1994 · action · fantasy · gothic
The Crow
Directed by Alex Proyas1h 42m1994
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.
Our read: The Crow (1994) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · gothic entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
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“You want gothic rain, revenge poetry, and a cult nineties mood.”
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