The first Creepshow film - based on the old Weird Tales/EC Comics of the 50's - was a big budget all star anthology film. It was a collaboration between George A Romero and Stephen King (who even starred in one of the stories) and had stars like Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Ed Harris.
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all! In Old Chief Wood'nhead!, kindly storekeepers (screen legends George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour) are slaughtered by hoodlums and unleash a most unexpected a...
The most fun you'll ever have being scared! Two macabre masters - writer Stephen King and ... more
director George A. Romero - conjure up five shocking yarns each a virtuoso exercise in the ghouls-and-gags style of classic '50s horror comics. A murdered man emerges from the grave for Father's Day cake. A meteor's ooze makes everything... grow. A professor selects his wife as a snack for a crated creature. A scheming husband plants two lovers up to their necks in terror. A malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia becomes the prey of a cockroach army. Add the spirited performances of a fine cast (Hal Holbrook Adrienne Barbeau Leslie Nielsen Ted Danson E.G. Marshall and King himself) and the ghoulish makeup wizardry of Tom Savini. Let the Creepshow begin!
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Romero-directed 1982 original, Romero shifted jobs to become the screenwriter, earning King (who also has a goony cameo as a trucker) a "based on stories by" credit. Cinematographer Michael Gornick stepped up to make an uninspiring directorial debut, turning out a conventional TV-look picture unlike the sometimes strikingCreepshow.A frame story mixes live action and cartoon as a small boy leafs through the latest issue of his favourite horror comic while plotting revenge against neighbourhood bullies. A pun-dropping host called the Creep (played by Tom Savini when not a cartoon) introduces three anecdotes. In "Old Chief Wooden Head", George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour are kindly Western shopkeepers killed by tearaways and avenged by the wooden Indian which stands outside the place. In "The Raft", four obnoxious teens are terrorised on a lake by a hungry slime-monster. And in "The Hitch-Hiker", hit-and-run driver Lois Chiles is haunted by her squashed victim, who keeps reappearing in a progressively battered forms. Though King and Romero deliver a good mix of cynical and melodramatic dialogue, the stories are disappointingly thin and predictable, with especially weak punch-lines. Of the performers, only Chiles really works up the hysterical attack needed to play a comic book character.On the DVD:just a trailer. The picture is a fullscreen print that cuts off crucial details in the comic book panels. --Kim Newman
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Romero-directed 1982 original, Romero shifted jobs to become the screenwriter, earning King (who also has a goony cameo as a trucker) a "based on stories by" credit. Cinematographer Michael Gornick stepped up to make an uninspiring directorial debut, turning out a conventional TV-look picture unlike the sometimes strikingCreepshow.A frame story mixes live action and cartoon as a small boy leafs through the latest issue of his favourite horror comic while plotting revenge against neighbourhood bullies. A pun-dropping host called the Creep (played by Tom Savini when not a cartoon) introduces three anecdotes. In "Old Chief Wooden Head", George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour are kindly Western shopkeepers killed by tearaways and avenged by the wooden Indian which stands outside the place. In "The Raft", four obnoxious teens are terrorised on a lake by a hungry slime-monster. And in "The Hitch-Hiker", hit-and-run driver Lois Chiles is haunted by her squashed victim, who keeps reappearing in a progressively battered forms. Though King and Romero deliver a good mix of cynical and melodramatic dialogue, the stories are disappointingly thin and predictable, with especially weak punch-lines. Of the performers, only Chiles really works up the hysterical attack needed to play a comic book character.On the DVD:just a trailer. The picture is a fullscreen print that cuts off crucial details in the comic book panels. --Kim Newman
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Inspired by the controversial E.C. Comics of the 1950s--which also provided the title and ... more
inspiration for the popularTales from the CryptTV series--director George Romero and screenwriter Stephen King serve up five delightfully frightful stories. Utilising comic-book panels, animated segues, and exaggerated lighting and camera angles, Romero and cinematographer Michael Gornick come very close to replicating a horror comic in film format. The results mix fine acting with the morbid sense of humour and irony that made the E.C. books so popular in their heyday. Actors such as Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, Ted Danson, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris, E.G. Marshall, and even King appear in the stories, which include tales of a sinister father's day celebration, a mysterious meteor, seaweed-draped zombies, a monster in a crate, and a cockroach-phobic millionaire. Fiendishly fun fare from one of horror's most famous directors. --Bryan Reesman
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Inspired by the controversial E.C. Comics of the 1950s--which also provided the title and ... more
inspiration for the popularTales from the CryptTV series--director George Romero and screenwriter Stephen King serve up five delightfully frightful stories. Utilising comic-book panels, animated segues, and exaggerated lighting and camera angles, Romero and cinematographer Michael Gornick come very close to replicating a horror comic in film format. The results mix fine acting with the morbid sense of humour and irony that made the E.C. books so popular in their heyday. Actors such as Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, Ted Danson, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris, E.G. Marshall, and even King appear in the stories, which include tales of a sinister father's day celebration, a mysterious meteor, seaweed-draped zombies, a monster in a crate, and a cockroach-phobic millionaire. Fiendishly fun fare from one of horror's most famous directors. --Bryan Reesman
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ForCreepshow 2, the quickie 1987 sequel to the Stephen King-scripted/George ... more
Romero-directed 1982 original, Romero shifted jobs to become the screenwriter, earning King (who also has a goony cameo as a trucker) a "based on stories by" credit. Cinematographer Michael Gornick stepped up to make an uninspiring directorial debut, turning out a conventional TV-look picture unlike the sometimes strikingCreepshow.A frame story mixes live action and cartoon as a small boy leafs through the latest issue of his favourite horror comic while plotting revenge against neighbourhood bullies. A pun-dropping host called the Creep (played by Tom Savini when not a cartoon) introduces three anecdotes. In "Old Chief Wooden Head", George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour are kindly Western shopkeepers killed by tearaways and avenged by the wooden Indian which stands outside the place. In "The Raft", four obnoxious teens are terrorised on a lake by a hungry slime-monster. And in "The Hitch-Hiker", hit-and-run driver Lois Chiles is haunted by her squashed victim, who keeps reappearing in a progressively battered forms. Though King and Romero deliver a good mix of cynical and melodramatic dialogue, the stories are disappointingly thin and predictable, with especially weak punch-lines. Of the performers, only Chiles really works up the hysterical attack needed to play a comic book character.On the DVD:just a trailer. The picture is a fullscreen print that cuts off crucial details in the comic book panels. --Kim Newman
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The first Creepshow film - based on the old Weird Tales/EC Comics of the 50's - was a big budget all star anthology film. It was a collaboration between George A Romero and Stephen King (who even starred in one of the stories) and had stars like Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Ed Harris.
This one has no stars - no decent director but surprisingly a screenplay from George A Romero and the last segment The Raft actually written by King (who ... ...to the original.
The stories are basic and bland - the first one has a Wooden Red Indian that you see outside US stores in films like this, coming to life to kill those who robbed and killed the storeowner, the 2nd, The Raft, has a group of generic teens terrorised by a black blob that looks like oil slick whilst sunning themselves on a raft in a lake and the final one is a rip off of an old Hammer House of Horror story from their ... more
The first Creepshow film - based on the old Weird Tales/EC Comics of the 50's - was a big budget all star anthology film. It was a collaboration between George A Romero and Stephen King (who even starred in one of the stories) and had stars like Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Ed Harris.
This one has no stars - no decent director but surprisingly a screenplay from George A Romero and the last segment The Raft actually written by King (who I dont rate very highly anyway) and no imagination compared to the original.
The stories are basic and bland - the first one has a Wooden Red Indian that you see outside US stores in films like this, coming to life to kill those who robbed and killed the storeowner, the 2nd, The Raft, has a group of generic teens terrorised by a black blob that looks like oil slick whilst sunning themselves on a raft in a lake and the final one is a rip off of an old Hammer House of Horror story from their 70's magazine - hit and run driver is haunted by the man she ran over.
They are enjoyable in a daft way but are just too boring and short to enter the hallowed hall of fame that includes all other so bad they're good horror films.
Dont waste your brain power or eyesight on this cynical cash-in.
Advantages: Quite scary in parts Disadvantages: Sometimes unbelievable, some bits are naff
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{2} THE RAFT - Four teens, Laverne, Deke, Rache and Randy take a trip to a beach where a raft is stationed in the middle of a lake. They swim out to it but are alrmed by an oil slick floating on the lake - Rachel prods at the thing and it shoots up her arm, dissolving her flesh - t then pulls her into the lake. The oter are shocked and Deke makes a bid for an escape but is caught by the thing by the ankle - it pulls him down snapping him in half. Laverne and Randy take turns overnight watching it. In the morning Randy takes advantage of a sleeping Laverne but she begins to murmur and Randy sees that half her face has been taken over by the thing - it pulls her off the raft but she tells Randy to make a break for it. He dives off the raft with the thing in hot pursuit - he makes it to the shore and taunts the thing - it ...
Advantages: 3 tales of terror... Disadvantages: ..woven together by a cartoon story
This film is a marked improvement upon the original, and thereore enters the club for sequels better than the original alongside such greats as Godfather2, Aliens, and The Empire Strikes Back! Sorry no it's not that good. There are 3 stories here, tied together with a cartoon story, that is a bit naff. The first story proper is quite entertaining. In a small town a group of youths raid a store, so the wooden indian on the balcony comes to live and hunts them down, killing them one by one.
Next up is a story of some teenagers that swim out to a raft on a lake, only to find that an oil slick is following them, and trying to eat them. It can even come up between the cracks in the raft, so they have to be careful. When there is only one left he decides to swim for shore...
The final story is about a woman that runs down a hitch-hiker who ...
Director Audio Commentary, Nightmares In Foam Rubber Documentary, Make Up Artists Interviews, Biographies, Film Notes, My Friend Rick Interview, Theatrical Trailers
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DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
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DVD Description
Three more short horror stories written by Stephen King: 'Old Chief Wood'nhead', 'The Hitchhiker' and 'The Raft'.
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