When this 1995 horror anthology film premiered it was underseen and misunderstood. Now over 25 years later, it’s four comedic and conscious tales, about issues affecting African American communities, are still tragically relevant today.

In South Central Los Angeles, three drug dealers (Joe Torry, De’Aundre Bonds, and Samuel Monroe Jr.) arrive at the eerie Simms’ Funeral Home to purchase some lost drugs from the mortuary’s peculiar owner, Mr. Simms (Clarence Williams III). He asks the trio to help him retrieve the drugs from the basement. As the eccentric mortician guides them deeper and deeper into the bowels of his funeral parlor, he tells them four stories about the recently deceased, each stranger and more honest than the last.

In a candid interview with IndieWire, celebrating the 25^th Anniversary of the film, director Rusty Cundieff talks about the studio’s reaction to the film, “The studio didn’t really know how to deal with the movie. They were afraid of the politics of it.” He reflects on how the film’s marketing “If you look at the release trailer, you cannot tell what the hell is going on. Everything looks crazy.” And how it effected the initial release, “…everyone that I talked to after the film was out wide said, ‘If I had known what the movie was really about, I would have seen it in the theater!’ Or, ‘I would have gone to see it earlier.’ And so I think the studio lost some initial box office because they were just afraid of putting it out there the way that I created it.”