<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $6,000,000 (estimated) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $11,797,927 (USA) </Td> </Tr> <P> Tales from the Hood is a 1995 horror anthology film directed by Rusty Cundieff and executive - produced by Spike Lee . The film presents four short urban - themed horror stories centered on concepts such as police brutality, domestic abuse, racism and gang violence; all presented within a frame story of three drug dealers buying some "found" drugs from an eccentric and story - prone funeral director . </P> <P> In South Central Los Angeles, a trio gang of drug dealers, Stack (Joe Torry), Ball (De'Aundre Bonds) and Bulldog (Samuel Monroe Jr .), arrive at Simms' Funeral Home to purchase some drugs from Mr. Simms (Clarence Williams III), the mortuary's eccentric owner . Mr. Simms claims that he found the drugs in an alley and has them safely stored in the mortuary . He asks the dealers to help him get the drugs and, as the four make their way through the building, relates stories about some of his recent "customers". The first casket contains the body of a man named Clarence . </P>

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