Urban Menace
- Hannah Blue
- Andrew Markell
- Tim Story
- Paul Rosenblum
- Tom Karnowski
- Mark Allen
- Snoop Dogg
- Big Pun
- Ice-T
- Fat Joe
- Filmwerks
- Imperial Entertainment
- 1999 (1999)
Urban Menace is a 1999 American horror film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Snoop Dogg, Big Pun, Ice-T and Fat Joe.
Premise
After a church burning in which a preacher and his family are killed, the preacher's insane ghost (Snoop Dogg) starts killing off the members of the gang responsible.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Snoop Dogg as "Preacher" Caleb
- Big Pun as "Crow"
- Ice-T as The Narrator
- Fat Joe as "Terror"
- T. J. Storm as King
- Vincent Klyn as "Shadow"
- Romany Malco as "Syn"
- Tahitia Hicks as Holt (Tahitia)
- Eva La Dare as Jolene (Karen Dyer)
- Ernie Hudson Jr. as "No Dice"
- Jahi J.J. Zuri as "Cool D"
- Rob Ladesich as Harper
- Michael Walde-Berger as Harper's Boss
- Michaela Polakovicova as Hooker
- Ed Satterwhite as Crow's Posse
- Jason Stapleton as Crow's Posse
- Lubo Salater as Crow's Posse
- Robert Ughoro as Caleb's Posse
Production
Director Pyun shot Urban Menace simultaneously with The Wrecking Crew and Corrupt in a derelict factory in Eastern Europe, originally intending Urban Menace and The Wrecking Crew as sections of a single film; the producers decided to make two films. The budget only permitted two stuntmen, making deaths repetitive. Pyun often superimposed the stars' faces onto stand-ins. Half the finished film was lost in transit, requiring substitution of rough duplicate footage; large parts of Urban Menace are in black and white and the photography is often blurry.[4]
Reception
The film was regarded as low-quality; the DVD provides an option of skipping it and simply listening to Ice-T rapping.[3] However, one critic praised the hip-hop and rap soundtrack and crisp sound effects.[4]
References
- ^ Urban Menace (1999), Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved July 31, 2017.
- ^ Urban Menace (1999) (V), Movie Review Query Engine, retrieved July 31, 2017.
- ^ a b Robin R. Means Coleman, Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present, New York: Routledge, 2011, ISBN 9780415880190, p. 200.
- ^ a b Douglas Pratt, Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!, New York: Harbor, 2004, ISBN 9781932916003, p. 1299.
External links
- Urban Menace at IMDb
- Urban Menace (1999) at AllMovie
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