The test of time hasn’t been very kind to the rest of “The Crow” franchise in the years since the aforementioned sequels rolled out. 1996’s “The Crow: City of Angels” sports a 14% critical approval rating and a 40% audience consensus score on Rotten Tomatoes. 2000’s “The Crow: Salvation” fared a little better with audiences; 43% of Rotten Tomatoes viewers liked it, and critics gave it an 18% score. “The Crow: Wicked Prayer” provides the franchise with its lowest critical watermark at 0%; audiences responded with a 35% approval score.
All of those splats mean one thing: while the franchises weren’t popular with critics or audiences in a retroactive manner, they still had enough pull at the box office and in video stores to spawn further vengence-centered sequels. And it didn’t take a lot of cash to excite producers; “The Crow: City of Angels” made over $17 million worldwide, enough to spawn a short-lived syndicated series, “The Crow: Stairway to Heaven.” In short: don’t count out Bill Skarsgård and his feathery flock just yet.
