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Creepshow (1982)

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User Rating: 6.4/10 (8,807 votes)
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Overview

Director:
George A. Romero
Writer:
Stephen King (screenplay)
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Release Date:
12 November 1982 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Most Fun You'll Ever Have... BEING SCARED! more
Plot:
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A.Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
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User Comments:
It's pretty good more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cuentos de ultratumba (USA: Spanish title)
Stephen King's Creepshow (International: English title) (long title)
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Runtime:
120 min | USA:130 min (approx.) (Original Workprint)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Netherlands:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Norway:18 (video premiere) (1984) | Norway:(Banned) (video) (1986) | Norway:(Banned) (1983-2003) (cinema release)
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Trivia:
Cameo: [Joe King](son of Stephen King) The young boy featured in the beginning of the film (avid reader and collector of "Creepshow" comic books). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Hank enters the graveyard to look for Aunt Bedilia, the hanging lantern (which Bedilia had previously hit her hat on) has now gone. more
Quotes:
Nathan Grantham: [beginning of a flashback sequence] Where's... my cake? I... want... my... cake! Where's my cake, Bedelia? Where's my Father's Day cake? I want my cake you dirty BITCH! I'm going to have it!
Nathan Grantham: [Nathan clacking his cane, bellowing] BEDELIA! It's Father's Day! Where's my cake? You promised me my cake! Bedelia, I'm your father and you're supposed to be taking care of me!
Bedelia Grantham: [distressed, almost driven to the point of madness] I DON'T HEAR YOU! I SAID I DON'T HEAR YOU!
Nathan Grantham: BEDELIA, YOU BITCH! What do you think I've got you here for? You're just like all the others - you're nothing but a bunch of VULTURES!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in WildCat (2007) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Gaudeamus Igitur more

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19 out of 23 people found the following comment useful:-
It's pretty good, 1 November 2005
7/10

Despite some major problems (mainly contained in Stephen King's uneven and often heavy-handed script), this is still a pretty fun attempt to bring 1950s EC horror comics to the big screen. One of the best things about it is director George ('Night of the Living Dead') Romero's creative, vivid direction, that captures the bright color schemes and comic book framing to a tee. Each tale has a different horror theme usually tempered with some comedy and ranging from a rich patriarch returning from the dead to get revenge on his obnoxious family to a meteor that causes an outbreak of vegetation to a fanged, ape-like creature that's been locked away in a crate for decades. All five of the tales presented, despite some missteps, offer up good gory fun. Some of the acting is good, too, particularly Adrienne Barbeau as a heavy drinking, obnoxious faculty wife who gets what she deserves, Hal Holbrook as her hen-pecked husband and E.G. Marshall as a wealthy, obsessively clean old jerk who is savaged in his futuristic apartment by a legion of cockroaches. Talk about flesh crawling! Tom Savini's special effects are great, as usual.

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