The Crow: Salvation

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The Crow: Salvation

Movie poster for The Crow: Salvation
Directed by Bharat Nalluri
Written by Chip Johannessen
Starring Eric Mabius, Kirsten Dunst, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Fred Ward, William Atherton, Dale Midkiff, Bill Mondy, Walton Goggins, Tim DeKay
Release date(s) January 23 2000
Running time 102 min
Country USA
Language English
Preceded by The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
Followed by The Crow: Wicked Prayer
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The Crow: Salvation was the third movie based on The Crow comic by James O'Barr. It was directed by Bharat Nalluri and released direct to video in 2000 after its distributor cancelled the intended theatrical release. The original movie gained a cult following while the second (The Crow: City of Angels) was poorly received.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Alex Corvis returns as The Crow to hunt down his girlfriend's murderers.
Alex Corvis returns as The Crow to hunt down his girlfriend's murderers.

The story revolves around Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) who is wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend. He is brought back to life to seek justice, getting revenge on the true murderers. Eventually he discovers a corrupt police force and needs the help of his girlfriend's sister, played by Kirsten Dunst.

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[edit] Trivia

  • Alex Corvis is said in the movie to be the youngest person to be executed using an electric chair. This contradicts the fact, that the youngest person who died this way was actually 14 years old George Stinney.
  • According to an interview, Rob Zombie, musician and horror director, wrote a script for a third Crow film called The Crow: 2037 which was about a boy and his mother being murdered by a Satanic Priest in the year 2010. The boy is ressurrected by the crow a year later and forgets everything until 27 years later, also included is a link to the script (PDF format).[1][2]
  • Alex's last name, Corvis, is supposed to be Latin for crow. This is a translation error. The Latin word corvus means raven and not crow. Corvis is the plural dative case (respectively plural ablative) of corvus and would translate in to the ravens. The Latin word for crow is cornix. The name Corvis used in The Crow Salvation is similar to the name "Michael Corvin", which was originally to be used for Vincent Perez's role in "The Crow: City of Angels". The name was scrapped, but eventually passed to Scott Speedman for the "Underworld" series.
  • James O'Barr, creator of the original comic, designed some promotional sketches for the film. They are included as bonus material on the film's musical score CD. He also says he liked Eric Mabius' performance, but stated the overall film suffered greatly for other reasons.
  • This film marks Kirsten Dunst's first foray into the role of a character inspired by a comic book; she would later come to fame in the popular role of Mary Jane Watson for the "Spider-Man" films.
  • Rob Zombie, who as noted above contributed a very early story for what eventually became this film, still retains a notable mention in the finished piece: his hit song "Living Dead Girl" appears in the Corvis/Erlich chase scene.

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The Crow
James O'Barr • The Crow comic book
Film and television
The Crow (1994) • The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998 series) • The Crow: Salvation (2000)
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Music
Fear and Bullets The soundtrack to the graphic novel The Crow by Trust Obey (1994)
The Crow soundtrack (1994) • The Crow Original Motion Picture Score by Graeme Revell (1994)
The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack (1996) • The Crow: City of Angels Original Motion Picture Score by Graeme Revell (1996)
The Crow: Salvation soundtrack (2000) • The Crow: Salvation Original Motion Picture Score by Marco Beltrami (2000)
Non-O'Barr comics
City of Angels (comic book) by Wagner/Hester/Ormston (1996) • Dead Time by Wagner/Maleev (1996)
Flesh and Blood by Vance/Maleev (1997) • Wild Justice by Prosser/Adlard (1997)
Waking Nightmares by Golden/Hester (1998) • "The Crow/Razor: Kill the Pain" by Hartsoe/Beck (1998)
Image Comics' The Crow by Muth/Tollagson/Various (1999)
Novels
City of Angels (novelization) by Chet Williamson (1996)
The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite (1998) • Clash by Night by Chet Williamson (1998)
Quoth the Crow by David Bischoff (1998) • Temple of Night by S.P. Somtow (1999)
Wicked Prayer by Norman Partridge (2000) • Hellbound by A.A. Attanasio (2001)
Miscellaneous
The Crow: The Movie (book) by Jeff Conner (1994) • The Crow COA, Diary of the Film by Jeff Conner (1996)
The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams - Collection of short fiction and poetry edited by James O'Barr and Ed Kramer. Contributors include Alan Dean Foster, Ramsey Campbell, Gene Wolfe, Storm Constantine, Nancy Collins, Andrew Vachss, Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins. (1998)
The Crow: The Story Behind The Film by Bridget Baiss (2000)
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