Creepshow (1982)

Too much of everything

How sad is this?

Boring

The acting in this movie is really good.

This was fun to re-watch! All 5 stories have their high points, and low points, but the campiness of it all is a treat! The special effects are rubbery, the soundtrack goofy, and the whole attempt to make it look comic booky is spookily effective! Leslie Nielsen and Hal Holbrook as bad guys? Awesome! And Adrienne Barbeau is perfecty as the harpy wife! As is a foul mouthed E.G. Marshall in his role! Now I want to re-read the book. No one better have thrown it away...

Creepshow (8/10) A horror anthology brought together by two of the most renowned minds in horror, Stephen King and George A. Romero. The first of five stories is the super cheesy "Father's Day", a great way to kick off the series of spook stories. Next was Something To Tide You Over, which in my opinion has the best writing and dialogue of the bunch. We also see E.G. Marshall and Stephen King star as the lone character in their respective stories, which is about a fast invasive space plant species' and an apartment being overrun by cockroaches that symbolize the cities minority community. The most notable segment is the fan favorite called The Crate led by Hal Holbrook, the lovely Adrienne Barbeau and a wicked, little man-eating arctic monster. The movie as a whole keeps the viewer interested since the stories are so short and the dark comedy is persistently good. If I were to rank the stories it would go Something To Tide You Over, The Crate, Father's Day, The Lonesome Death of Jody Verrill, They're Creeping Up On You.

With direction by George Romero and writing by Stephen King you are getting the best of the best in this horror anthology of six stories in Creepshow.Of the six four are concerned with vengeance of one sort or another. The other two are one man shows and really good ones about people being overwhelmed by extraordinary circumstances.Author Stephen King heavily made up plays this hillbilly rustic who gets the bad luck of having an encounter with a meteorite. With him it's like that old song on Hee Haw, "if weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all". Seems as though contact with the stuff inside the meteorite turns everything into plant life.The best is for last though and it couldn't never have been made while Howard Hughes was alive. The story concerns eccentric billionaire E.G. Marshall who lives hermetically sealed like Hughes with an overriding fear of our six legged creature. After having endured an attack of bedbugs in my dwelling two years ago I kind of related to what Marshall was going through. His fear is cockroaches and in the end he gets his comeuppance from same. If your taste runs to black comedy you can't help not liking Creepshow although you may find the other segments better than my favorites.

Billy is punished for reading comic horror Creepshow. The Creep invites him to five tales. In Father's Day, the old patriarch Nathan Grantham was killed by his daughter Bedelia. During a family gathering, Nathan is resurrected and takes revenge while getting the cake. In 'The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill', Jordy Verrill (Stephen King) is a dimwit farmer who finds a meteorite and is soon overcome with extraterrestrial plant life. In 'Something to Tide You Over', wealthy Richard Vickers (Leslie Nielsen) takes revenge on his wife and her lover Harry Wentworth (Ted Danson) by burying them up to their necks in the beach. In 'The Crate', college professor Henry Northup (Hal Holbrook) is informed of a deadly creature inside of a crate and he sees an easy way to get rid of his hateful wife Wilma (Adrienne Barbeau). In 'They're Creeping Up on You', ruthless business Upson Pratt (E. G. Marshall) has sealed himself up in his high tech apartment due to his germophobia. There is a blackout and his apartment is overrun by cockroaches.The first two tales are forgettable. The third one burying alive Ted Danson is not. It is the most compelling tale in the whole movie. It works on every level from the acting to the writing. The fourth one has a couple of interesting actors and the last one is creepy as hell. I'm not that afraid of bugs but people who do would really get unhinged over that one. The wrap-around story with Billy could probably be better. I'm sure they could have found a better actor than Stephen King's son. Teaming up horror icons like George A. Romero and Stephen King doesn't guarantee anything but this one worked out great.