Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Crow by James O'Barr

4 reviews

jsantia59's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Suicide

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

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