Creepshow 1 and 2

No mention of They're Creeping Up on You? Fantastic way to end a movie.

The first one is much more fun than the sequel. Only The Raft sequence really works in the sequel, so don't keep your hopes too high.

And whatever you do, do not watch Creepshow 3.

There was a Creepshow 3?

I must be in the minority. I dug Creepshow 2 way more than the first one. You can't beat a dead hitchhiker that's lodged under your car and keeps thanking you for the ride. That was GOLD!

I still need to see the sequel, but I think I will avoid the third one.

However, the first one is owned and well loved by me. Stephen King's bit is priceless. "Meteor shit!"

Yes, from the same studio that brought us Day of the Dead 2: Contagium.

Edit: They also did the Day of the Dead remake.

It was fantastic seeing Nielsen playing such a bastard, in contrast to how he's known now as a lovable comedic goof.

They're Creeping Up On You is the crown jewel in the anthology of the first, although they're all great.

Creepshow 2's The Raft, and The Hitchhiker are great stories as well. Pisses me off that there were only 3 stories in the second, instead of 5 like in the original, but "Thanks for the ride lady" makes up for it.

Creepshow is a fantastic collaboration between George Romero and Stephen King. The second film has its moments, particulary "The Raft". The third film is just a straight-to-video P.O.S. that has nothing to do with the first two and should pretty much be ignored. The studio behind it sure knows how to churn out the trash.

I don't recall if I've seen Creepshow 2. The first movie is pretty solid. It's one of those movies I love to watch around Halloween.

I made the mistake of watching CREEPSHOW 3 one night (my high school teacher was the male lead). Oops.

Straight-to-video movies are the Drive-in Theaters of the 21st century.


Creepshow was the last movie I saw before leaving England in 1982; I found the graphic novel at the airport when I arrived in America and snagged it. Still love that movie.


Creepshow 2 ... well, it was an interesting experience. I saw it as part of a sneak preview of House 2, where New World was conducting an audience survey of the film. After the movie we had to fill out checklist cards asking what our favorite parts of the movie were, and I remember thinking "What the hell is an Arye Gross?"

Both movies sucked ass. I was a teen, and I think I overstated my enthusiasm for House 2 because a studio had never asked my opinion before. Which just goes to show how these kinds of screenings are pointless.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure Rich Hall (the Sniglet guy) was sitting across from me in the audience at Creepshow 2.

I just saw Creepshow for the first time.
I'm with Brendan, the first 2 shorts are pretty slow and boring. Kinda hated the movie at that point. Then Leslie Nielsen comes to save it with a great performance and Hal Holbrook steals the last hour.

I didn't care much for the rest of it. It should be either much funnier or much scarier. And shorter.

You're dead to me.

How could you not like "Father's Day" or "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill"?

It's a perfect film in that it perfectly balances the fun and the scary. Tipping the scales too far in either direction would have upset that balance.

As for it being too long: It tells fives stories in two hours. None of the segments outstay their welcome, and it's miraculous that Romero and King were able to create memorable characters in the brief running times of each segment. There's no waste here and yet the stories feel complete.

I understand how you'd feel that way about it. But i felt each story was a little too long or slowly paced. The only one i really really liked was Nielsen and Danson's.

CREEPSHOW seemed notable particularly because it is such a unique animal. I can't think of another movie like it. Plus it truly captured the vibe of the pulp horror comics.

Creepshow is a perfect movie. I guess I can understand it not being your bag, but it's certainly not too slow.

Well, at least you can laugh that one of your teachers starred in an extremely horrible movie. If you see him at a high school reunion or something one day in the future, you can razz him about that.

Now, people have said things about my tastes in movies before-let's not get into that; although, I think that Tati himself would agree with that; one thing about his profile makes it clear he feels that way-but I can't say that I was blown away with Creepshow either. It wasn't awful by any means. Maybe it was just that I first saw it as an adult a few years ago, or that I saw pieces and bits of it on TV before giving it a full view, but when I finally watched it on DVD, it wasn't a "horror classic" or anything to me.

OK, so technically I didn't even really see the final segment, but as I am really not a fan of bugs, that is why I skipped ahead to the final bit. Hell, as a kid that one scene in Temple of Doom nearly made me soil my pants, to exaggerate a little bit.

Anyway, as I was saying, the movie wasn't an Instant Classic or anything. No offense Patrick, but I'd never say it was "perfect". Of course it had its moments, but there were also moments that just didn't work for me at all, like the entirety of the second segment. OK, so "meteor shit" was amusing and so was briefly seeing some old WWF wrestling being watched by King, but otherwise, that was a waste of time. At least I can say that the dance Ed Harris and his lady did to that great disco tune was memorable... I guess I thought it was also oddly paced at times and I guess that overall, when it all came together the movie wasn't as great as most people say it is, and I was let down by that.

So, you can say that I still have bad movie tastes of what have you; at least I'll say that I agree with parts of what Tati thinks about the flick.

Seconded. Whenever people ask what my favorite comic book movies are, I always throw in Creepshow. They always forget about that one.

As for any perfection in the movie itself, I think it's to be found in the tone. It perfectly walks that tightrope between scary, funny and pulpy. The stories on their own may succeed or fail depending on the viewer, but that's true for any anthology.

You're cheating, though. Because it's not actually based on a comic book.

However it certainly manages to be a live action EC comic and capture that vibe far more artfully and genuinely than the actual Tales From The Crypt series managed to do a few years later.

Creepshow improves on repeated viewings. The first time I saw it, about a year ago, I felt that is was slow (like Tati) and overrated. Since then I've watched it three more times (Which in such a time span, for me, is a lot), and my opinion of it has only improved with each viewing. I think the reason for this is that, with every successive viewing, I've been able to appreciate how Romero was able to make a pulpy, silly film, yet still have it be down-right creepy (The music score for the film is just amazing in that respect) at the same time.

Also, who doesn't love Leslie Nielson's speech about drowning!?

Creepshow, IMHO, is George A. Romero's true masterpiece. The movie is flawless. Yeah, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead are more groundbreaking but Creepshow achieves a level of perfection that few movies do. It's also one of the very few films that truly embraced comic book aesthetics along with HULK and American Splendor what with the framing, panels, split screens, transitions and text. The movie is fucking PERFECT!!!

 

Creepshow 2 is decent but has got nothing on part 1 and I never understood why Romero didn't keep this franchise in his back pocket and put one out every few years?!? I always wished that he could have pulled it together and gave us a proper third film, I choose to ignore that DTV piece of fucking shit sequel that came out a few years ago, and it seems unlikely that he ever will.

 

He didn't keep it in his back pocket because, for whatever reason, Romero walked away from his Laurel/Richard Rubinstein partnership with little more than his dick in his hand. It's why I was rooting for The Crazies remake - it's one of his only films he still owns and can make any many from. Everything from Martin to Day of the Dead are Rubinstein's to sell as he wishes, as I understand it.

I read about all of that in The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh by Paul R. Gagne. It's a great book that I wish Gagne could do an updated edition considering that it was published in 1987. Anyway, in that book, it seems Romero left because Rubinstein was more interested in building the company on Romero's name, which is why they created Tales from the Darkside purely for syndication purposes, and Romero wanted to focus on features and not get sucked into all the corporate bullshit. 

 

I'm just saying that Creepshow was Romero's biggest domestic hit and he should have put his foot down and focused on doing, say, two sequels for 84 and 86. If they were as successful as the first flick then he could have used the credit to make Day of the Dead in 1988, for the 20th anniversary of Night, with a good budget as opposed to rushing it out in 85 for 5 million while being forced to deliver an R-rated cut for distribution.