Oooh good question! Maybe the keeper of souls trapped them in the "doll house" and they're doomed to serve their eternity there? Idk but now you have me really thinking lol
That's why I love watching these reviews for older movies. NEVER realized no coffin for Duke! I like that some ppl think the dolls ate him so no body for a coffin. But I thought of it with more symbolism: these type of ppl and their ideology will never die!
The way the first doll put himself back together, goes to show you yea we are our ancestors, we always come back to wreck some ish. How momma and nem! 😂😂🧞♀️✨
Maybe im crazy but this one never freaked me out. Ima sucker for revenge so i watched this story with glee 😊i found myself wishing it were real & we all stood together like those dolls. This is the only story that didn't scare me.
You gotta remember, when he took the doll and tied him to the dart board he was already outside… He could have left… He tried to stand his ground not jus against the dolls but also against what the old man was saying about the souls not wanting him there…
I definitely believe dolls can hold souls cause they be looking creepy as hell especially if they was in the house of somebody that’s passed on, my granny never let dolls in her house cause she was told that. Idk if it’s a southern superstition or what but it be feeling too real imo
Eli had a fat cigar, so he was definitely someone. And can we all just clap at the part when Duke said "Can't we all just get along?", and someone replied, "HELL NA!", lol
Just a theroy: the reason there was no body in the casket is because there literaly no body. The Dolls devoured the man. there was nothing left. Duke could very well be among the denizens of hell
Yep, this is the story that STILL has my sister scared of the little Black figurines that all our mom and grandmothers had in their houses back in the 90s! I unknowingly tortured her watching this movie every night before I went to sleep. The rest of the movie she was cool with, but this story?!? This story had me waking up with her in my bed most mornings LMMFAO! But she didn't say anything about it until we were in our 30s, so I had no clue. 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ I think this was my favorite story because the dolls got their revenge in the end. Let the dolls do what the dolls gone do! Just let the dolls work. I love that!!! 😂😂😂
I guess the dolls would’ve let him go earlier, but I think the point of no return was him smashing the face of Miss Cobbs‘ portrait and her bleeding which was not only disrespectful, but assault on her, so the dolls now want Duke’s ass on a platter even if he wasn’t too stubborn and did leave after that. By then it was more about the dolls wanting vengeance than reperations with Duke.
Looking back on it now as I'm older, this part of the movie did a great analogy I overlooked when I was younger watching it the first time. Duke Metger and Rhodie (His Assistant) were basically a modernized analogy of a master and a house slave. Looking at it now it was pretty on the nose how they also cast a light skinned black person for the role which is rather clever of them. Let's look at some jobs a house slave used to do. When field slaves got out of hand, the master would usually send down the house slave to calm down the crowd and put them back on the plantation and get them working again. In turn the house slave would get rewarded for his efforts (In Rhodie's case he's Mr. 10,000$ a week trying to clean up the Duke's image). Rhodie's entire job purpose was to calm down the angry masses and get them to keep going along with what the Duke was doing. House slaves did not care for what happened to field slaves just so long as they could keep benefiting and getting rewarded by the master so long as they get to ride his coat tails. I'm guessing the spirits of the house and the dolls saw this event as a complete mockery and insult to the life time of suffering they went through having their significance erased by a man no better than the master they died under. In that regard Rhodie HAD to die from the perspective of the spirits of the house. Duke had himself protected by a modern day house slave that made sure his master was "safe" from consequence and harm.
It's hard for me to believe that Duke or his family would choose a place like Simm's funeral home to provide his funeral services. So it made sense to me that you wouldn't see his body or casket. 🤷🏾♀️ Also, I believe it was too late for him to leave once he hit the painting and we saw the blood.
Yet u MUST remember...THIS AINT NO DAMN FUNERAL HOME THIS AINT NO TERRORDOME NEITHER WELCOME TO HELL😂😂 Duke should have went to hell but I believe this wasn't HIS hell, but a hell for black folks that has killed/harmed other black folks
@harliequeen6512 That's a thought! Never looked at it that way. Everybody's hell looks and feels different, so we, the viewers, wouldn't see him there. Maybe his hell was on a plantation and he was a slave, being whipped and forced into a life of service. And when he tried to leave, hell's hound dogs would chase him back to the plantation. 💁🏾♀️
@@latoyahickmon804 Thank you. I've always said the doll was the only story that "seemed" out of place, yet I grew up n saw it as "What can happen if we(black folk) stuck together and to our roots", which is a story that NEED to b promoted more. The other stories were crimes against ur own kind, either 1st hand or 2nd hand(Clarence)and the ULTIMATE story was basically those guys' actions leading them into HELL..We never know how our actions may play a part in someone else's lives..These r just my thoughts 😆 I smoke a lot n these r the things I c wen I'm elevated.
i havent starting watching yet but in Japan dolls are believed to hold souls and can animate at will without a median like a priest or a voodoo practitioner. in this story she harvested and transfered troubled souls but in Japan a soul can find a doll to reside in on its own.
He was doing to much. That’s just who Duke really WAS. Which is why he had to hire Roddy. Roddy was hire to help Duke to become more PC. Towards the end, who he was really started to resurface. Roddy was folded up because he was just “in the way”. And also it was “nigglet” is what duke called the dolls.
@Jonel Robinson I do find it strange that we didn’t see the black guys body in the casket or the white guys in hell did they not go to hell or did they become one of the dolls
This channel is shedding light on black movies that dont get the same viewership that others get. Just like when i was in business black businesses have to depend on black people to make it wheres others get blacks whites and everyone else anr they can allways be profitable. Black movies are deeper in meaning that they dont get credit for.
There is so much depth and meaning in many of our classic films, but I see so many of us dismiss our art, saying things like, "It's just a movie. It ain't that deep." So sad...
My questions is if everyone going to hell. Because technically, you are in the "thugs" purgatory. They, like Krazy K, had a choice. The Doll is like, the "Lesson. "
I kinda feel like they chose the character that was the cameraman that was recording Duke was chose because he looks mixed or “light skinned” which gives him the title of “House Ninja” in a sense and that’s why he felt like something wasn’t right but the other half of him kept going on because he was just worried about money and power just like the white man Duke. I don’t know that’s just my interpretation of it
one thing id like to point out . in both this story and Rogue Cops is the murals . im not sure what the writers intentions were but i think the doll keeper trapped her soul in a painting of herself rather than a doll. notice when Duke told the story about her transferring souls he never said what she did to her own soul once she expired .her painting and that house may have been her eternal resting place and Duke disturbing her rest summoned the dolls to reanimate. that house was basically tomb to hold souls . juxtaposed the evil cop was banished to a mural as this was his eternal punishment . P.S... guns wont always be the end all. like how them dumb cops was shooting at a tombstone, or when Duke tried to kill a doll with a shot gun, and the three guys aiming guns at the devil. everybody listed used a gun when desperation kicked in but made no difference
@@harliequeen6512 them mutha#$$kas needed no coffins ..😂😂😂😂... one got beheaded , the other got his coffin in the graveyard and lastly the Hell in a mural ..
I heard that they might do a Tales From The Hood TV series. If the series comes to pass, I hope they do an origin story of The Dollhouse. BTW, the voodoo doll makes a cameo in Tales From The Hood 2.
I think the reason why white dude doesn’t have a casket is because the story isn’t about him per se. He’s like the main character is but the star is the doll and it’s about how the star got their get back from the white dude. The white dude doesn’t deserve to have an afterlife at all, he’s obliterated from any existence. Also I don’t think the dolls are evil or working for the devil. I think they’re servers of justice and they can walk both paths (“good” or “bad”) freely depending on what needs to be done.
@@AxiomAmnesia I didn’t give him much thought honestly, but that could be the reason why he’s not in the caskets either. He wasn’t great but he wasn’t horrible either he was just about “doing his job” maybe his afterlife is undecided at that point because he’s unremarkable. He’s in limbo while they review his other deeds in life to decide if he belongs in hell or not.
Exactly. Its about the doll. Notic3 in the funeral home it's totally healed and clean. This is like wondering where the crooked cops are. Doesnt matter. They're dead.
The same could be said about the crooked cops in the first story. Where were all of them? It’s about the dolls, hence why it was in the parlor and not a body, and why Simms mentioned he picked the *doll* up down south. It’s useless to wonder where they are lol it doesn’t matter.
There was no body for Duke because the dolls ate him. Duke is in Hell but there is no body to show. This is the dolls’ story. Maybe the dolls are the final resting place for Duke. Maybe in this universe God and the Devil being balance and that just is what it is. Good do good. Bad do bad. And sometimes they work hand in hand.
Eli is playing the traditional horror role of the Harbinger. Only there to let the lead characters know what dangers are about to come upon them should they proceed further. The Harbinger usually dresses in blue collar clothing and presents an air of a person who has seen the supernatural many times before, as they are a long-time resident. It represents the final warning that the (often moral) event horizon is about to be crossed, and from here on, there is no return to safety.
This is why I feel like Eli represented the point of no return for Duke after he ignored his last warning and the doll turned up in his car. It was a wrap! Also, thanks for bringing up the word "harbinger" to represent Eli's role in the film.
@@AxiomAmnesia hehe, I got you. I can also tell you the story about the Monster, there are TWO Harbingers. The child is an inverse. I can comment why on that video if you want.
I always thought it was obvious to everyone that the reason the coffin is empty is because his soul is trapped with the dolls. I never considered anyone not getting that.
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Loved this movie as a kid ❤ as an adult , I’ve paid closer attention, and I have to say it’s so many hidden messages it’s insane , Salute from Indiana ❤ keep going crazy
That last Boyz N The Hood breakdown. Y'all had me going. But, I appreciate you all reaching out directly. I truly enjoy your break down of these classics. 5⭐️. This movie is a classic. One of my all time favs.
Thanks so much for watching and in case you didn't know, there are three videos we've done on Tales from the Hood and the last one will come out over the weekend.
The doll story was also the creepiest for me too. I couldn't sleep all night as a kid😅 Now the effects haven't aged well but it still kinda creepy. I'm loving the tales from the hood review series. Great work!😊👍
As a child the dolls had me scared of dolls for a long time. Now that I’ve come across your page and broke down everything I can say I may not have been scared if I knew more history. But as a 6 year old this whole movie was terrifying.
They wanted him to leave. He always had a choice to leave, even after they started to attack. And Eli had to warn him, bc you have to always have a chance to stop. That’s the overall theme of each story including the surrounding story. You always have a CHOICE. That’s also why Satan (the devil in disguise) is the storyteller, bc the Devil has to allow you to make your own decisions to follow him or God. But once you make the wrong choice…you only have yourself to blame for the consequences. This movie is definitely top 10 underrated movies of all time.
I know Mr Simms found the doll in the house but I don't think it deserved to be in hell since the doll was a slave who's soul got transferred into a doll body. Also how was Simms able to get the doll without getting devoured by the other dolls?
To anyone who played Red Dead Redemption 2 those dolls remind me of the Night folk. They don't talk they make clicking noises and hisses like the dolls in the movie.
I doubt the dolls would have let him go because the slave owner wouldn't let the enslaved people go. I agree that he was at the point of no return because of pride. He claimed ownership of the home so he laid claim to the horrors that were committed at the order of the original owner(Wilkes). So he would not have been let go. He claimed the crimes of the original owner so he meets the fate of the reparations. Also, maybe there is no casket because the dolls ate the body down to nothing... I had to edit to add the phrase "LOST SOULS" because I made it to the end lol
If Duke left, that would've been him completely changing...... compared to I think TFTH3, if he changed his mind about African Americans, I think that would've also been the end of his campaign. He probably would've went to feed the homeless and all that. 😂
Yessss! I went to the civil rights museum when I was in the 5th grade, and I wandered off from my Mom.. the unrest I felt there.. even as a child. Omg. The pain I felt… even as a 9/10 year old child.
Remember you guys there are two endings to this story in the movie. Look for the alternate ending (he was hanged with the American flag around his neck from the chandelier)
@@AxiomAmnesia the hanging is original/ none edit version of the movie, if you look at any vhs tape, all of them is the hanging scene with him from the chandelier, And the intro from the movie is different as well. The version you are talking about now is the TV/DVD edit version. Because the news, police and his campaign teammates walked in the house and found him and the old mad had to tell them about how powerful things are that not fully understood in this world. It also gave a complete ending to the story of the the house, the voodoo woman, and the revenge of the black souls that are stationed inside of the dolls.
I know people say stop motion is dated compared to CGI, but seeing the dolls animated in stop motion still makes them very creepy. BTW Duke hiding behind the American flag emphasizes Sam Johnson’s statement that patriotism isthe last refuge of the scoundrel.
Ben Affleck had that episode of finding your roots pulled off the air because he didn't want the public to know that he descends from a slave owner speaking of the financial benefits
he said he found the doll down south, the movie is a west coast atmosphere the body must been discovered the next day because he did call some people earlier, paramedics recovered remains, transported to a specific morgue preform an autopsy, in that city or state where it took place
omg this was the movie that traumatized me as a kid but I never knew the name!! I'll never forget being at my great grandma's house waking up to the dolls coming out that painting
This dude had plenty of times to go, but hey... Idk if this has been mentioned, but when Duke had that flag aiming it. It reminds me of the photo "The soiling of Old Glory." As you guys discuss this movie, it hits differently now since I am an adult. It's still entertaining.❤ I can't wait to hear you guys take on the first tale!❤
I was 10 years old at a friends house when this was HBO. Didn’t understand at the time, but the stories are very deep. The last one with the lady in white always stuck with me.
Yes Cheri, I had that spiritual deep gut feeling on vacation to New Orleans with family. I accepted the gift of tuning in spiritually to our ancestors and knew what was happening at that moment. I was very quiet and pensive throughout the trip. I felt a suffering that persisted from long ago to current. 😞 My husband noticed my mood changed too. He said he NEVER saw me like that, EVER...😕
I was like 7 or 8 the first time I ever seen tales from the hood and this story and the one about Martin Morehouse legit creeped me out 😂. The dolls tho is what really stuck with me, I could not sleep that night!
Each story has an aesop connected to the body. Maybe there is nothing to be learned from that type of white man lol! The doll has a spirit in it. Encased in wood. Basically a walking coffin. A reminder that whatever you paint yourself as now, your past WILL come back.
Tyrone, that's a good point! The doll is in the mortuary and the doll is a walking coffin. So are you thinking that the spirits in the body are bad? They were victims and all the people in the coffins were perpetrators of evil.
@Axiom Amnesia more like vengeful spirits locked out of an afterlife after being put in the dolls. Satan may have kept this doll as something of an amusement; being forever trapped in a wooden imitation of what you used to be is already a special kind of hell--deserved or not...
I don’t see Duke being laid to rest at a black funeral home! He’s definitely in hell. I’m sure he was found by his whiten family and they handled that.
i faced my fears and watched this breakdown and im actually glad i did.... as an adult, this a good healthy dose of getback. this is like how we have the hurricane trails and how we got the black towns that have man made lakes on top of them that have deaths every year or really in a more present era, the way the dolls tore him up makes me feel like how these billionaires took they crazy tail self in that water thinking they was going on a field trip, and vanished, the water carries lost souls too....
The commentary and tangent on how the playing field not being level and how WS and the institutions derived in the goal of extending WS was just...... Superb.
2:35🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️😬😬I remember when I was in 3rd grade and dreamt the dolls from the movie climbed my bunkbed and bit me up! On everything I love i woke up with tiny bite marks all over my arm😮😮 Folks said did it to myself 😂
We have to look into context, would a racists family actually take him to a black mortuary? Probably not. Plus the other stories could have happened in Cali but this one is clearly in the south so another reason he would not be there.
I think the… slightly more interesting thing you didn’t cover was the original idea for the dolls. Pickaninnies. Rusty Cundiff wanted them to be pickaninnies and the effects department guy was like “I don’t think that’s a good idea” Personally I do think they should have had the maker of the dolls in the story trap Duke in a doll. I think that would have made him just as inhuman as he saw black people.
Crazy- growing up my granny, who is from Chicago and moved to LA when she was 9, used to comb my hair into these little plaits. She called them pickaninny braids and I grew up calling them that, still to this day. I never had any idea it was a racial epithet until I got older. My granny grew up obviously during segregation so she’s very pro-black but also very conservative. Reminds me of reading slave books where they call themselves negr0es; almost internalized racism.
Triple K Comeuppance This is truly an eerie tale. This mirrors a story from Trilogy of Terror. In that movie, a lady (Karen Black) receives a Zulu doll and it goes badly. Duke Metger is a combination of David Duke and Tom Metzger (a white supremacist who founded White Aryan Resistance). His assistant, Rhodie, sounds like roadie which is a profession in a band that sets up and maintain instruments. Rhodie is setting up Duke to help him maintain his instrument (his racial bias). Why no body in the funeral? Here's my theory. This is a mortuary is geared towards black people. Every tale is a tale geared towards to the three boys. Simms is trying to walk them through to the last story (themselves). Duke's story isn't a tale about black people. Also, they torn him apart so there is no body. The original ending had Duke hanging by an American flag. But the new ending has him being torn apart. We have to agree to disagree on the blame of who is pulling the strings and who is worst. I was one of the people you were talking about in previous comments. My experience in L.A., during the 90's, the people who took part in the violence were worst than the politicians/people who may set it up years ago. They pull the trigger. They killed innocents for a bag or color. They destroyed lives and terrorized their own neighborhoods. While I can scream and holler at Richard Nixon, Daryl Gates, George Bush, or J Edgar Hoover, the people who actually killed their own folks were the ones that hurt us more. People in the neighborhood were able to fight back and educate others about the concepts of the rich and powerful. There was a choice and I chose to elevate rather than destroy. That's how it ended (gang violence) in the long run. But I still blame the finger of the trigger more than the people who created the system. The system didn't kill my friends. They didn't cause death in the streets with mindless shooting or set up the King riots. I know how it started. It wasn't politicians. It was crowd that was angry for a police arrest a block away from Florence and Normandy. They walked over to the intersection and the riots began. I'm not saying the puppet masters are blameless. They have a special place in hell. But we just disagree and I'm cool with it. I love your channel and I'm still a big time supporter because this is a good conversation about movies and themes. Whoops, almost forgot. Lost souls
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment and sharing your view on all of this. We appreciate you listening to our views... To be clear on the issue of the people who created the system vs those who do evil within the system, I don't absolve any of them. Let me give you a personal example. My brother was murdered by a Black man. I blame that person wholeheartedly. Nevertheless, I acknowledge and understand that social and political context within which the person chose to murder and its impact. Look at how many people are harmed by policies that could ever be harmed by the individual acts. This is the crux of the argument that the people who created the system are worse. It's about power and the use of that power for evil.
Why is there no body in Simms Mortuary for this story?
That's a damn good question I never that about that
@@isaiahjones2011 we need an answer to this for real!
@@AxiomAmnesia ikr
@@AxiomAmnesia easy question
the reason why there's no body?
bcuz it got ate/eating up by da dolls at the end when dey ate him alive
Oooh good question! Maybe the keeper of souls trapped them in the "doll house" and they're doomed to serve their eternity there? Idk but now you have me really thinking lol
That's why I love watching these reviews for older movies. NEVER realized no coffin for Duke! I like that some ppl think the dolls ate him so no body for a coffin. But I thought of it with more symbolism: these type of ppl and their ideology will never die!
good take !! and there are thousands of Dukes roaming Earth til this day
That’s a good point!
Yea
It was also a mortuary in the hood. A politician would be taken to an upscale one
@larongoode2360 very true! That is one place where we are faithful as far as blk owned busn!
The way the first doll put himself back together, goes to show you yea we are our ancestors, we always come back to wreck some ish. How momma and nem! 😂😂🧞♀️✨
Nawww... the point of no return was when the painting started bleeding! ALL the dolls came out!! 🤣🤣🤣
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Duke’s “can’t we all just get along” was always said in mocking and with disrespect.
Facts
Oh he was definitely a piece of sht racist.. but it was only gona get worse later lol
So True
Oh most def, he was vile to the core, up until his death.. It never registered to him, how evil he was, throughout his life..
Maybe im crazy but this one never freaked me out. Ima sucker for revenge so i watched this story with glee 😊i found myself wishing it were real & we all stood together like those dolls. This is the only story that didn't scare me.
😂 The way they were all gathered around him and then just attacked! 😆
Same lol
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Me to!!
I secretly enjoyed it even at 5!! God I can’t wait for our retribution and revenge
You gotta remember, when he took the doll and tied him to the dart board he was already outside… He could have left… He tried to stand his ground not jus against the dolls but also against what the old man was saying about the souls not wanting him there…
He was crazy not to heed the warning in the first place, but then to try to fight the doll? Sheer stupidity! LOL
@@AxiomAmnesia just shows the audacity of those kinds of people..
I definitely believe dolls can hold souls cause they be looking creepy as hell especially if they was in the house of somebody that’s passed on, my granny never let dolls in her house cause she was told that. Idk if it’s a southern superstition or what but it be feeling too real imo
Y'all should check out the story behind Chucky, not the movie but the story, you'll be shocked at what you find out
Eli had a fat cigar, so he was definitely someone. And can we all just clap at the part when Duke said "Can't we all just get along?", and someone replied, "HELL NA!", lol
Is it weird that I found it so cute, the little sounds the dolls made, and when they all showed up to get their revenge? 😭😭😭
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I always thought they were cute.
I just want to hug them!😭😭😭🤗
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Same I always thought they were adorable 🥰😍😍!!
The leader of the dolls voice: NOWWWWW YOUUUU👉, Right before they ate him😊
Just a theroy: the reason there was no body in the casket is because there literaly no body. The Dolls devoured the man. there was nothing left. Duke could very well be among the denizens of hell
What about Rhodie's body?
@@AxiomAmnesia not the main character of the tale. the other bodies were related to the main antagonist or the main lead.
That’s what I said too!
His leaving would have been an act of contrition. It was over when he came back from the funeral. RGS’s death was that final warning.
Man when that lady came off that painting that freaked me out as a kid lol 😅
The legend goes once the doll show you it’s alive……it’s to late…..you have a date with destiny
This just creeped me out badly. I don’t have dolls, though. So 😮💨 😂
Yep, this is the story that STILL has my sister scared of the little Black figurines that all our mom and grandmothers had in their houses back in the 90s! I unknowingly tortured her watching this movie every night before I went to sleep. The rest of the movie she was cool with, but this story?!? This story had me waking up with her in my bed most mornings LMMFAO! But she didn't say anything about it until we were in our 30s, so I had no clue. 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ I think this was my favorite story because the dolls got their revenge in the end. Let the dolls do what the dolls gone do! Just let the dolls work. I love that!!! 😂😂😂
I guess the dolls would’ve let him go earlier, but I think the point of no return was him smashing the face of Miss Cobbs‘ portrait and her bleeding which was not only disrespectful, but assault on her, so the dolls now want Duke’s ass on a platter even if he wasn’t too stubborn and did leave after that. By then it was more about the dolls wanting vengeance than reperations with Duke.
Looking back on it now as I'm older, this part of the movie did a great analogy I overlooked when I was younger watching it the first time. Duke Metger and Rhodie (His Assistant) were basically a modernized analogy of a master and a house slave. Looking at it now it was pretty on the nose how they also cast a light skinned black person for the role which is rather clever of them. Let's look at some jobs a house slave used to do. When field slaves got out of hand, the master would usually send down the house slave to calm down the crowd and put them back on the plantation and get them working again. In turn the house slave would get rewarded for his efforts (In Rhodie's case he's Mr. 10,000$ a week trying to clean up the Duke's image).
Rhodie's entire job purpose was to calm down the angry masses and get them to keep going along with what the Duke was doing. House slaves did not care for what happened to field slaves just so long as they could keep benefiting and getting rewarded by the master so long as they get to ride his coat tails. I'm guessing the spirits of the house and the dolls saw this event as a complete mockery and insult to the life time of suffering they went through having their significance erased by a man no better than the master they died under. In that regard Rhodie HAD to die from the perspective of the spirits of the house. Duke had himself protected by a modern day house slave that made sure his master was "safe" from consequence and harm.
It's hard for me to believe that Duke or his family would choose a place like Simm's funeral home to provide his funeral services. So it made sense to me that you wouldn't see his body or casket. 🤷🏾♀️
Also, I believe it was too late for him to leave once he hit the painting and we saw the blood.
😂 I don't think any of those people chose Simms Funeral Home though. They simply ended up there due to their deeds.
Yet u MUST remember...THIS AINT NO DAMN FUNERAL HOME
THIS AINT NO TERRORDOME NEITHER
WELCOME TO HELL😂😂
Duke should have went to hell but I believe this wasn't HIS hell, but a hell for black folks that has killed/harmed other black folks
@harliequeen6512 That's a thought! Never looked at it that way. Everybody's hell looks and feels different, so we, the viewers, wouldn't see him there. Maybe his hell was on a plantation and he was a slave, being whipped and forced into a life of service. And when he tried to leave, hell's hound dogs would chase him back to the plantation. 💁🏾♀️
@@latoyahickmon804 Thank you. I've always said the doll was the only story that "seemed" out of place, yet I grew up n saw it as "What can happen if we(black folk) stuck together and to our roots", which is a story that NEED to b promoted more. The other stories were crimes against ur own kind, either 1st hand or 2nd hand(Clarence)and the ULTIMATE story was basically those guys' actions leading them into HELL..We never know how our actions may play a part in someone else's lives..These r just my thoughts 😆 I smoke a lot n these r the things I c wen I'm elevated.
i havent starting watching yet but in Japan dolls are believed to hold souls and can animate at will without a median like a priest or a voodoo practitioner. in this story she harvested and transfered troubled souls but in Japan a soul can find a doll to reside in on its own.
As a kid the doll scene always creeppped me out. Now that Im grown , I had to go back & watch the movie 😹🤷🏾♀️👏🏽👏🏽
The dolls ate the meat and the bones. That's why there's no body.
He was doing to much. That’s just who Duke really WAS. Which is why he had to hire Roddy. Roddy was hire to help Duke to become more PC. Towards the end, who he was really started to resurface. Roddy was folded up because he was just “in the way”. And also it was “nigglet” is what duke called the dolls.
He was stupid cause I would have gotten the fuck out of that house as soon as I saw the video of the doll tripping someone
This part!!! Hahaha
@Jonel Robinson I do find it strange that we didn’t see the black guys body in the casket or the white guys in hell did they not go to hell or did they become one of the dolls
Him not leaving shows his privilege. We would leave; not them!
When I first seen this as a child it automatically made me think they were talking about David Duke. Look him up. I was happy the dolls got him
I don’t think the dolls would have let him go. One of them followed him out of the house already. As soon as his name was on the lease, he was done.
This channel is shedding light on black movies that dont get the same viewership that others get. Just like when i was in business black businesses have to depend on black people to make it wheres others get blacks whites and everyone else anr they can allways be profitable. Black movies are deeper in meaning that they dont get credit for.
There is so much depth and meaning in many of our classic films, but I see so many of us dismiss our art, saying things like, "It's just a movie. It ain't that deep." So sad...
I agree. The movies they review are top tier works of art. That do not get the maximum amount of recognition
@7:30 Name inspired by David Duke and Tom Metzger. 2 Notorious klansmen.
My questions is if everyone going to hell. Because technically, you are in the "thugs" purgatory. They, like Krazy K, had a choice. The Doll is like, the "Lesson. "
I kinda feel like they chose the character that was the cameraman that was recording Duke was chose because he looks mixed or “light skinned” which gives him the title of “House Ninja” in a sense and that’s why he felt like something wasn’t right but the other half of him kept going on because he was just worried about money and power just like the white man Duke. I don’t know that’s just my interpretation of it
one thing id like to point out . in both this story and Rogue Cops is the murals . im not sure what the writers intentions were but i think the doll keeper trapped her soul in a painting of herself rather than a doll. notice when Duke told the story about her transferring souls he never said what she did to her own soul once she expired .her painting and that house may have been her eternal resting place and Duke disturbing her rest summoned the dolls to reanimate. that house was basically tomb to hold souls . juxtaposed the evil cop was banished to a mural as this was his eternal punishment . P.S... guns wont always be the end all. like how them dumb cops was shooting at a tombstone, or when Duke tried to kill a doll with a shot gun, and the three guys aiming guns at the devil. everybody listed used a gun when desperation kicked in but made no difference
Not to mention those Yt cops weren't in the "funeral home" neither
@@harliequeen6512 them mutha#$$kas needed no coffins ..😂😂😂😂... one got beheaded , the other got his coffin in the graveyard and lastly the Hell in a mural ..
Bruuuh once one of the dolls vanished from the painting I'm hailing a damn cab 😂😂😂
They say once the doll shows you it’s alive, it’s too late. Your fate is sealed.
I just watched Tales From The Hood and saw there was no coffin for Duke. Strange.
I heard that they might do a Tales From The Hood TV series. If the series comes to pass, I hope they do an origin story of The Dollhouse. BTW, the voodoo doll makes a cameo in Tales From The Hood 2.
That one was so bad. I hated TFTH 2 lord
@@Jokerasylum14 The only one I enjoyed was the Good Golly segment. That was more funny than scary.
@@Supremmo man I was hyped when I seen the doll from this one but yeah it was just goofy lol
@@Jokerasylum14me too. Both 2 & 3 were ridiculous. Depending on who directs & produces the series, it'll be great though.
@@blacknbougie8021 definitely gotta be more like the first but I doubt networks are gonna let that slide for too long.
I think the reason why white dude doesn’t have a casket is because the story isn’t about him per se. He’s like the main character is but the star is the doll and it’s about how the star got their get back from the white dude. The white dude doesn’t deserve to have an afterlife at all, he’s obliterated from any existence. Also I don’t think the dolls are evil or working for the devil. I think they’re servers of justice and they can walk both paths (“good” or “bad”) freely depending on what needs to be done.
Okay why wasn't Rhodie in a casket then?
@@AxiomAmnesia I didn’t give him much thought honestly, but that could be the reason why he’s not in the caskets either. He wasn’t great but he wasn’t horrible either he was just about “doing his job” maybe his afterlife is undecided at that point because he’s unremarkable. He’s in limbo while they review his other deeds in life to decide if he belongs in hell or not.
Exactly. Its about the doll. Notic3 in the funeral home it's totally healed and clean. This is like wondering where the crooked cops are. Doesnt matter. They're dead.
The same could be said about the crooked cops in the first story. Where were all of them? It’s about the dolls, hence why it was in the parlor and not a body, and why Simms mentioned he picked the *doll* up down south. It’s useless to wonder where they are lol it doesn’t matter.
I have a theory. Funeral homes are typically segregated, which is why Dukes body isn’t at that funeral home.
What about Rhodie's body? He was Black.
@@AxiomAmnesia he was in the freezer 😂
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I thought the same. Why send him to a black funeral home and he is racist? I figured he was with the white funeral home director.
Or the dolls ate him completely, or at least after they ate him up they kept his bones at the house.
The funeral home represents purgatory.
There was no body for Duke because the dolls ate him. Duke is in Hell but there is no body to show. This is the dolls’ story.
Maybe the dolls are the final resting place for Duke.
Maybe in this universe God and the Devil being balance and that just is what it is. Good do good. Bad do bad. And sometimes they work hand in hand.
Eli is playing the traditional horror role of the Harbinger. Only there to let the lead characters know what dangers are about to come upon them should they proceed further.
The Harbinger usually dresses in blue collar clothing and presents an air of a person who has seen the supernatural many times before, as they are a long-time resident.
It represents the final warning that the (often moral) event horizon is about to be crossed, and from here on, there is no return to safety.
This is why I feel like Eli represented the point of no return for Duke after he ignored his last warning and the doll turned up in his car. It was a wrap!
Also, thanks for bringing up the word "harbinger" to represent Eli's role in the film.
@@AxiomAmnesia hehe, I got you. I can also tell you the story about the Monster, there are TWO Harbingers. The child is an inverse. I can comment why on that video if you want.
Lol he's the "Yall better turn back now, ya hear"
The Duke was devoured by the dolls
The dolls didnt want him in the house nor in the funeral home lol!!!
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MY FAVORITE WAS THE DOLLS LMFAOOOOO 😅😅😅😅😅 I was cheering for those dolls 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
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Same 💞
Duke and good ole American flag was the real demon.
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Hmm maybe Dukes ceased to exist. Maybe by the dolls eating him they ate his body and soul, or per se absorbedit?!🤔
I always thought it was obvious to everyone that the reason the coffin is empty is because his soul is trapped with the dolls. I never considered anyone not getting that.
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Loved this movie as a kid ❤ as an adult , I’ve paid closer attention, and I have to say it’s so many hidden messages it’s insane , Salute from Indiana ❤ keep going crazy
That last Boyz N The Hood breakdown. Y'all had me going. But, I appreciate you all reaching out directly. I truly enjoy your break down of these classics. 5⭐️. This movie is a classic. One of my all time favs.
Thanks so much for watching and in case you didn't know, there are three videos we've done on Tales from the Hood and the last one will come out over the weekend.
Fun fact: The dolls were designed by the Chiodo Brothers, the guys behind the movie "Killer Clowns from Outer Space".
The doll story was also the creepiest for me too. I couldn't sleep all night as a kid😅
Now the effects haven't aged well but it still kinda creepy.
I'm loving the tales from the hood review series. Great work!😊👍
As a child the dolls had me scared of dolls for a long time. Now that I’ve come across your page and broke down everything I can say I may not have been scared if I knew more history. But as a 6 year old this whole movie was terrifying.
They wanted him to leave. He always had a choice to leave, even after they started to attack. And Eli had to warn him, bc you have to always have a chance to stop. That’s the overall theme of each story including the surrounding story. You always have a CHOICE. That’s also why Satan (the devil in disguise) is the storyteller, bc the Devil has to allow you to make your own decisions to follow him or God. But once you make the wrong choice…you only have yourself to blame for the consequences. This movie is definitely top 10 underrated movies of all time.
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At this point I dont think the dolls would have let him go. There was no turning back
I know Mr Simms found the doll in the house but I don't think it deserved to be in hell since the doll was a slave who's soul got transferred into a doll body.
Also how was Simms able to get the doll without getting devoured by the other dolls?
To anyone who played Red Dead Redemption 2 those dolls remind me of the Night folk. They don't talk they make clicking noises and hisses like the dolls in the movie.
Is it me or is that doll also Lil Penny?? The doll from Penny Hardaway commercials, voiced by Chris Rock.
😂 Now I gotta go look! I don't think so, but I'ma check.
Yes😂😂 they just got him looking better. Spike Lee is the director
I doubt the dolls would have let him go because the slave owner wouldn't let the enslaved people go. I agree that he was at the point of no return because of pride. He claimed ownership of the home so he laid claim to the horrors that were committed at the order of the original owner(Wilkes). So he would not have been let go. He claimed the crimes of the original owner so he meets the fate of the reparations.
Also, maybe there is no casket because the dolls ate the body down to nothing...
I had to edit to add the phrase "LOST SOULS" because I made it to the end lol
If Duke left, that would've been him completely changing...... compared to I think TFTH3, if he changed his mind about African Americans, I think that would've also been the end of his campaign. He probably would've went to feed the homeless and all that. 😂
Yessss! I went to the civil rights museum when I was in the 5th grade, and I wandered off from my Mom.. the unrest I felt there.. even as a child. Omg. The pain I felt… even as a 9/10 year old child.
I’m from NC and a certain age.. I definitely remember the Jesse Helms era..
The dolls gave nightmares
This why I don’t watch this shit 🤣🤣🤣
The Black Mirror episode- The Black Museum reminds me of this movie
Them puppets scared the shit out of me.
25:44 That's What's missing in horror nowadays The Score 🙌🙌🙌Love The Tales from the hood score
Remember you guys there are two endings to this story in the movie. Look for the alternate ending (he was hanged with the American flag around his neck from the chandelier)
But the ending is the official ending though...
@@AxiomAmnesia the hanging is original/ none edit version of the movie, if you look at any vhs tape, all of them is the hanging scene with him from the chandelier, And the intro from the movie is different as well. The version you are talking about now is the TV/DVD edit version. Because the news, police and his campaign teammates walked in the house and found him and the old mad had to tell them about how powerful things are that not fully understood in this world. It also gave a complete ending to the story of the the house, the voodoo woman, and the revenge of the black souls that are stationed inside of the dolls.
The devil is going to collect…should have never came. Thanks for playing! Give you a reverence for the Dolls!
I wish I had some dolls like that to put in some work on some folks
They kinda did the dolls thing on the second movie too n plus one of slave dolls made a special appearance cameo in the movie too 🙏❤️😎😂
Wait .. y’all are Aries … I knew it was a reason why I enjoy the commentary. Great work fellow Aries
Why would you think we're Aries? 😆
@@AxiomAmnesia at the time stamp of 57:40 … “ we can talk about that all day cuz we’re an Aries …” … did I hear that wrong
😂 Okay... You did hear that wrong. I said "all the gray areas". BUT I am an Aries. 😆 I was like, how she know? 🤔. Hey Aries!!!! ❤️
@@AxiomAmnesia 😂😂😂 ahhh gotcha … that’s funny 😆 .. heeeyyy Aries 👋🏾😎
I know people say stop motion is dated compared to CGI, but seeing the dolls animated in stop motion still makes them very creepy. BTW Duke hiding behind the American flag emphasizes Sam Johnson’s statement that patriotism isthe last refuge of the scoundrel.
Ben Affleck had that episode of finding your roots pulled off the air because he didn't want the public to know that he descends from a slave owner speaking of the financial benefits
he said he found the doll down south, the movie is a west coast atmosphere the body must been discovered the next day because he did call some people earlier, paramedics recovered remains, transported to a specific morgue preform an autopsy, in that city or state where it took place
I got from the ending that it's reputation for racism never dead love this movie ❤
The name "Duke Metzger" wasn't just pulled outta the air. It's an amalgamation of David Duke and Tom Metzger, both notorious ◻️ supremacists.
Yes, as we discussed. 😊
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You're so welcome and we appreciate you watching to the end! :0-)
omg this was the movie that traumatized me as a kid but I never knew the name!! I'll never forget being at my great grandma's house waking up to the dolls coming out that painting
This dude had plenty of times to go, but hey... Idk if this has been mentioned, but when Duke had that flag aiming it. It reminds me of the photo "The soiling of Old Glory." As you guys discuss this movie, it hits differently now since I am an adult. It's still entertaining.❤ I can't wait to hear you guys take on the first tale!❤
Hey Just Me!!! That is a great observation and yes it does remind me of that photograph!
I was 10 years old at a friends house when this was HBO.
Didn’t understand at the time, but the stories are very deep.
The last one with the lady in white always stuck with me.
When the guy that played duke got killed I was beyond thrilled. Thanks again for bringing these Easter eggs to my attention.
Duke wasn't in the casket cause those dolls are his ass up😂
Yes Cheri, I had that spiritual deep gut feeling on vacation to New Orleans with family. I accepted the gift of tuning in spiritually to our ancestors and knew what was happening at that moment. I was very quiet and pensive throughout the trip. I felt a suffering that persisted from long ago to current. 😞 My husband noticed my mood changed too. He said he NEVER saw me like that, EVER...😕
The only Spooks I’m afraid of are you spooky reporters! 🤣😂😂😂
I was like 7 or 8 the first time I ever seen tales from the hood and this story and the one about Martin Morehouse legit creeped me out 😂. The dolls tho is what really stuck with me, I could not sleep that night!
Each story has an aesop connected to the body.
Maybe there is nothing to be learned from that type of white man lol!
The doll has a spirit in it. Encased in wood. Basically a walking coffin. A reminder that whatever you paint yourself as now, your past WILL come back.
Tyrone, that's a good point! The doll is in the mortuary and the doll is a walking coffin. So are you thinking that the spirits in the body are bad? They were victims and all the people in the coffins were perpetrators of evil.
@Axiom Amnesia more like vengeful spirits locked out of an afterlife after being put in the dolls. Satan may have kept this doll as something of an amusement; being forever trapped in a wooden imitation of what you used to be is already a special kind of hell--deserved or not...
@@tyronemccarter1907 really good break down. I agree the dolls definitely give off a vengeful, tortured soul aura.
@@Mad-UpperCuts my guess is that they were already angry before they were put in...
@@tyronemccarter1907 heck yeah they were. Slavery is ended and the evil plantation owner, instead of letting them become free, slaughters them.
RGS in that Clarence Thomas/Candace Owens/Harris Faulkner role.
He is an amazing actor.
Yes he is!!! And I love that he is in so many of our classic films!
I don’t see Duke being laid to rest at a black funeral home! He’s definitely in hell. I’m sure he was found by his whiten family and they handled that.
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This governor is extremely similar to my governor in Florida.
Yessss Rodney!!! Your Governor is PROBLEMATIC!!!
@@AxiomAmnesia that’s an understatement
@@rodneythompson8861 Yep!
I said the same thing Rodney! De Satan is gonna have his day!
@@shylae2000 Disney is the dolls 😂
I honestly think the dolls are him just like their ancestors used to eat our ancestors. That’s why it was no body left for the casket
i faced my fears and watched this breakdown and im actually glad i did.... as an adult, this a good healthy dose of getback. this is like how we have the hurricane trails and how we got the black towns that have man made lakes on top of them that have deaths every year or really in a more present era, the way the dolls tore him up makes me feel like how these billionaires took they crazy tail self in that water thinking they was going on a field trip, and vanished, the water carries lost souls too....
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The commentary and tangent on how the playing field not being level and how WS and the institutions derived in the goal of extending WS was just...... Superb.
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2:35🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️😬😬I remember when I was in 3rd grade and dreamt the dolls from the movie climbed my bunkbed and bit me up! On everything I love i woke up with tiny bite marks all over my arm😮😮 Folks said did it to myself 😂
If you guys want a good horror about a doll, I suggest watching the Trilogy of Terror. The last story is creepy and amazing.
He wasn’t in a casket because he was trapped in the painting
I always stick around till the end 💯
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We have to look into context, would a racists family actually take him to a black mortuary? Probably not. Plus the other stories could have happened in Cali but this one is clearly in the south so another reason he would not be there.
I think the… slightly more interesting thing you didn’t cover was the original idea for the dolls.
Pickaninnies. Rusty Cundiff wanted them to be pickaninnies and the effects department guy was like “I don’t think that’s a good idea”
Personally I do think they should have had the maker of the dolls in the story trap Duke in a doll.
I think that would have made him just as inhuman as he saw black people.
Crazy- growing up my granny, who is from Chicago and moved to LA when she was 9, used to comb my hair into these little plaits. She called them pickaninny braids and I grew up calling them that, still to this day. I never had any idea it was a racial epithet until I got older. My granny grew up obviously during segregation so she’s very pro-black but also very conservative. Reminds me of reading slave books where they call themselves negr0es; almost internalized racism.
I always wondered if duke actually died in movie. Maybe he ended up in insane asylum to rot. No one would believe him
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This is truly an eerie tale. This mirrors a story from Trilogy of Terror. In that movie, a lady (Karen Black) receives a Zulu doll and it goes badly. Duke Metger is a combination of David Duke and Tom Metzger (a white supremacist who founded White Aryan Resistance). His assistant, Rhodie, sounds like roadie which is a profession in a band that sets up and maintain instruments. Rhodie is setting up Duke to help him maintain his instrument (his racial bias). Why no body in the funeral? Here's my theory.
This is a mortuary is geared towards black people. Every tale is a tale geared towards to the three boys. Simms is trying to walk them through to the last story (themselves). Duke's story isn't a tale about black people. Also, they torn him apart so there is no body. The original ending had Duke hanging by an American flag. But the new ending has him being torn apart.
We have to agree to disagree on the blame of who is pulling the strings and who is worst. I was one of the people you were talking about in previous comments. My experience in L.A., during the 90's, the people who took part in the violence were worst than the politicians/people who may set it up years ago. They pull the trigger. They killed innocents for a bag or color. They destroyed lives and terrorized their own neighborhoods. While I can scream and holler at Richard Nixon, Daryl Gates, George Bush, or J Edgar Hoover, the people who actually killed their own folks were the ones that hurt us more. People in the neighborhood were able to fight back and educate others about the concepts of the rich and powerful. There was a choice and I chose to elevate rather than destroy. That's how it ended (gang violence) in the long run. But I still blame the finger of the trigger more than the people who created the system. The system didn't kill my friends. They didn't cause death in the streets with mindless shooting or set up the King riots. I know how it started. It wasn't politicians. It was crowd that was angry for a police arrest a block away from Florence and Normandy. They walked over to the intersection and the riots began. I'm not saying the puppet masters are blameless. They have a special place in hell. But we just disagree and I'm cool with it. I love your channel and I'm still a big time supporter because this is a good conversation about movies and themes. Whoops, almost forgot. Lost souls
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment and sharing your view on all of this. We appreciate you listening to our views...
To be clear on the issue of the people who created the system vs those who do evil within the system, I don't absolve any of them.
Let me give you a personal example. My brother was murdered by a Black man. I blame that person wholeheartedly. Nevertheless, I acknowledge and understand that social and political context within which the person chose to murder and its impact.
Look at how many people are harmed by policies that could ever be harmed by the individual acts. This is the crux of the argument that the people who created the system are worse. It's about power and the use of that power for evil.