Urban Menace is a 1999 American horror film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Snoop Dogg, Big Pun, Ice-T and Fat Joe.
Plot After a church burning in which a preacher and his family are killed, the preacher's insane ghost (Snoop Dogg) starts killing off the members of the gang responsible.Urban Menace (1999), Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved July 31, 2017.Urban Menace (1999) (V), Movie Review Query Engine, retrieved July 31, 2017.Robin R. Means Coleman, Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present, New York: Routledge, 2011, , p. 200.
Cast Snoop Dogg as "Preacher" Caleb Big Pun as "Crow" Ice-T as The Narrator Fat Joe as "Terror" T. J. Storm as King Vincent Klyn as "Shadow" Romany Malco as "Syn" Tahitia Hicks as Holt (Tahitia) Eva La Dare as Jolene (Karen Dyer) Ernie Hudson Jr. as "No Dice" Jahi J.J. Zuri as "Cool D" Rob Ladesich as Harper Michael Walde-Berger as Harper's Boss Michaela Polakovicova as Hooker Ed Satterwhite as Crow's Posse Jason Stapleton as Crow's Posse Lubo Salater as Crow's Posse Robert Ughoro as Caleb's Posse
Production Director Pyun shot Urban Menace simultaneously with The Wrecking Crew and Corrupt in a derelict factory in Eastern Europe, originally intending Urban Menace and The Wrecking Crew as sections of a single film; the producers decided to make two films. The budget only permitted two stuntmen, making deaths repetitive. Pyun often superimposed the stars' faces onto stand-ins. Half the finished film was lost in transit, requiring substitution of rough duplicate footage; large parts of Urban Menace are in black and white and the photography is often blurry.Douglas Pratt, Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!, New York: Harbor, 2004, , p. 1299.
Reception The film was regarded as low-quality; the DVD provides an option of skipping it and simply listening to Ice-T rapping. However, one critic praised the hip-hop and rap soundtrack and crisp sound effects.
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