Creepshow (Snap Case Packaging)
by George A. Romero
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Actor: Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Ted DansonDirector: George A. Romero
Brand: KING,STEPHEN
Writer: Stephen King
Cinematographer: Michael Gornick
Editor: George A. Romero
Editor: Michael Spolan
Producer: David E. Vogel
Producer: Richard P. Rubinstein
Producer: Salah M. Hassanein
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Creepshow (Snap Case Packaging)
Movie Review: It will tickle your funnybone...
Summary: 5 Stars
From the portal that are the wind-blown pages of comic book fane, the skeletal phantom stares outside your window beckoning you into the underworld of darkened imagination. Grasp the boney hand of your robed host and be ushered into the theatre of nightmares...
Prologue: Why God Made Fathers.
A brutish father berates his boy about possessing a copy of a "Creepshow" comic book, lifting a hand to him when admonished about the girlie magazines he himself keeps in his underwear drawer. Even with an apology, the man disposes of the boy's precious acquisition in the trash-can outdoors, to which infernal progeny utters his curse, accompanied by his daemonic projection, which leads us into the first tale...
I. Father's Day.
Family secrets are unearthed at the reading of a will wherein a murdered father takes his revenge upon his killer, his very own sister, as well as his vulturous and pretentious relatives seeking to pick his monetary legacy clean; his rotting corpse rises from the grave to claim his prize...all he wanted was his cake, with an additional main course included on a platter...
II. The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.
Stephen King plays an isolated hick who witnesses a meteor fall to earth, and forthwith opportunistically seeks to sell it, in his ignorance, to the so-called "Department of Meteors" at a local college, but ends up cracking it, thus releasing a luminous alien solution which causes everything it touches to sprout a vicious moss-like substance, including Jordy himself. Fearing doctors will amputate his infected hand, he opts for intoxication instead, and subsequent suicide, but not before receiving a "visitation" - a drunken hallucination from his deceased preacher father who appears in a mirror, warning that Jordy not immerse himself in the bathtub, that he would be "signing his own death warrant", but he does anyway, causing him to be covered in the vegitation, and so perishes, begging "God" that his luck may be good enough to accomplish this act "just this once", and so his wish is granted. Amusingly, the constant and ubiquitous drone of the Letharginator announces increased rainfall, upon which the green plague subsists and spreads; ironically commenting to viewers that the county will turn green so fast, that it will be miraculous...
III. Something to Tide You Over.
A man named "Richard" {Leslie Nielsen} gains revenge upon his cheating wife by burying she and her lover "Harry" {Ted Danson} to the neck at the beach at low tide; which will of course, eventually yield full saturation, and it is all recorded on film for his entertainment. As an additionally amusing touch, he positions a monitor where Harry can see his adulterous lover being submerged by the waves. He vows revenge, and returns along with the girl, as seaweed-draped zombies seeking his death, to which Richard is driven insane...
IV. The Crate.
A gutless hen-pecked Professor siezes the opportunity to be rid of his overbearing wife via a demonic creature in a crate, luring her into its jaws that tear limb from limb, after which he ingraciously throws it into the lake, but you just can't keep a good monster down...
I must remark about the appearence of this creature, which is one of the most fearsome in cinema to date {kudos to Tom Savini}, almost rivalling Rawhead Rex, and would make for a wonderful pet.
V. They're Creeping Up On You.
An isolated acarophobic stockbroker penned -up in a skyscraper faces a pernicious legion of roaches who stop at nothing to infest his secured and safe-guarded room, despite his efforts at extermination. The widow of a man he drove into ruin utters a curse, and thus his nightmares consume him, from the inside-out...
VI. Needling Dad.
Two garbage men {the moustached one played by prop-master extraordinnaire Tom Savini} find the Creepshow comic book which is as Billy's incremental bible, and find that the "authentic Voodoo doll" offer has been excised to order. The little devil-child Billy pierces the effigy of his 'dad', causing sharp stabs of pain to assail him with incapacitating torment. And thus with the accompanyment of his grim companion of the night, Billy happily gains his revenge: "I'll teach you to take My comic books..." "...ready for another shot, dad?" and he deserved it.
I really enjoyed the segueways between the stories as well, in which the demon winds turn the pages, displaying all of those fun gadgets and offers reminiscent of The Johnson-Smith Catalog, and then onto the next tale of terror and joy. The DVD also contains the theatrical preview which should probably be seen first. Of note, Creepshow 2 is just about as good as the first, so for more ghoulish entertainment, it also comes highly recommended.
Summary of Creepshow (Snap Case Packaging)
Two macabre masters - writer Stephen King and director George A. Romero - conjure up five shocking yarns, each a virtuoso exercise in the ghouls-and-gags style of classic '50s horror comics. A murdered man emerges from the grave for Father's Day cake. A meteor's ooze makes everything ... grow. A professor selects his wife as a snack for a crated creature. A scheming husband plants two lovers up to their necks in terror. A malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia becomes the prey of a cockroach army. Add the spirited performances of a fine cast (Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, E.G. Marshall and King himself) and the ghoulish makeup wizardry of Tom Savini. Let the Creepshow begin.DVD Features:
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Theatrical Trailer
Inspired by the controversial E.C. Comics of the 1950s--which also provided the title and inspiration for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series--director George Romero and screenwriter Stephen King serve up five delightfully frightful stories. Utilizing comic-book panels, animated segues, and exaggerated lighting and camera angles, Romero and cinematographer Michael Gornick come very close to replicating a horror comic in film format. The results mix fine acting with the morbid sense of humor and irony that made the E.C. books so popular in their heyday. Actors such as Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, Ted Danson, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris, E.G. Marshall, and even King appear in the stories, which include tales of a sinister father's day celebration, a mysterious meteor, seaweed-draped zombies, a monster in a crate, and a cockroach-phobic millionaire. Fiendishly fun fare from one of horror's most famous directors. --Bryan Reesman
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