The Crow (2024)

Plot of The Crow:  Vincent Roeg is a music connoisseur and demonic sorcerer who says he has been given the opportunity of eternal life in return for sending pure souls to hell. Shelley is a young women who has received a video from a friend showing one of the murders carried out by Roeg, and therefore he wishes to dispose of her. In any case Shelley’s mother has already given up the daughters soul to Roeg for riches in return. Shelley is sent to a rehab centre where she meets Eric similarly afflicted by drug addiction and more. When Shelley sees Roeg’s assistant in the facility she and Eric escape and hope up in the luxury apartment owned by one of her friends. They are soon located and killed by Roeg’s men. Eric finds himself in a sort of abandoned railway station with a bearded man who tell shim that he must kill everyone who had been involved in Shelley’s death in order to revive her. Hence, he goes on a mission of bloody revenge, finding that he cannot be killed although he continues to suffer pain.

Content: Shelley and Eric become friends and then lovers, and she gets down to her underwear at least once. They have a period of enjoying high living in her friend’s apartment. Roeg show himself to be evil by inducing women to kill themselves more than once, apparently fulfilling the requirement to send souls to hell.  Eric wakes up in the former railway yard and is guided by a bearded man, Kronos, on what he has got to do next. He returns to the real world, and despite his lack of skill as a killer has the advantage of not being killed even though shot multiple times. Later he find a samurai sword with which he creates mayhem, particularly at an opera where he terminates a lot of people, beheading some. It has an 18 rating in UK, and parents should be aware.

A View: If there is an advantage in this film the plot was pretty easy to follow. But it was always up against the original 1994 version during the filming of which Brandon Lee was killed by an accidental firearm discharge. The film did not make any money and was nominated for “Worst Remake” at the Razzies. It was extremely violent after an extensive first act. It took an hour to set the plot up which was a bit tiring. But it was interesting to see a Lotus Esprit in the cast, as a sort of alternative reality vehicle. Even so, not really a watch for nothing on a slow news night.

Fun Fact: This movie has been in Development Hell since 2008. You could not make it up.