YMMV / Tales from the Hood

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• Awesome Music: Christopher Young's score beautifully accents the movie, especially the music that accompanies the Twist Ending, "Chorale Postlude".
• Cult Classic: Certainly garnered a fanbase over time with many viewing it as not only pretty scary in parts, but especially socially relevant.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "Rogue Cop Revelation" can be incredibly difficult to watch nowadays due to the many (publicized) cases in the past few years of police brutality against black people, especially considering the number of cases which ended in the deaths of those who were innocent. Although it's worth noting that this movie was made after the wake of the Rodney King riots, another point at which corruption and racial abuse within many American police departments was similarly under criticism.
• Magnificent Bastard: The enigmatic Mr. Simms presents as an eccentric and oddly charismatic funeral director who lures in gangsters Stack, Ball and Bulldog with a set of engaging stories, only to reveal that they are in hell and he is The Devil toying with them. In the second film, Simms is invited to help program a new security robot for corrupt prison manager Dumas Beach, but instead ensures the robot will kill Beach so Simms can claim his soul. In the third, Simms disguises himself as a little girl to lure in serial child murderer William so his past victims can slaughter William and Simms can drag him to hell, always with his signature wit, charm and brutal ends for the deserving damned.
• Narm:
  • Carl was a vile and abusive scumbag. But Carl hopping over the stairway banister gives brief hilarity to an otherwise horrific scene.
  • WELCOME TO HELL, motherfuckerssss! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
  • The appearance of Carl in that Cringe Comedy moment above. Might've been genuinely disturbing if we never saw it.
• Narm Charm: The aforementioned line from Simms, which manages to devour the scenery so intensely it loops back around to being awesome. The fact the actual design of Simms' true form is pretty damn good helps.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The dolls. Jesus H. Tap-dancing Christ, the dolls. The mural featuring said dolls does not help matters,
  • Newton melting into and becoming the mural. However, it is a rather nice effect.
  • The entirety of "Boys Do Get Bruised", a Real Life example (minus the voodoo drawings, of course). Helped immensely by David Alan Grier's performance as the loathsome and evil Carl.
  • The "Born II Die" sequence in "Hard Core Convert", with its mixture of actual photos and video of KKK handiwork and stylized footage of gangbangers blowing each other away.
  • And of course the ending of the wraparound tale "Welcome to My Mortuary" and the film as a whole, as the gangstas realize they've been dead and in Hell the entire time, and begin their eternal torment.
• The Woobie: The dead little girl. She politely points out that she was only playing in her room when the stray bullets got her. To a lesser extent, Walter.

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