Dominant worldview and other ideological content/elements:

Strong pagan worldview with strong false religion/theology and strong occult elements, however mixed with some Christian and moral elements including some Christian symbols and metaphors in a dark battle against demonic evil that posits a world where sometimes a dead person with intense feelings of love for another human or other deceased people can come back to life and set things right, in a story about an evil man who made a pact with the devil and killed a young man’s “soulmate”, the young man comes back to life to get justice for his beloved and save them both from hell, and the film generates sympathy for the hero who defeats the evil villain and saves his beloved, but something goes wrong and the young man is doomed to never get back together with his beloved after her resurrection and so he sacrifices himself to be damned to save her but he still hopes that they will be reunited one day in heaven or the afterlife, Furthermore, some romantic ideas of innocence and love are mixed into the content of the film’s worldview;

Swear words:

At least 39 obscenities (including many words starting with “F”) and one serious swear word in the name of Jesus;

Force:

A great deal of extreme violence (some of the most brutal we’ve ever seen in MOVIEGUIDE® history), and some strong scenes of violence include the capture and suffocation of two young lovers with two plastic bags in a fairly graphic scene, and the title character brutally shoots many villains, the most brutal of these deaths occur in a long fight in the foyer of an opera house during an opera performance in which the title character comes back to life and cannot be killed, the stabbing of many villains with a samurai sword, and brutal shootings of villains including inserting the sword into one villain’s mouth and splitting another villain’s head, villains shoot the title character several times but she cannot be killed despite stumbling and falling many times and then getting back up, villain stabs title character through the chest with his own sword but title character survives, title character breaks several Villain arms and legs, villain shoots a friend of the title character through the head, brutal fight between the title character and the main villain, people descending into deep water that is supposed to symbolically lead them to hell. The main villain has made a pact with Satan to send “innocent” victims to hell so he can live forever. One scene shows the main villain whispering something to a young woman, leading her to brutally kill another young woman (this is supposedly how the villain makes the “innocent” girls he lures fit for hell).

Sex:

Depicted scene of fornication in two shots and an example of implied fornication;

Nudity:

Naked men having sex from behind and some pictures of men’s bare torsos;

Smoking and/or drug use and abuse:

No tobacco use, but two scenes in which marijuana is obviously smoked and one scene in which a young man and a young woman take an illegal pill of some kind; and

Various immoralities:

The villain has made a pact with the devil, the villain commands a criminal enterprise, the villain deceives young people in order to corrupt them and gain new victims for Satan.

THE CROW (2024) is a reboot of a 1994 film about a supernatural avenger who rises from the grave to seek justice for himself and his soulmates, who were murdered by an evil man who made a pact with the devil to corrupt innocent souls and send them to hell. Based on a 1989 comic book series, THE CROW has a strong, slightly mixed pagan worldview with false theology and occult themes, combined with some light Christian moral content, lots of strong foul language, some sexual immorality, and some of the most extreme and brutal violence MOVIEGUIDE® has ever seen in a film.

The film begins with a young woman named Shelly fleeing from the henchman of an evil man named Vincent. Vincent has made a pact with the devil to corrupt the souls of innocent young people and send them to hell in exchange for immortality. Vincent prefers young women, especially aspiring musicians.

Shelly finds refuge in a secluded juvenile offenders facility, where she falls in love with a tattooed young man named Eric. However, Vincent’s henchmen, with the help of Shelly’s corrupt mother, discover her whereabouts, so Eric helps Shelly escape the facility. Unfortunately, Vincent eventually manages to track her down, and his men suffocate Eric and Shelly with plastic bags in a disturbing murder scene.

Eric imagines him and Shelly falling to the bottom of the sea. But suddenly he wakes up in a train yard surrounded by crows. A mysterious older man tells Eric that sometimes something so bad happens when a person dies that the soul “cannot find peace until you put the wrong things right.”

Eric vows to kill all the people involved in Shelly’s murder. The older man promises that if Eric keeps his love for Shelly “pure,” they can both come back from the dead.

A violent battle between Eric’s and Vincent’s troops breaks out on the streets of New York, culminating in an opera house and Vincent’s country estate.

THE CROW is a formulaic revenge thriller with touches of gothic horror. It has a strong pagan worldview with elements of false religion and occultism. These are mixed with some Christian allusions and symbolism, as well as romantic Christian ideas of innocence and self-sacrificing love. THE CROW also contains a lot of strong foul language, brief sexual immorality, and some of the most extreme and brutal scenes of violence MOVIEGUIDE® has ever seen in a film.