Just tell it to call you Billie, you bitch!
-Henry

Ever spend decades thinking you had seen a film, rewatch it... and then realize you had actually never seen it? Either that or I forgot everything there was to remember about the film, but how does one forget psychotic Leslie Nielsen tormenting Ted Danson and that amazing head of hair? Seems unlikely.

A goofy fun horror anthology that pays homage to those classic 50s horror comic books like Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror. The clear vision helps the quality to stay status quo across the board, but the real reason for the synergy is the whole production falls under one director and one screenwriter.

George A.…

Creepshow is a horror anthology from 1982 and did moderately well at the box office. It was directed by George Romero and written by Stephen King. The film acts as an homage to the E.C. and D.C horror comic books of the 1950's.

The film consists of 5 short stories tied together bookended by a couple of short scenes featuring a young boy who is punished by his dad (Tom Atkins) for reading a Creepshow comic. The stories are as follows:

Fathers Day:
This story follows a family get together where a story is told regarding Aunt Bedelia (who hasn't arrived yet) who allegedly killed her father due to a lifetime of being bullied and him having her sweetheart murdered.…

This is uneven (all horror anthology movies are), but I absolutely adore the way Romero leans into the comic book origins of the framing device. The editing frequently is structured so images move from panel to panel, with the aspect ratio shifting when necessary. My favourite example of this is in the opening segment about the Father's Day Curse where ol' shitbags (I can't remember the name of the dad, sorry) is framed in a tall vertical image & concurrently his daughter who is fed way the fuck up & later kills him is framed in a wide angle shot. Both of these images have border art which is sort of like a neon scuzz barbwire. There are other little things I…

A SPOILER FOR THE SOMETHING TO TIDE YOU OVER SEGMENT

I know that October's over and that but I really did desperately want to rewatch this.

I actually am annoyed I didn't get to rewatch it a couple of days ago and that work got in the way. The reason being that I first saw it back on Halloween back in 1992, a date that goes down in infamy over here as being the date when Ghostwatch was first broadcast. Compare the effort TV stations put into Halloween broadcasting now compared to over 20 years ago. Not even close, is it?

Not content with scaring the absolute shit out of me and my best friend with Ghostwatch, BBC1 then followed…

The the very first attempt at adapting EC horror Comics. Years before the more direct adaptation that was HBO's 'Tales from the Crypt' television series. It's also marks the first collaboration by George Romero and author Stephen King.

King pens the stories as well as stars in one of the film's segments. Other notable performances to watch out for are a young Ed Harris and Ted Danson. As well as a rare villain role by Leslie Nielsen.

The film is equal parts funny and scary. And both the humor and horror are gloriously over-the-top. Comic book style transitions and effects are used to capture the feeling of reading an old EC Comic. And exaggerated light effects are on full display…

The anthology format seems inherently wobbly for providing a cohesively satisfying final result, something to which I'd attributed to most entries in the genre being done by multiple filmmakers of varying quality within one film. Knowing that all segments in Creepshow were directed by George Romero (no slouch) and written by Stephen King (who i don't especially have affection for but isn't incapable of good material), I thought this might fare a little better. And it kinda does, but not quite as much as I'd like.

Truthfully, there are only two really strong pieces among the five stories found here (I'm not counting the nothing of a wrap-around with Tom Atkins), and they are "Something to Tide You Over" and…

I was in the mood for some easy going, make-up effects driven, horror comedy- so I went Creepshow.... a movie I have fond memories of-  now this is an uneven bag, and as a whole I’m slightly underwhelmed as some bits frankly board me, but when it hits- it does bring back happy memories of watching the old VHS and I’d say 2 segments are excellent and make the full anthology fine... although if I’m honest, I’d probably try to keep the good memories going forward and just watch the ‘chapters’ I like: my breakdown:
The wrap around is great in a darkly fascinating way and sets expectations high, especially as you really do think of the cool posters and…