The Crow: Wicked Prayer

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.

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Film Cast:

  • Jimmy Cuervo / The Crow: Edward Furlong
  • Lola Byrne: Tara Reid
  • Luc Crash / Death / Satan: David Boreanaz
  • Lilly: Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • El Niño: Dennis Hopper
  • War: Marcus Chong
  • Famine: Tito Ortiz
  • Pestilence: Yuji Okumoto
  • Tanner: Dave Baez
  • Mary: Rena Owen
  • Harold: Danny Trejo
  • Cara Mia: Macy Gray
  • The Priest: Rosemberg Salgado
  • Native Teen: Ryan Smith
  • Proud Foot Joe: Daymond John
  • Moses: Richard Cumba
  • Pregnant Bride: Kristina Santoro
  • Waitress #1: Kelsey Daniels
  • Waitress #2: Ashley Christensen
  • Bartender: David Lea
  • Cortez: Jorge Jimenez
  • Tribal Council #1: Gill Medina
  • Tribal Council #2: Marty Fresca
  • Cat Girl #1: Vanessa Sorensen
  • Cat Girl #2: Liz Katz
  • Cat Girl #3: Candace Rea
  • Cat Girl #4: Erin Balentine

Film Crew:

  • Screenplay: Lance Mungia
  • Novel: Norman Partridge
  • Producer: Jeff Most
  • Screenplay: Sean Hood
  • Executive Producer: Gregory G. Woertz
  • Executive Producer: Jon Katz
  • Executive Producer: Daymond John
  • Director of Photography: Kurt Brabbee
  • Original Music Composer: Jamie Christopherson
  • Casting: Amanda Mackey
  • Casting: Cathy Sandrich Gelfond
  • Casting: Sig De Miguel
  • Casting: Wendy Weidman
  • Costume Designer: Mandi Line
  • Production Designer: Fred Andrews
  • Second Unit Director: Gary Paul
  • Associate Producer: Blanca Camacho
  • Production Manager: Cassidy Lunnen
  • First Assistant Director: Rey Vincente
  • Second Assistant Director: Horst Steiner
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Bruce Bare
  • Post Production Supervisor: Douglas Salkin
  • Production Coordinator: John Goodwill
  • Production Coordinator: Terry Gaertner
  • Assistant Production Coordinator: Ivy Lukas
  • Special Effects Supervisor: Giuliano Fiumani
  • Script Supervisor: Suzzane Bingham
  • Storyboard Artist: Jonathan Hallett
  • Production Sound Mixer: Whit Norris
  • Costume Supervisor: Amy Jean Roberts
  • Key Set Costumer: Amy Fegely
  • Assistant Costume Designer: Nikki Van Pelt
  • Assistant Costume Designer: Kresta Lins
  • Wardrobe Assistant: Rebecca Hunt
  • Seamstress: Jodi Greorge
  • Seamstress: Liz Fairbairn
  • Key Makeup Artist: Karrieann Heisner Sillay
  • Key Hair Stylist: Erin Lyons
  • Additional Editing: John M. Valerio
  • Assistant Editor: Alex Blatt
  • Post Production Assistant: Ryan Growney
  • Second Unit Director of Photography: David Bridges
  • Second Unit First Assistant Director: Matthew L. Henderson
  • Script Supervisor: Jennifer Mullins
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Trip Brock
  • ADR Mixer: Michael J. Fox
  • ADR Editor: Jackie Rodman
  • Sound Effects Editor: Kurt Thum
  • Foley Mixer: Geordy Sincavage
  • Foley Editor: Peter D. Lago
  • Music Editor: Ronald J. Webb
  • Wardrobe Assistant: Shantell Guy
  • Comic Book: James O’Barr
  • Stunts: James Gregory
  • Co-Producer: Stephen Belafonte
  • Co-Producer: L.M. Kit Carson
  • Associate Producer: Beau J. Genot
  • Producer: Edward R. Pressman
  • Co-Producer: John Saviano
  • Editor: Dean Holland
  • Art Direction: Russell M. Jaeger
  • Set Decoration: Effney Gardea
  • Sound Designer: Steven Avila

Movie Reviews:

  • tmdb28039023: 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.

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