CREEPSHOW
A film review by David Wilcock
Copyright 1997 David Wilcock
DIRECTED BY GEORGE A. ROMERO SCREENPLAY BY STEPHEN KING
A UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE
The two masters of horror, George A. Romero and Stephen King, join toghther to what should be a horror fans dream. However, well not really acheiving a high level of greatness, this film is still just enough fun to past the time. The film is done as a comic book (the comic called 'Creepshow') and takes five of the animated stories and turns them into real life. The first one, 'Fathers Day' is not very good. It involves some dead guy rising from his grave, searching for a cake which he never got. (Instead, he got the rather pleasent gift of a marble ash tray smashing into his tray) Of course, the person who smashed the ash tray into his head meets a sticky end. The second story stars Stephen King, as an unlucky bumpkin who discovers a meteror that turns everything into vegetation (including King) Now, although King can write (so some people say) he most defefently CAN'T act (and direct, as shown with MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE) And anyway, this segment just isn't very good. So, you're just about to switch it off, when you come to the Leslie Nielson/Ted Danson segment. Nielson plays a jealous man who buries his ex-wife and her new boyfriend (Danson) into the sand to drown. So he sitting in his house, looking rather smug, and should raise from the dead, looking rather wet (and some great makeup from Tom Savini)? Yes, thats right, Danson and his girlfriend. And of course, they chuck Nielson into the sand to drown. I found this segment bizzarely watchable, as Romero keeps the tension up when Danson and friend enter the house. (Nielson has lots of cameras in his house, and we keep seeing glimpes of the ghosts on the screens, until they finally pop out.) However, the last two segments are the best. The fourth segment, 'The Crate' is great. Under the stairs of a college is a big crate, with a monster living it. A college professor has an annoying wife, and guess what he does to her...I found this segment great, and it also has the best comedy. Then theres the last segment. I can't say much about this one, as it would give it all away, but it involves A LOT of cockroaches. And theres a really sick sequence at the end.......
So, basically with Creepshow, the first two segments are pretty awful, but it picks up from segment three. The actings fine, and so is the direction. Overall, a good horror movie to watch late at night.
RATING: *** out of ******
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