Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Crow by James O'Barr

7 reviews

matt4hire's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death, Drug abuse, Self harm, Murder, Violence, Gore, Drug use, and Cursing

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Racial slurs

goobslayer9019_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I fell in love with the movie so I decided to read the comic books! It is definitely different than the movie but I think the theme and the heart is exactly the same! I was very moved and I did not want it to end! I genuinely felt heartbroken when it ended!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Gore, Sexual assault, Racism, and Murder

acetheticallyy's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual assault

doubleberger's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Sometimes sad boy shit is good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Gore, Cursing, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Drug abuse, and Drug use

perthalus's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

Why couldn't she just get revenge for herself? Why did he have to get revenge for her? She succumbed to a fate like that just for someone else to get revenge for her? Well hey, at least the art style was incredible, just a shame the writing was that of a high school edge-lord's. 

Edit: I watched the film after reading this and honestly, I prefer the graphic novel to the film. I still stand by my criticisms of the book, but it really fits for what it is. It’s an honest and raw response to the scum of the world. It’s flawed and blinded by its anger, which is what makes it unique, even if it’s not amazing.

Like I said, the art is beautiful and helps create the bleak landscape of the city and the depraved lives of the characters. One thing I preferred to the film was how Fun Boy’s character was written. In the film he dies in the bedroom scene pretty quickly, but in the book you get an incredibly dark though admittedly quite edgy scene that adds a layer of introspection, like a thought breaking through all that mindless anger.

Another thing I liked that I surprisingly didn’t at first was how there were no stakes. In the film, the stakes help it be a film, but in the book it makes it feel more like a statement than a struggle, but I think both stand on their own.

A pretty cool, but unfortunately quite edgy explosion of emotions and anger. It’s slightly juvenile yet beautifully flawed and gothic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Cursing, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, and Animal cruelty

sinisterbeard's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Torture, Vomit, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Medical content, Hate crime, Gun violence, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Cursing, Child abuse, Car accident, Suicide, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, Alcohol, and Ableism

colombian_gothic's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

While "The Crow" takes a path way counter to most hero journeys, in doing this it creates a much more interesting story because of its complexities. The story of the crow doesn't follow the heroes journey of a man facing a difficult obstacle he must overcome to get to his goal, (without giving too much away) Eric's goal in this story is pretty much unobstructed and completely attainable. At first this bothered me because this means no one is a threat to him or his journey, but throughout the book you realize that's not true, the person most a danger to him is himself. As a result, "The Crow" is less so about a revenge spree, but about the anger and hurt that you have to keep alive to stay motivated to do these things in the first place. Over all it's a beautifully all be it dark story about letting go of pain, processing grief and what that does to a person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug use, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Self harm