Creepshow 2

    Creepshow 2
    1987

    Synopsis

    The rotting Creep himself is back with three new gruesome tales of horror that will make your skin crawl; a cigar store wooden Indian comes to life to avenge the store owner's brutal murder at the hands of three punks in "Old Chief Wood'nhead." The chills continue with "The Hitchhiker," The chilling tale of a woman who keeps running into, and over, the same mutilated man on a lonely road.

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    Cast

    • Lois ChilesAnnie Lansing
    • George KennedyRay Spruce
    • Dorothy LamourMartha Spruce
    • Daniel BeerRandy
    • Jeremy GreenLaverne
    • Page HannahRachel
    • Don HarveyAndy Cavanaugh
    • David HolbrookFatso Gribbens
    • Stephen KingTruck Driver
    • Holt McCallanySam Whitemoon

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Chicago Reader

      A second helping of horror tales inspired by an old 50s comic-book series. Original Creepshow director George Romero contributes the screenplay this time, basing it on some tastefully selected Stephen King morsels.
    • 70

      IGN

      Working from a script written by original helmer Romero based on a trilogy of lesser works by King, Creepshow 2 is a satisfying little anthology of terror that won't scare you so much as entertain you.
    • 63

      Miami Herald

      The production values are downright dowdy. Creepshow looks more like Cheapshow. Yet the strong writing offsets the film's weaknesses. Creepshow 2 may not have the major-league excitement of The Exorcist or Aliens, but in its own right, it succeeds. The persistent screams from the audience tell you that. [13 May 1987, p.D7]
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      Creepshow 2 is a cut-rate sequel from those two popular masters of horror, Stephen King and George Romero, that plays like leftovers. Fans of both deserve better. The second--and the only one of the three stories that King has published--is the best. This vignette is effective because it's simple and suspenseful, but it's not enough to carry the whole movie.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      The episodes are marginally interesting, but each is a little too long. And each could be fully explained in a one-sentence synopsis.
    • 38

      Chicago Tribune

      The film's main fare is three Stephen King horror stories, presented as comic books come to life. Stringing them together are scenes about an all- American youngster, a Creepshow comics fan who outwits the neighborhood bullies with his mail-order Venus flytraps. The Creep, who delivers the comics, acts as host for this anthology. It's a complicated framing device, but it puts the film squarely in the camp of kids' movies. [07 May 1987, p.3C]
    • 30

      Washington Post

      King and Romero -- the horror genre's equivalent of the daily double -- are back on the storyboard for 2, but with director Michael Gornick in charge, 2 goes nowhere slowly. Part of the problem is that King's short stories simply work better in print.
    • 30

      Time Out London

      First-timer Gornick's direction is so painfully inept that not one of the episodes is even slightly scary, let alone horrifying. The only terrifying thing about Creepshow 2 is the thought of Creepshow 3.

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