Movie Review The Crow

The Crow 

Directed by Rupert Sanders 

Written by Zach Baylin, William Schneider 

Starring Bill Skarsgard, FKA Twigs, Danny Huston 

Release Date August 23rd, 2024 

Published August 23rd, 2024 

What the hell just happened? I saw The Crow last night, as I write this, and the nausea induced by the movie has only begun to subside. Legitimately, I became nauseated by The Crow. Not because the movie is overly gross, I’ve recently watched Caligula, my stomach is damn near bulletproof. No, the queasiness induced by The Crow comes from my poor brain trying to piece together what the hell happened in this movie. The Crow is incomprehensible. The basic pieces are decipherable, but the details are so fragmented, it’s like trying to assemble a puzzle from the pieces from a dozen different puzzles, none of which has all of its pieces. 

On a base level, Bill Skarsgard is Eric. He falls in love with Shelly (FKA Twigs). They are both murdered, maybe? He comes back to life, perhaps(?). It may have something to do with Crows? I think. He enacts a violent revenge on people who may or may not be responsible for killing him and Shelly. I have to qualify these statements because the end of the film may or may not indicate that the whole thing was a dream or, perhaps, a Jacob’s Ladder scenario crafted by someone who may not know what a Jacob’s Ladder scenario is.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.