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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Crypt_(comics)"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…

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…

Creepshow no es solo LA antología de terror por antonomasia (sí, estas existen casi desde el cine mudo, pero es la primera que siempre se nos viene a la cabeza), sino que es toda una carta de amor de Romero y King a los comics de EC.

Ahora, eso sí, si bien muchos de sus cortos son bastante imaginativos, contaron con algunos grandes actores y un equipo técnico que puso todo su empeño...a día de hoy su visionado puede ser un poco difícil. Muchas de las decisiones que se tomaron, especialmente en lo referente a lo estético, chocan mucho por ser casposas o simplemente tontorronas (el corto protagonizado por el tito Stephen, es especialmente escandaloso, y aún más si lo…