The Crow is the story of Eric Draven (played by the late Brandon Lee in his final role) , a rock guitarist, who's is murdered after he walks in on the rape of his fiancee, who later dies in hospital after 30 hours of pain, by a gang on the infamous "Devil's Night". A year later Eric is brought back to life by a supernatural crow and tracks down and kills each gang member in the order they had raped and beaten his fiancee.
The film is based upon the graphic novel written by James O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his wife at the hands of a drunk driver. Although the film does deviate from the graphic novel it remainsfairly faithful. It is a beautifully dark and tradgic film and trannfers the graphic novel's gothic, depressive and yet strangely up-lifting qualities that makes it so great.
This film has become a cult icon and rightly so in my eyes, I can certainly recommend it for our top ten.
The crow is a poor example of a cult film. The only real reason that this series gained any notoriety is because of the martyrization of Brandon Lee. The story leaves a lot to be desired and never ventures further than "vengeance, vengeance, brooding vengeance". There is no real tension in the movie as Lee's character survives onslaughts of bullets and various other wounds as if he were hit by a timid wind. All in all, if Brandon Lee survived the filming of this flick, it would have been forgotten and lost amongst the ocean of similar over the top action flicks being released at the time.
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