Original The Crow Director Pulls No Punches When It Comes To 'Cash-Grab' Remake

Bill Skarsgard in The Crow

It’s safe to say that new thriller The Crow isn’t off to the best of starts.

After landing an unenviable 22% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes and an average of 2.3 stars on the fan review site Letterboxd, the movie has now been panned by the maker of the 1994 original.

Writing on Facebook, Alex Proyas wrote that he “thought the remake was a cynical cash-grab”.

“Not much cash to grab it seems,” he added, referring to the Crow remake’s middling...