This is your typical film production picture book, with plenty of full color production stills and photos from the film, interspersed with interviews and descriptions of the production. There are, however, a couple of aspects to this book that makes it a bit more of an interesting read. The first is that the book does take some time looking at the comic book origins of the film and James O'Barr's work, in both a visual and thematic sense. Then considering that Brandon Lee was killed during the filming of The Crow by an improperly prepared prop gun, part of this book goes into not just how the film was completed using digital images of Lee in key bridge scenes, but how major cuts to the full story-line, such as the loss of Skull Cowboy, Including discussions with screenwriter David J. Schow about how those changes came about and what they meant to the finished project. The attention to these aspects of the production elevate this to a status higher than film fan scrapbook, and make it a real document of a permanent entry into film-making history. ( )