Stephen King's Creepshow

THE MOST FUN YOU’LL EVER HAVE BEING SCARED!

Stephen King’s Creepshow
A George Romero presentation
Film Length : 115 minutes
Film Certificate : 18 (UK)
Produced : 1982
RRP : ŁDELETED
Out on Video Club VHS
Others in the series : Creepshow 2

‘From the blood-dripping pen of Stephen King, the man who brought you "The Shining" and "Cujo" comes Creepshow - directed by George A. Romero of "Night of the Living Dead" and "Zombies" fame. When a young boy’s horror comic is thrown away by his father, a spectre-like ‘host’ appears and, flipping through the pages, introduces a new dimension in fear at every turn. As the five stories within Creepshow unfold, each episode becomes more terrifying than the last: The Father’s Day celebration from beyond the grave.... The meteor that is more than meets the eye... A jealous husband’s terrible revenge that backfires... The crate marked 1834 in which something still lives... The ruthless millionaire destined to be plagued and finally, the young boy’s vengeance on his father who threw away the precious comic that was Creepshow. Creepshow is a horror omnibus that will make your flesh creep!’ Creepshow is like a film of twilight zone episodes, except this time all of the episodes are good. Stephen King stars in one of the stories as usual, and the gore is good overall, especially the story of the crate. A janitor drops a penny under some steps in a university, and when he goes to crawl under the stairs, he finds an old crate marked 1834, that has supposedly been there for a while. He enlists the help of a professor to help him to open the crate, hearing noises from withing that lead him to believing that a monkey is inside, but when he peers inside, a large ape-beast eats him and a couple of other people before it is trapped and thrown into a quarry. There are 2 zombie storeys, one about a Father who was killed on father’s day because he did not get a cake, and was going mad about it, and the other about a jealous husband (Lesley Neilsen) who buries his wife and lover on the beach, but they return and do the same to him. The other stories are about some bugs that get fed up of this posh bloke killing them, so they kill him, and one with Stephen King in about a meteor that makes hair / grass grow everywhere. A funny, gory, solid movie.

9.0 out of 10

By Mickey Durneme

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