Tales from the Hood: Chill or be Chilled.

When the 1995 horror anthology Tales from the Hood premiered, it was underseen and misunderstood. Now over 25 years later, it’s four comedic and conscious tales, about issues affecting African American communities, are still tragically relevant today.

In South Central Los Angeles, three drug dealers (Joe Torry, De’Aundre Bonds, and Samuel Monroe Jr.) arrive at the eerie Simms’ Funeral Home to purchase some lost drugs from the mortuary’s peculiar owner, Mr. Simms (Clarence Williams III). He asks the trio to help him retrieve the drugs from the basement. As the eccentric mortician guides them deeper and deeper into the bowels of his funeral parlor, he tells them four stories about the recently deceased, each stranger and more honest than the last… read more >