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reepshow is an anthology of five tales, with a fun wrap around story starring Tom Atkins (The Fog & Night of the Creeps fame), all linked by the opening pages of a comic book, harking back to the EC comic books of the 1950's.
When I first saw it I was especting a “serious” horror film and was taken aback at it’s black humor. On a subsequent viewing I really warmed up to it and now it’s one of my favorite fun horror flicks! The lighting captures the feel of old pulp horror and the performances are really pretty good... Well, all except for maybe Stephen King's “Jordy”!
The first story, entitled "Father's Day,” is really good. It seems a woman killed her father seven years before for his crime of killing the old spinster’s only lover (the lover himself an older man). The outraged and emotionally battered woman finally snaps while making her father a Father’s Day cake, and in a fit of rage she whacks her pappy over the noggin with a large marble ashtray. Daddy was rich, so the rest of the dysfunctional family cover for the crime and revel in the $$$ afforded them by dear daddy’s demise.
So, an annual ritual of the Father’s Day “accident” has been created whereby the women visits the grave (in this most recent case intoxicated) and then the surviving family members sit down to nice baked ham dinner. Only this Father’s Day will bring an additional guest to the festivities! Dear ole dad comes back for his never-served Father’s Day cake and croaks nearly everyone in the process!
"The Lonely Death of Jordy Verril" features King himself as a goofy farm boy who finds a meteor in his backyard. Being an idiot, Jordy touches the meteor and you can guess the rest- something terrible happens, but nothing as terrible as this story. In the Italian version of the film this story war deleted. I wish it had been for the US release. Anyway, Jordy finds that large, glowing rock from space contained a weird glowing fluid and causes a strange moss to start growing. It eventually takes over Jordy and his farm, and so on…
"Something To Tide You Over" really is a creepy tale about adultery, greed and OCD. Leslie Nielson plays a rich selfish jerk (named “Richards”) that exacts his revenge upon Ted Danson because Ted is playing naughty with Richards’s wife.
Richards buried both his wife and Danson’s character in beach sand so the tide will drown them. It does, but they come back from the sea to return the favor and dear ole Richards is reluctant to join the party. This part of the film has some genuine shocks and laugh-out-loud comedy.
One story of Hollywood legend (or myth possibly) is about the shooting of a beach scene in this tale. There had been a lot of takes and when it was finally right an overhead airplane busted the shot and Mr. Nielsen went running down the beach firing the blank pistol at the plane!
"The Crate" has a really good creature that eats people. In a small college a janitor found an old crate underneath a dusty staircase. The wood box contains an evil monster of unknown origin (the crate is stamped with “Arctic Expedition”) and the beastie has been living there for decades. Hal Holbrook is browbeaten by a truly obnoxious wife (performed to perfection by Adrienne Barbeau) and he decides to let it loose on her. Of note in this story is Fritz Weaver’s incredible freak-out performance.
The final chapter, "They're Creeping Up On You!" has E.G. Marshall with a phobia for roaches. Marshall plays a rich, old codger who lives in a sterile, all white high-tech apartment. He fastidious about cleaning and also about cruelty.
Pay-back by the roaches is both hard to sit through and hilarious at the same time...
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Great black comedy with some solid shocks.
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King and Romero made this movie with the idea of making enough money to eventually produce "The Stand" together. 
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In every episode there is a little glass horse hidden. -Thanks to Eric
Adrienne Barbeau, who played the loud-mouth wife of Hal Holbrook in the fourth episode "The Crate", was married to John Carpenter 1979-1984 and can be seen in his films "The Fog" (1980 -- Also with Holbrook, "Escape from New York" (1981) and in his tv-thriller "Someones watching me" (1979, aka "Highrise") -Thanks to Peter Baldinger
The second vignette, "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", was based on a Stephen King short story entitled, "Weeds". As you'll also probably know, this segment even starred King in the central role of Jordy. -Thanks to intothesea13
Creepshow marks the last time that Leslie Nielson was able to play a big screen heavy. Of course, following Creepshow, he went on to become the physical embodiment of 80's slapstick in the Airplane sequel and Naked Gun movies.
The man in the "Meteor" story is played by Stephen King. -Thanks to David Jones
The boy in the story wrapper, who is an avid collector of "Creepshow" comics is Stephen King's son, Joe King.
Tom Savini, the makeup effects artist on this and tons of other horror films is one of the garbage men during one of the scenes between stories. -Thanks to Bill Kalish
Gaylen Ross, who played Leslie Nielsen's wife that was having an affair with Ted Dansen in "something to tide you over"...She was also one of the stars of the Romero classic "Dawn of the Dead". -Thanks to Shawn
George Romero's wife, Christine Forrest, has a cameo in "The Crate". She's at a party and says that her name is Tabitha, which is the name of Stephen King's wife. -Thanks to Bobby
The ashtray from the first story appears on the set of all 5 stories.
Check in the scene where the kid gives his voodoo doll pin jabs... You can see the "Ash tray" on the table there too. -Thanks to Daniel Swiss
The wrestling match on TV was being called by Vince McMahon. The fighters were then-current WWF Champion Bob Backlund and The Samoan #1.
George Romero has made commercials for US Steel, Rockwell, Heinz and Calgon.
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For the fifth episode "They're creeping up on you" the filmmakers used 25,000 living cockroaches, some of them came from Trinidad. After the filming they were all killed with gas. -Thanks to Peter Baldinger
Stephen King carried a toy figure of Greedo from Star Wars on the set for good luck.
Tom Savini, the FX guy, nicknamed The Crate creature "Fluffy" -Thanks to Ruth
Rice Krispies were used as as maggots on the corpse's eyes in the first story, "Father's Day".
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Soundtracks score was by Michelle Dibucci and John Harrison. John very much stayed in the genre in later years not only composing but also directing epsiodes from the TV series "Tales from the Darkside" and then following up with the movie of the same. More recently he directed "Dune" the mini TV Series in 2000.
The soundtrack was recently re-released on the La-La Land Records label. [Thanks to Paul Trigwell] Track listing:
1. Prologue - Welcome To Creepshow
2. Father's Day
3. The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill
4. Something To Tide You Over
5. The Crate
6. They're Creeping Up On You
7. Epilogue
8. Until The Next Time (End Title)
9. Satanic Piano
10. Everybody Needs A Little Love
11. Sorry Right Number
12. Overture From 'Mansions Of The Moon'
13. Main Title Song
14. You Make Me Feel Like A Monster
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