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The Crow

The Crow

1994
102 min
Fantasy Action Thriller

Plot Summary

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.

7.5
IMDb Rating
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Ratings & Reviews

7.5
IMDb Rating

Technical Details

102 min
Runtime
1994-05-11
Release Date
Movie
Content Type
1994
Year
Genres
Fantasy Action Thriller

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User Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7.0/10
Recent

Well if you though it was wet on "Blade Runner" (1982) then welcome to a ruined city where the torrential rain never seems to stop. A series of flashbacks tells us that two graves hold the bodies of a young couple about to be married. That's before local kingpin "Top Dollar" (Michael Wincott), who had designs on their building, sent his henchmen to "coax" them out. A year after this tragedy a crow alights on the grave of "Eric" (Brandon Lee) and enlivens his corpse so that he may avenge the brut...

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r96sk

r96sk

9.0/10
Recent

Great! All the more impressive given offscreen events. The awful behind the scenes stuff with lead Brandon Lee was all that I knew about <em>'The Crow'</em>; I only learned it was a superhero flick in the lead-up to watching it, I had always assumed it was a straight up horror. No better time to watch it, what with the reboot out now... gotta see the sequels first! There is a strong performance from Lee in there, Ernie Hudson is also someone I enjoyed in this. The rest of those onscreen ar...

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John Chard

John Chard

9.5/10
Recent

The Crow (1994) I hadn't seen it for about ten years and as the full moon came beaming through my apartment window late last night, it just felt right to indulge in some Proyas Gothic excellence. The question still taps away at all our doors, namely would the film be the cult classic it became without the Brandon Lee tragedy? That's a tricky one to answer because we all deep down have a morbid curiosity about us, especially with films and their stars. This is why I got a lot more from re...

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