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Creepshow
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| Release Date: |
31 October, 1982 |
| Director: |
George A. Romero |
Staring: |
Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, E.G. Marshall, Ted Danson |
| Studio: |
Warner Studios |
| Rated: |
R (Restricted) |
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Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 5 out of 5!
"The most fun you’’ll ever have being scared!"
I doubt a truer ad line was ever concocted. Back when it was made, Creepshow was a serious happening. The world’’s bestselling horror writer and the respected and fiercely independent director of two icons of horror cinema [Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead] had joined forces to make a horror movie. Needless to say, more than a few stars were willing to take a trip out to The Burg for the honor of getting rubbed out by zombies, crate monsters, weeds, or cockroaches. King’’s script (his best in my opinion) is simplistic as a comic should be and Romero’’s direction is highly stylized (great care was taken to give the sets a simplistic look, as if they could be drawn instead of photographed), thus making Creepshow one of that last truly great anthology horror movies. No fan of King, Romero, or horror movies should be without a copy. Highly recommended. Rated 1 out of 5
GEORGE ROMERO & STEPHEN KING- Horror Master’’s gone wrong!!!
When I was a kid growing up in the 70’’s and 80’’s, there were many movies that I wanted to see because they looked so scary when their commercials aired on T.V. Also, the fact that they were RATED R also fueled my fears. Now that I’’m older (and wiser) I have viewed ALL OF these movies that instilled fear in my once innocent soul and I can’’t figure out what the heck was I so scared of? ? ? CREEPSHOW has to be the UNSCARIEST movie ever made. Not only does it lack thrills, chills and logic, it’’s pathetically over the top, load, and cheesy. I don’’t know if the CHEESE factor was done purposely or by accident but the result is an over-acted mess of a horror film. That said, it still entertains. Why? Because it’’s absolutely hilarious and some of the performances are quite good- especially Adrienne Barbeau who plays a rather unpleasant but likable shrew.The Special effects are also quite attrocious. I understand the film was made over 20 years ago but that doesn’’t excuse the poorly constructed make-up effects. Considering this was a star studded Hollywood production more care should have been taken, unless they purposely designed these ghouls and monsters to look fake and if that was the case, then mission accomplished. I think I would have liked the movie better had they not had the ATTROCIOUS second story. Steven King is not much of an actor. As a matter of fact, he is rather irritating and since he was the sole protagonist of that lacklustre tale, it made it all the more unbearable. The idea is rather interesting for a horror movie and I am a big fan of horror anthologies but everything in this movie was very poorly done. It’’s even more grating when the talent involved is taken into consideration. Romero and King have done WAY better than this. The film’’s AMBITIOUS but CHILDISH and the end result is as scary as an episode of DENNIS THE MENACE.  Rated 4 out of 5
Movie is great, DVD is bad
Just watched Creepshow on DVD the other night. This is one of my favorite horror movies. The stories are great...both funny and scary, with a wonderful cast of familiar faces who all seem to be having a good time with the material.Although this is one of the DVD’’s you can pick up very cheap, the picture quality is terrible. I found the first story to be crystal clear, then suddenly the rest of the movie looked like a VHS quality print. Blurry and dark overall. It’’s a shame really, because this is an awesome horror movie. Creepshow definitely deserves a remastered print at the very least. Deleted scenes and some commentary by Romero and/or King would be nice too (Come on, what else is George working on at the moment and Steve is technically retired!). Bottom line is, who knows when or if we m
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