

Eric next travels to the pawn shop where Tin Tin had pawned Shelly's engagement ring, forcing the owner, Gideon, to return it. The crow helps Eric locate Tin Tin, whom Eric stabs to death. Guided by the crow, with whom he shares a telepathic connection, Eric sets out to avenge his and Shelly's murders. Eric also discovers that any wounds he receives heal immediately. Upon returning to his now-derelict apartment, Eric experiences flashbacks of his murder, when a gang (T-Bird, Tin Tin, Funboy and Skank) broke in and attacked him and Shelly due to them protesting forced evictions at their apartment building. A crow lands on Eric's gravestone and taps on it, resurrecting him. One year later, Sarah visits Shelly and Eric's graves before meeting with Albrecht, who now helps take care of her. Albrecht comforts Sarah when she realizes that Shelly is going to die from her injuries. As he leaves for the hospital with Shelly, Albrecht meets a young girl, Sarah, whom Shelly and Eric look after. Her fiancé, rock musician Eric Draven, was killed in the attack, having been stabbed, shot and then thrown from the window of their loft apartment. A young woman named Shelly Webster has been raped and gravely wounded. On Devil's Night in Detroit, police Sergeant Albrecht surveys a crime scene. The sequels, which mostly featured different characters and none of the original cast members, were unable to match the success of the first film. The success of the film led to a media franchise that includes three sequels and a television series. A sleeper hit at the box office, it grossed $94 million on a $23 million budget, and gained a strong cult following. The Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus calls it a "visual feast". The Crow opened in theaters in the United States on May 13, 1994, to positive reviews.

The film is dedicated to Lee and his fiancée, Eliza Hutton. After Lee's death, Paramount Pictures opted out of distributing the film and the rights were picked up by Miramax, who oversaw the film's completion. As Lee had finished most of his scenes before his death, the film was completed through script rewrites, a stunt double, and digital effects. Production on The Crow was struck by tragedy when Lee was fatally wounded by a prop gun during filming. The film follows Eric Draven, a rock musician who is resurrected from the dead to seek vengeance against the gang who murdered him and his fiancée, all the while being pursued by sympathetic police officer. It stars Brandon Lee, in his final film appearance, with Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Bai Ling, Sofia Shinas, Laurence Mason, Michael Massee, Tony Todd, and Jon Polito in supporting roles. Schow and John Shirley, based on the comic of the same name by James O'Barr. The Crow is a 1994 American gothic superhero film directed by Alex Proyas and written by David J.
