The Crow remake has been slammed as ‘gore porn’ by fans of the original, calling it a film ‘no one asked for’.
Bill Skarsgard stars as Eric Draven/The Crow while FKA twigs plays his fiancée Shelly Webster in the upcoming thriller about their tragic love story and tale of revenge.
The story follows the soulmates as they are brutally murdered by dangerous people from Shelly’s dark past, and given the chance to save her, Eric sacrifices himself and becomes The Crow.
The teaser was released on Thursday just weeks after first look images to tease the forthcoming reboot, a modern reimagining of the original graphic novel created by James O’Barr.
The movie is a remake of the 1994 cult classic film starring Bruce Lee’s son Brandon Lee, who was tragically killed on set in a prop gun accident.
The Crow remake has been slammed as ‘gore porn’ by fans of the original, calling it a film ‘no one asked for’
Bill Skarsgard stars as Eric Draven/The Crow while FKA twigs plays his fiancée Shelly Webster in the upcoming thriller about their tragic love story and tale of revenge
But fans of the original are not happy with the remake after watching the trailer.
Taking to X, one user wrote: ‘I think the only reason The Crow movie got any traction at all was because of the tragedy of Brendan Lee. The new one is just gore porn, Jon Whick made by people without talent.
Another added: ‘Really not sold on The Crow remake. CGI looks bad.’
A third penned: ‘I see people saying it will be good because of the gore. I LOVE gore but I don’t think it’s what The Crow should be remembered for.’
A fourth wrote: ‘I’m sure that’s a ton of talent and work gone into The Corw but it’s a remake literally no one was asking for. There’s not a single fan of the original who wanted this. Looks to be entirely sold on blood, gore and Skarksgard’s abs.’
Another fan who didn’t hold back added: ‘The new Crow movie looks awfuk. The gore and fight scenes look creative, but everything else about the trailer is trash. Thank God I still have the original, which I just recently watched. Still holds up perfectly.’
A sixth user wrote: ‘Having watched The Crow a week ago I can say this looks like hot garbage compared to the original.’
Over three decades after the real-life tragedy, Bill is now taking on the role and playing the part of a heavily-tattooed and hunky Eric Draven, who becomes a vengeful man after losing his beloved Shelly — played by FKA Twigs, whose full name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett.
Fans of the original are not happy with the remake after watching the trailer.
He is resurrected from the dead and goes in a killing spree to avenge his lover after she was murdered by an assassin, who is played by Danny Huston, 61.
The trailer begins with a romantic and steamy montage of moments between Eric and Shelly as they reminisce on the beginning of their love story.
‘What’s the first thing you liked about me?’ he asks her as they curl up in blankets on a rooftop, ignoring the beauty of city skyline at night and bask in each other.
‘I thought that you were quite brilliantly broken,’ Shelly answers as a flashback plays of their prison jumpsuit-clad, love-at-first-sight moment in penitentiary.
Cut to present time, and the lovebirds have been celebrating their release together in bed.
‘You feel like my person,’ he says in an audio clip laid over a steamy montage of them together as Shelly repeats it back to him.
Eric and Shelly are then seen in the bath together as he prompts the question: ‘What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?’
The trailer begins with a steamy montage of moments between Eric and Shelly as they reminisce on the beginning of their love story. ‘What’s the first thing you liked about me?’ he asks her as they curl up in blankets on a rooftop
Cut to present time, and the lovebirds have been celebrating their prison release together
The trailer shows steamy moments of the on-screen couple in bed together
One scene shows their characters Eric and Shelly admiring each other in bed
A sexy scene with a lingerie-clad Shelly (FKA Twigs) is seen straddling Eric
‘You feel like my person,’ he says in an audio clip laid over a steamy montage of them together as Shelly repeats it back to him
Eric and Shelly are then seen in the bath together as he prompts the question: ‘What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?’
She admits she was a witness to a tragedy. ‘I saw things,’ she answered as the scene foreshadows the tragic twist to come. ‘I shouldn’t have seen any of it.’
The trailer then shows Shelly walking through the rainy city on dark and foreboding streets, realizing she is being followed
‘I saw things,’ she answered as the scene foreshadows the tragic twist to come. ‘I shouldn’t have seen any of it.’
The trailer then shows Shelly walking through the rainy city on dark and foreboding streets, realizing she is being followed.
Eric later returns homes as mannequins, or so they seem, are shown with plastic bags over their heads.
Horrifyingly, he finds Shelly being tied down by two men as she screams for help.
The couple are killed together, staring into each other’s eyes in terror, as the murderers strangle them to death with the same plastic bags.
‘When someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead,’ the narrator reads. ‘But sometimes something so bad happens that the soul cannot rest until you put the wrong things right.’
‘You were given the power of a god, but you’re running out of time to save her.’
Eric is resurrected and goes on a killing spree, seeking bloody and merciless revenge for losing his beloved.
Eric later returns homes as mannequins, or so they seem, are shown with plastic bags over their heads
Horrifyingly, he finds Shelly being tied down by two men as she screams for help
The couple are killed together, staring into each other’s eyes in terror, as the murderers strangle them to death with the same plastic bags
He cried out for her, and because he watched her die, his soul cannot rest
In order to save his beloved, he sacrifices himself and is resurrected as The Crow
His body is seen being pushed into a pool of water surrounded by crows
He emerges as the antihero, rife with grief and ready for revenge
He had black tears running down his eyes
‘I’m gonna kill them,’ he said in a chilling scene. ‘Every single one of ’em.’
He later approaches a man in a car and points a gun in the killer’s face.
‘I killed you,’ the man says with only a hint of surprise. Eric responds: ‘Yeah, you did.’
When the superiors behind the order to kill realize The Crow is coming for them, they consult each other: ‘We have a problem. He came for us.’
Meanwhile, Eric applies black paint under his eyes and fully transforms into the superhero.
‘The first impulse, anger,’ Laura Birn’s character explains before another woman stops her and says that ‘it’s not anger, it’s love’ as to why Eric has been resurrected and stirred into action.
He begins hunting down the killers to avenge his lover
The trailer previewed the many gory and chilling scenes as he takes out his enemies
He later approaches a man in a car and points a gun in the killer’s face. ‘I killed you,’ the man says with only a hint of surprise. Eric responds: ‘Yeah, you did.’
After killing the henchmen, he applies black paint under his eyes before he goes after the superiors who made the order to kill
He fully transformed into the antihero and looked unrecognizable
He was seen examining his new look with a bone-chilling stare
When they realize The Crow is coming for them, they consult each other: ‘We have a problem. He came for us.’
‘The first impulse, anger,’ Laura Birn’s character explains to Huston’s before another woman stops her and says that ‘it’s not anger, it’s love’ as to why Eric has been resurrected and stirred into action
He takes out more henchmen easily as he is now invincible
As The Crow, he is seen dripping in blood after the violent scenes
The Crow is slated for a theatrical release later this year on June 7
When Eric as The Crow finally comes face-to-face with Shelly’s killer, he is told: ‘Look what you’ve become. You know that love promises only pain. You have no idea what hell awaits you.’ The Crow insists: ‘No, I do.’
The trailer concludes with the haunting voice of Shelly asking him in the past before their lives were turned upside-down: ‘How many people have you loved?
It ends on his shadow as he walks away through a dark and ominous tunnel with a crow on his heel.
The Crow is slated for a theatrical release later this year on June 7.
