The Crow: Wicked Prayer

"Passion..Revenge...Eternity."

2005 1h 39m EN

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After ex-con Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered by a biker gang, he is resurrected by the power of The Crow to avenge their deaths and reunite with her in the afterlife.

“Passion..Revenge...Eternity.”

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Cast

Edward Furlong
Jimmy Cuervo / The Crow
Tara Reid
Lola Byrne
David Boreanaz
Luc Crash / Death / Satan
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Lilly
Dennis Hopper
El Niño
Marcus Chong
War
Tito Ortiz
Famine
Yuji Okumoto
Pestilence

Credits

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Director: Lance Mungia
Writers: Jeff Most, Lance Mungia, Sean Hood
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 21 years ago.

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2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Crow Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Lance Mungia, shot by Kurt Brabbee. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Jamie Christopherson. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Dean Holland shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

RUNTIME

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Edward Furlong and Tara Reid and David Boreanaz carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Passion..Revenge...Eternity.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0353324 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Lance Mungia directs. Kurt Brabbee behind the camera. Jamie Christopherson scores. Dean Holland cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 21 years ago.
2Part of the "The Crow Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Lance Mungia, shot by Kurt Brabbee. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Jamie Christopherson. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Dean Holland shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Edward Furlong and Tara Reid and David Boreanaz carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Passion..Revenge...Eternity.".
8IMDB entry: tt0353324 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 24 themes, including "martial arts", "superhero", "supernatural", "black magic".
10Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Kurt Brabbee
Original score: Jamie Christopherson
Editing: Dean Holland
Makeup / hair: Karrieann Heisner Sillay
Sound: Steven Avila
Stunt coordinator: Gary Paul
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $8,000,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
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IMDB rating: 3/10 · 10,338 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

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Part of

The Crow Collection

A series of movies where the lead character is murdered and then brought back to life to avenge their death. Their return to the world of the living is heralded by a crow.

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tmdb280390232022-09-04
★ 3/10
Sooner rather than later every franchise ends up, by design or accident, a parody of itself; The Crow: Wicked Prayer never stood a chance of avoiding this fate, but then what movie starring Eddie Furlong, David Boreanaz, Tara Reid, and Danny Trejo would? On the other hand, we have Dennis Hopper as a pimp named El Nino who says things like "You stole daddy's car keys, but you can't handle the horsepower," so it's not a total loss. We know that the Crow, like the Dude, must face a gang of nihilists; in this case a multi-ethnic gang whose members each identify with one of the Four Horsemen: Luc 'Death' Crash, War (Marcus Chong), Famine (Tito Ortiz), and Pestilence (Yuji Okumoto). None of them really do anything thematically tied to their noms de guerre, so I guess they just thought they sounded cool. By the way, in a group of characters with thematic names, sometimes one just doesn't fit the pattern (a trope known as Aerith and Bob); in this case that would be Lola (Reid), Luc's girlfriend. Luc is the "leader of a satanic cult" whose "motive" is that his "father [was] killed by an Indian." This doesn't make much sense until we discover that Moses (Richard Cumba), the "Indian" who murdered Luc's father, is a priest of some religious denomination — Catholic in appearance but that allows its priests to marry and have children, and to which also belongs father Harold (Trejo), whose daughter Lilly (Emmanuelle Chriqui) is the girlfriend of Jimmy Cuervo (Furlong), who is on parole after serving a prison sentence for killing a rapist, who happened to be Moses’s son. It’s a small world, indeed. War, Famine, Pestilence, and Lola help Luc escape from prison, and the five proceed to ritualistically murder Jimmy and Lilly; the rest, as they say, is history: Jimmy returns from the afterlife to exact revenge on his killers one by one, reserving for them such cruel and unusual punishments as death-by-bug zapper. Oddly enough, no one besides Jimmy seems interested in pursuing the escaped convict whose gang leaves a trail of blood wherever they go. Then again, this is a movie that uses the word “Aztec” to refer to a Native American tribe. All things considered, I’m tempted to believe that TC: WP's self-parody is intentional; for example, Luc offering his henchmen a banquet consisting of deviled ham, deviled eggs, and devil's cake “al flambeau”. I'm not saying it is to The Crow what Army of Darkness is to The Evil Dead but, incoherent or not, it's the only one apart from the original that’s even close to watchable.
r96sk2024-09-05
★ 5/10
So ridiculous that it's kinda watchable. <em>'The Crow: Wicked Prayer'</em> is not a good movie. However, it commits so hard to what it wants to do that I was kinda locked on to just see where it would go next. It particularly goes off the rails towards the conclusion, especially with David Boreanaz's Luc. There are many, many issues with this 2005 release, but I honestly didn't hate viewing it. I think what helps (relatively speaking) is that there are quite a few familiar faces on the cast, which definitely keeps you watching - or it does for me, at least. You have the aforementioned Boreanaz, as well as Tara Reid, Danny Trejo and Dennis Hopper. Emmanuelle Chriqui is in there too. The main face that I didn't know of was actually Edward Furlong, who plays the titular character. Furlong's performance isn't, like the film in general, anything worth praising. Again though, he proper goes for it so his onscreen presence never annoyed me. Nothing about this really irritated me to be honest, it's just plainly obvious from pretty much the get-go that the flick isn't anything all that good so I guess my expectations were low. I'd rather rewatch this than <em>'The Crow: City of Angels'</em>, so that's something. Eager to now see how this year's reboot does things.