The Crow: The O’Barr Edit - Suicidal Wombat Productions (2007 ?)

“It’s not death if you refuse it”

An interesting edit which focuses The Crow on Eric’s assassinations, largely cutting out the subplots inovolving the kid and the cop and greatly simplifying the story, so that the film more closely follows the comics. Suicidal Wombat Productions also adds a bunch of text (I’m assuming from the comics), renders the whole thing in B&W - which adds to the noir feel of the film, and is also faithful to the comics - and breaks the edit into “books”. Only problem here really is Brandon Lee’s cringy line delivery. Still a fun watch if you enjoy the original, and only 45 minutes long. There’s also a rescored flashback sequence which is quite well executed.

Editing is fairly sloppy, in particular when transitioning between the books, but also throughout. It’s not so bad as to ruin the edit, still definitely worth a watch if you want a version more faithful to the comics and with less filler.

If anyone’s interested in this let me know, I’ve got no clue where I got it from but I’d be happy to upload.

Technical details: It’s an old edit so the video quality is fairly low, and the video is letterboxed and pillarboxed. 2.77 GB file size. 7.3 mb/s video bitrate (variable), 480p, 29.97 fps (CFR). 192 kb/s audio bitrate (variable), 2.0 audio.