Tales from the Hood is a 1995 horror drama anthology film directed by Rusty Cundieff and executive-produced by Spike Lee.
The film presents four short urban-themed horror stories based on problem concepts that affect the African-American community in the order of police corruption, domestic abuse, institutional racism and gang violence; all presented within a frame story of three drug dealers buying some “found” drugs from an eccentric and story-prone funeral director.
A creepy mortician, Mr. Simms (Clarence Williams III), attempts to scare teenage drug dealer Stack (Joe Torry) and his friends straight by telling them four horrifying stories. One is about a guilt-riddled cop (Anthony Griffith) who goes crazy after ignoring his corrupt partner (Michael Massee). He also tells of a meek schoolboy (Brandon Hammond) with terrifying supernatural powers. Although the young thugs want to take their drugs and escape Mr. Simms, he still has more tales to tell.
The segment plots of the movie are:
Welcome to My Mortuary (beginning)
Rogue Cop Revelation
Boys Do Get Bruised
KKK Comeuppance
Hard-Core Convert
Welcome to My Mortuary (ending)
Clip from Rogue Cop Revelation
Welcome to My Mortuary (ending)
Tales from the Hood 2 is an American horror anthology film directed by Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott and executive-produced by Spike Lee. The film is the sequel to Cundieff and Scott’s 1995 horror anthology Tales from the Hood. The segments “Good Golly”, “The Sacrifice”, and “Robo Hell” were directed by Rusty Cundieff. The segments “The Medium” and “Date Night” were directed by Darin Scott.
Robo Hell (beginning)
At some unknown time in the future, Dumas Beach is a prison operator who is constructing an army of AI “Robo Patriots” which can learn from firsthand experience as well as from secondhand stories and function as law enforcement officers. He recruits the great storyteller Mr. Simms (Keith David) to fill their heads with information from his stories to help them better determine who is a criminal and thereby fill his prisons, suggesting “Black Lives Matter” as the theme.
The segment plots are:
Good Golly
The Medium
Date Night
The Sacrifice
Robo Hell (ending)
Here’s the storyline of Good Golly:
White siblings Audrey and Philip and their black friend Zoe take a trip together. While Philip is rock climbing, Audrey and Zoe visit a place called the Museum of Negrosity housing an assortment of racist propaganda such as posters, books, and dolls. Audrey wishes to buy a golliwog doll named “Golly Gee” for her collection but is informed by the owner of its use as a tool of racial propaganda and told that nothing in the museum is for sale. That night the girls return with Audrey’s brother Philip to steal the doll but break its glass display case when they knock over a whipping post. They find the book Golliwog Goes to Hell but notice that all of the pages after the first page are blank. The doll comes to life and grows to human size then kills Zoe with a guillotine and Philip by whipping him to death. Audrey tells Golly Gee that she loves him and expresses her desire to simply stay with him. Months later, Audrey is ready to give birth and tells the owner of the museum that she wishes to go to a hospital for the delivery for the sake of the child but the owner says that he would not be able to explain the situation. Multiple golliwog dolls then burst out of her stomach. The owner of the museum commiserates with Golly Gee, telling him, “How dare they call you a stereotype? You’re just the creation they designed you to be!” As more Gollys are born, Audrey dies.
Clip from Good Golly:
Robo Hell (ending)