie has been waiting years for the right one -- a young woman with a beautiful singing voice -- to come along, so that she can have the career she wasn't able to have in her own time.]]

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys A serial child murderer named William who is ultimately killed by the ghosts of his victims, who are wearing animal masks. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?]]]]

* BodySurf: [[spoiler:In “Operatic”, Marie and her lover are able to steal bodies from people, though they only do it to people who deserve it. It's stated that Park has had multiple bodies, while Marie has been waiting years for the right one -- a young woman with a beautiful singing voice -- to come along, so that she can have the career she wasn't able to have in her own time.]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In ''The Bunker'', Denton lives in a bunker and spends his days advocating white supremacy over the radio and scaring off anyone who approaches his bunker. [[spoiler: The twist is that Denton lives in a zoo where he's a living exhibit as the "American Racist". Although the metaphor sounds a bit absurd, ''Human Zoos'' were very much real and active during the 19th and 20th centuries and involved imprisoning marginalised people and treating them as wild exotic animals. It's worth noting that Human Zoos were seen as controversial during their own time period.]]

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The reason Percy finds himself in his current predicament.

* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:William kills his victims with an axe.]]

** [[spoiler:Denton is a despicable, unhinged racist, and he winds up getting himself killed in the most pathetic way possible when his bullet ricochets off of a ForceField and hits him in the head. Percy assaults people in order to rob them. His actions wind up dooming him to an AndIMustScream situation.]]

Percy Woodhouse (Patrick Abellard) is not a very nice person. Dubbed The Punch & Run Bandit, he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally assaults]] and robs anyone he deems vulnerable be they man, woman or child. After "acquiring" a pair of gold sneakers from his latest victim Percy starts to experience some rather peculiar symptoms. Mr. Woodhouse is about to learn the old adage "Do onto others..." the hard way....

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Percy who becomes physically impaired to the point were he can't move or speak, unable to try to break the curse by apologizing to Victor. Not only is he trapped in his living corpse as demon claw at it in a futile effort to extract his soul for eternity, everything that happens to his last victim's body will happen to him as well and he's going to feel everything. You know it’s bad when it is explicitly stated that ''going to Hell is the better option.'']]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Burr, who hires an arsonist to collect insurance money and is perfectly willing to commit murder to keep out of jail.

** Downplayed. Brooklyn may know several creepy stories no child should ever hear or know, but she’s pretty cheerful and naive otherwise. [[spoiler:But this is all a facade for her true identity as Satan, come to set up William’s end.]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Percy, who is left permanently in the state between life and the afterlife, forever having demons trying and failing to take his soul, and has just been autopsied, meaning he can’t save himself by apologizing to his victim. You know it’s bad when it is explicitly stated that ''going to Hell is the better option.'']]

** [[spoiler:Denton is a despicable, unhinged racist, and he winds up getting himself killed in the most pathetic way possible when his bullet ricochets of a ForceField and hits him in the head.]]
** [[spoiler:Percy is a merciless, brutal criminal who gives his victims unnecessarily hard and brutal beatdowns for flimsy reasons, or no reason at all. His actions wind up coming back to bite him and get him stuck in an AndIMustScream situation.]]

* CantTakeCriticism: Marie called Chela's voice "serviceable", but in need of training. It's barely even a critique, but it's enough for Chela to imagine cracking her head open.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Burr, who has engaged in arson and many other illegal activities, and is perfectly willing to commit murder to keep out of jail.

** Ethan Bradford wasn't creepy while alive, but as a ghost, well...

* DisproportionateRetribution: Because Marie criticized her one time and then apologized for it immediately, Chela goes all in on murdering her and stealing her money.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:None of the segments end well for the protagonists, though they all deserved it. “Ruby Gates” is the biggest downer, since at the end of the day, the Bradfords are still dead, even if they got to take Burr down with them too.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: A twofold example in the wraparound segment. [[spoiler: William is legitimately disturbed by Brooklyn's stories and the fact that a child has been told these clearly inappropriate horror stories, while Brooklyn, who is revealed to be the Devil, is disgusted by William's child murders.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's kind of odd that the little girl character is the one telling the scary stories instead of the devil this time? [[spoiler: It's because between the two of them, William isn't the one who's the devil, at least not literally.]]
* GhostlyGoals: The Bradfords and [[spoiler: William]]'s victims want revenge on their killer, and stick around to give them bloody payback.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Burr initially feels guilty over inadvertently causing the death of the Bradfords, but he ultimately shoves his guilt aside and begins trying to kill anyone who could expose him.

** Percy, who absolutely pummels his victims beyond the point of what is necessary, and shows no remorse for beating an old woman into a coma or beating a guy to death.

* KickTheDog: Percy beat an old woman into a coma because she landed on top of her purse... [[NeverMyFault after he punched her out to rob her.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Burr is initially guilt-ridden after accidentally killing the Bradfords, but ultimately decides he'd rather save his own skin than try to atone.
* MythicalMotifs: A subtle one, [[spoiler: ''Dope Kicks'' has some similarities to the legend of Prometheus. In Greek mythology, Prometheus was a titan who stole fire from the Olympians to give to humanity and is punished by the gods by having an eagle eat his liver for all eternity (it would grow back every day). In ''Dope Kicks'', Percy was a thief who stole from a Voodoo witch's grandmother and is cursed for hospitalising her. Percy stole a pair of shoes from his latest victim and was cursed to "Walk a mile in his victim's shoes" by the Voodoo witch until he apologises. When he's too late to apologise to his final victim, he's punished for all eternity by being pecked at by demonic birds who've come to harvest his soul but are unable to do so.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Percy's M.O. is to sucker punch his victims and continue beating them long after they are down. One of his victims goes into a coma from the beating, while another one winds up dying.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: William ends up having his head cut off and taken to Hell.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: A voodoo curse placed on Percy causes him to go through all the suffering his latest victim went through. Since he ''killed'' said victim, he starts exhibiting the different stages of death and decomposition. The only way to break the curse is for him to apologize to his victim, but [[spoiler:he fails to do so before the autopsy begins]].
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Satan/Brooklyn (of all people) is arguably doing this for the children murdered by William. (S)he expresses disgust at William's child murders, helps the ghosts of the murdered children get their revenge on him, and doesn't interfere or seem at all bothered when the children's souls leave their bodies and presumably ascend to Heaven (out of his reach).]]

* YouHaveFailedMe: Burr shoots Mickey dead for accidentally killing the Bradfords with the fire he started, due to it attracting police attention.

A lumbering man named William (Creator/TonyTodd) escorts a young child named Brooklyn (Sage Arrindelle) through the woods and into an abandoned building, as they are both on the run from the “bad things”, an evil force that is pursuing them. To distract William from the impending danger, Brooklyn tells him stories. The four stories are:

Slumlord David Burr (London Brown), owner of the Ruby Gates apartment complex, plans to bulldoze it and replace it with high-rent condos. A wrench is thrown in his plans, however, by the only people left in the building: The Bradfords, who refuse to move so as not to aggravate their son's cancer. With his boss threatening to sue him for fraud and time running out, Burr hires an associate of his, a disturbed arsonist, to start a fire to scare the Bradfords out of their apartment. Unfortunately, it goes wrong and results in them burning to death, and their ghosts begin to haunt Burr, seeking revenge on him.

Denton Wilbury (Cooper Huckabee), an absolute bigot, spends his days living like a hermit in an isolated bunker in the middle of nowhere. He runs his own radio show to broadcast various rants of white supremacy, and occasionally comes off to threaten people who seem to congregate outside his bunker, apparently being in a standoff with them. As Denton grows increasingly unstable and unhinged, things build up to a surprise twist.

Aspiring pop singer Chela Simpson (Creator/SavannahBasley) is hired as a caretaker by Marie Benoit (Creator/LynnWhitfield), an elderly and wealthy former opera singer. Marie only had one role in her career: the lead in ''Carmen''. In spite of her talent, her career was destroyed by backlash against a black woman playing the lead. Though the two singers seem to come to a bond, Chela and her manager/boyfriend Park (Jaime M. Callica) conspire to murder her and steal her fortune. But not everything is as it seems, as Marie may or may not have ulterior motives.

Percy Woodhouse (Patrick Abellard) is a criminal nicknamed the Punch & Run Bandit. He is known for [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally assaulting]] and then robbing his victims, whether they be children, adults, or in the case of his latest target, an elderly grandmother. The old woman's granddaughter, in a furious rage, curses the person responsible to "walk a mile in their victim's shoes". After beating a man to death and stealing his gold shoes, Percy finds that the shoes won’t come off, and he seems to be exhibiting various symptoms related to death, almost as if the curse is making him literally walk in his victim's shoes.