Creepshow

2.00
    Creepshow
    1982

    Synopsis

    Five tales in the style of classic '50s horror comics, involving a murdered man emerging from the grave, a meteor's ooze that makes everything grow, a snack for a crated creature, a scheming husband, and a malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia.

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    Cast

    • Hal HolbrookHenry Northrup (segment "The Crate")
    • Adrienne BarbeauWilma Northrup (segment "The Crate")
    • Fritz WeaverDexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
    • Leslie NielsenRichard Vickers (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
    • Carrie NyeSylvia Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
    • E.G. MarshallUpson Pratt (segment "They're Creeping Up On You")
    • Viveca LindforsAunt Bedelia (segment "Father's Day")
    • Ed HarrisHank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
    • Ted DansonHarry Wentworth (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
    • Stephen KingJordy Verrill (segment "The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill")

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Empire

      Genuinely creepy, satirical and occasionally daft horror tales with a distinctly moral bent.
    • 80

      Variety

      George Romero, collaborating with writer Stephen King, again proves his adeptness at combining thrills with tongue-in-cheek humor.
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      What they've done here is to recapture not only the look and the storylines of old horror comics, but also the peculiar feeling of poetic justice that permeated their pages. In an EC horror story, unspeakable things happened to people - but, for the most part, they deserved them.
    • 75

      Miami Herald

      The film has fun. In a way, Creepshow is a horror for grownups. It is grownups, after all, who understand that horror stories must be fun; if they're not, then they're just horrifying, and who wants that? [15 Nov 1982, p.D3]
    • 70

      Washington Post

      Most of the time Creepshow works.
    • 63

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      Creepshow is probably not everything the fans of each horrormeister hoped it would be (it is not, for example, in the same league as Cavalcanti's great anthology film, Dead of Night), but it's probably enough.[10 Nov 1982]
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      King's stories are nothing special, and with the exception of the final entry, nothing in the film is particulary scary.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      The best things about Creepshow are its carefully simulated comic-book tackiness and the gusto with which some good actors assume silly positions. Horror film purists may object to the levity even though failed, as a lot of it is.

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