Urban Menace is a 1999 American horror film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Snoop Dogg, Big Pun, Ice-T and Fat Joe.
Plot
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.
[ Urban Menace (1999), Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved July 31, 2017.][ Urban Menace (1999) (V), Movie Review Query Engine, retrieved July 31, 2017.][Robin R. Means Coleman, Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present, New York: Routledge, 2011, , p. 200.]
Cast
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Snoop Dogg as "Preacher" Caleb
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Big Pun as "Crow"
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Ice-T as The Narrator
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Fat Joe as "Terror"
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T. J. Storm as King
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Vincent Klyn as "Shadow"
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Romany Malco as "Syn"
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Tahitia Hicks as Holt (Tahitia)
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Eva La Dare as Jolene (Karen Dyer)
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Ernie Hudson Jr. as "No Dice"
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Jahi J.J. Zuri as "Cool D"
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Rob Ladesich as Harper
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Michael Walde-Berger as Harper's Boss
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Michaela Polakovicova as Hooker
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Ed Satterwhite as Crow's Posse
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Jason Stapleton as Crow's Posse
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Lubo Salater as Crow's Posse
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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.
[Douglas Pratt, Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!, New York: Harbor, 2004, , p. 1299.]
Reception
The film was regarded as low-quality; the DVD provides an option of skipping it and simply listening to Ice-T rapping.
[ However, one critic praised the hip-hop and rap soundtrack and crisp sound effects.][
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