In an exciting story about a young man named Eric Draven, a rock musician who was killed with his fiancée, Chile, by a group of thugs and raiders who terrorize the rundown city they live in. A year after his death, mystical ambiguity appears in Eric's grave. The crow is guided to his killers Tin Ten and Phony Boy the Bugger and T Bird and Skunk. Erik starts to get by, and Eric gives these thugs a tough lesson they may not have been through all their lives. Things change when their leader sends a Top-Dollar and tries to change things completely
The Crow, starring the late Brandon Lee, is like one long fright night. Even though it was photographed in color, the edge-of-darkness atmosphere descends on the audience like a shroud.
What's scary about The Crow is the story and the style itself: American Gothic, Poe-haunted nightmare, translated to the age of cyberpunk science fiction, revenge movies and outlaw rock 'n' roll, all set in a hideously decaying, crime-ridden urban hell.
Alex Proyas's pulp revenge fantasy, based on a comic-book saga by James O'Barr, is dark, moody, and seductively overwrought; it's an amazingly pure expression of morbid adolescent romanticism.
