Cuckolded millionaire Richard Vickers ( Leslie Nielsen, just before he become synonymous with comedy) buries his wife ( Gaylen Ross, Dawn of the Dead) and her lover ( Ted Danson, Cheers) up to the neck in sand and waits for the tide to come in, but the sea won’t quench their thirst for vengeance.īased on King’s 1979 short story of the same name, “The Crate” is the longest - and most developed - segment at 38 minutes. “Something to Tide You Over” employs the same hook as the first segment - the dead returning from the grave for retribution - but with better execution and more tension. King’s comic performance isn’t bad per se, but it’s over-the-top even in comparison to the heightened reality in which the rest of the movie exists. It’s not long before a grass-like substance begins to engulf his entire being. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”), the plot centers on the titular bumpkin who discovers a meteorite on his farm. As such, it was a big swing to cast him as the lead in “ The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.” Based on King’s 1976 short story “Weeds” (itself a riff on H. King would later make appearances in several adaptations of his work, but prior to Creepshow his only acting experience was a brief cameo in Romero’s Knightriders a year earlier. Unfortunately for all involved, the zombified Nathan returns for revenge… and cake. Hank Blaine ( Ed Harris, The Abyss) meets his new wife’s family at their annual Father’s Day gathering, where he learns about the open secret that Aunt Bedelia ( Viveca Lindfors, Stargate) killed her abusive father, Nathan ( John Amplas, Day of the Dead), and distributed his fortune among the rest of the family. “Father’s Day” tells the story of a different breed of dysfunctional family. Beckoned by the silent host known as The Creep, the tales within the discarded comic serve as the anthology’s segments. The Halloween-set framing story finds a disparaging father (genre legend Tom Atkins, sans signature mustache) lambasting his son (a young Joe Hill, King’s son and now a bestselling author himself) for reading horror comics before throwing away the latest issue of Creepshow. With both creators having grown up on EC horror comics of the 1950s like Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, and The Haunt of Fear, it made sense that an homage to those works would bring the two titans of terror together.Ĭreepshow packs five tales (three originals and two adapted from existing King short stories) plus a wraparound that bookends the film in two hours flat. Romero and Stephen King - two undisputed masters in their respective fields, each in their prime - finally collaborated in 1982. After several stalled attempts to work together, George A. Although far from the first horror anthology, Creepshow quickly established itself as the quintessential one.
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