The Crow (2024)

Eric, an addict with a troubled childhood, struggles with life and nightmares at a rehabilitation center. Shelly, a musician with similar issues, receives a video on her cell phone from her friend Zadie that incriminates Vincent Roeg, a crime lord posing as a musical aristocrat. Choosing to save the video, despite knowing that possessing it would lead to her death, Shelly attempts to go into hiding but is immediately pursued by Roeg's henchmen. They break their pursuit when Shelly is arrested for drug possession.

Zadie is captured and interrogated by Roeg. He reveals that, centuries earlier, he had made a pact with the Devil to send innocent souls to Hell in exchange for eternal life. He forces Zadie to kill herself by whispering incantations in her ear. Shelly is sent to the same rehab center where Eric is situated. The two become smitten with each other and bond over time. When Marion, Roeg's right-hand woman, suddenly appears at the institution, Shelly panics and convinces Eric to help her escape. They take refuge in the vacant house of one of Shelly's friends, and the two quickly fall in love and attempt to live a carefree life together, but are soon found by Roeg's men and murdered.

Eric awakens in a purgatory-like rail yard where Kronos, a spirit guide, explains that Eric will have to kill Roeg to be reunited with Shelly. Revived, Eric discovers that he possesses the ability to heal from injuries, but can still be hurt or killed. He first kills Detective Milch, a corrupt cop on Roeg's payroll, and attempts to force another hitman, Lex, to give up names, but winds up killing him. Eric visits Sophia, Shelly's mother, who was present with Marion at the rehab center. Sophia reveals that she made a deal with Roeg: wealth in exchange for Shelly's soul. After Eric leaves, Roeg visits Sophia to inquire about Eric but forces her to jump off the roof when she revealed she regretted their deal. Eric meets with Shelly's friend, Chance, who presents him Shelly's phone with the incriminating video revealing that Roeg had previously compelled Shelly to kill a woman. Roeg learns of Eric's supernatural abilities and orders Marion to capture him alive in order to seize Eric's powers. Suddenly doubting his love for Shelly, Eric loses his ability to heal and is again killed by Roeg's enforcer, Wickham, who was supposed to take him alive, and Chance is killed, too. Returned to the afterlife, Kronos warns Eric that their love has to be pure and calls it off, so Eric makes a deal with Kronos to take Shelly's place in Hell in exchange for another chance to kill Roeg. The crows agree as Kronos bestows Eric with Black Blood, giving Eric immense power and the ability to move between worlds.

Eric reawakens and kills off Wickham and his hit team, then tracks Marion to an opera house, savagely killing all of Roeg's men to reach her. Marion reluctantly discloses Roeg's location before Eric decapitates her and her bodyguard, Roman. Eric interrupts the opera's final bow as he tosses their heads from the stage into the audience. Eric finally reaches Roeg's estate where Roeg subdues Eric and attempts to steal his powers before Eric transports them both to the afterlife, where he quickly finishes Roeg and saves Shelly's soul.

After a brief reunion between the lovers, Shelly is revived on the night of their deaths and mourns for Eric after Kronos, disguised as a medic, tells her that he gave his life for her. Eric accepts his fate, content in his belief that their souls will one day find each other again.