The Crow(2024)
2024 · Rupert Sanders · 111 min
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Action · Fantasy · Horror
5.81.3k votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How The Crow scares
The story moves in two distinct gears: a slower, moody build focused on love and loss, then a long, brutal stretch of stylized violence once the revenge plot kicks in. It leans more into dark fantasy and action than traditional scares, so don't expect creeping dread or jump scares. The blood and brutality are front and center, but the fear here is more about grief and rage than being hunted or haunted. It plays best for people who want a moody, violent, doomed-romance revenge story rather than a horror movie meant to unsettle you.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Crow rates psychological 2/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 2 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 30 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 12 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 55 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
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A slow romantic build-up gives way to escalating violence that peaks hard in the final act.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4.
How scary is The Crow?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, The Crow rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It attacks the body more than the mind — physical, in-your-face horror. Expect it to be heavy on gore and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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