Five short stories by horror master Stephen King are arranged here in comic book form and directed by George A. Romero, famous for his legendary Dead' trilogy.
This film seems to have a rather large following but I personally fail to see why. Each story has an overabundant amount of cheesiness to it in a similar vein to the short segments of The Twilight Zone' movie of the following year, perhaps we see where the Zone took it's inspiration from. However, the stories are just too goofy to be taken seriously and many become confusing or just plain tedious.
Ted Danson and Leslie Neilsen starred in the only story that I really had any interest in and even they failed to save this movie. There isn't really much that can be said about this movie because of the way it is presented unless every story is analysed which could just spoil the movie for those that want to see it. I will say that this is certainly not Romero or King's best and is probably only worth watching for fans of camp horror. Creepshow is a below average horror movie with both bad effects and good. The segments are pretty boring with the exception of Something to Tide You Over' and this movie should probably be ignored by casual fans. My rating for Creepshow' 4/10.
This film seems to have a rather large following but I personally fail to see why. Each story has an overabundant amount of cheesiness to it in a similar vein to the short segments of The Twilight Zone' movie of the following year, perhaps we see where the Zone took it's inspiration from. However, the stories are just too goofy to be taken seriously and many become confusing or just plain tedious.
Ted Danson and Leslie Neilsen starred in the only story that I really had any interest in and even they failed to save this movie. There isn't really much that can be said about this movie because of the way it is presented unless every story is analysed which could just spoil the movie for those that want to see it. I will say that this is certainly not Romero or King's best and is probably only worth watching for fans of camp horror. Creepshow is a below average horror movie with both bad effects and good. The segments are pretty boring with the exception of Something to Tide You Over' and this movie should probably be ignored by casual fans. My rating for Creepshow' 4/10.