The 16 Scariest Black Horror Story Characters

Tales from the Hood (1995)

In “Tales From the Hood,” funeral director (Clarence Williams III) tells three drug dealers about four stories of horror with African-American themes of race, brutality and racism while he trapped them in his funeral home.

The first story (“Rough Cop Revelation”) is about police brutality and racial profiling. A young Black officer, Clarence Smith, (Anthony Griffith) watches as three White officers beat and shot the heroine into a civil rights councilman Martin Moorehouse (Tom Wright). They set up his death, but he comes back as zombie with the help of the drunken-ex-cop Smith and exact vengeance on the racist cops.

The second story, “Boys Do Get Bruised,” is about a boy (Brandon Hammond) who draws monstrous pictures of his mother’s boyfriend (David Alan Grier). The man turned out to be abusive — beating the boy and his mother until his teacher (Rusty Cundieff) helped fight him off. And the boy tears up the pictures he drew of the monstrous man to destroy him.

The third story (KKK Comeuppance) is about ex-KKK member and southern senator (Cobin Bernsen) being protested by Jewish and African-American groups. His headquarters is at a slave plantation house. One protester warns that the plantation is haunted by a hoodoo witch and her animated dolls with the souls of tortured slaves, who, in fact, go on to torture the former klansman.

The three drug dealers realize the fourth story is about a gang member they shot dead, and the funeral director reveals himself as the devil and explains that some of the gang member’s boys killed them in retaliation. He revealed their bodies in caskets and confirming they weren’t in a funeral home after all, but hell.