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I hated the one called "They're Creeping Up On You" with E.G.Marshall and the roaches with the scene about the ceral and the other parts. My sister made me watch the movie when it was on HBO in the early 80's and that last one made not to eat ceral like Rasin Bran for about four years.

Great flick, personal favorite.  I'd give it five slimes though.

This movie has a very psychedelic style to it, especially "Father's Day". "The Lonely Death of Jordy Verill" is hilarious, "The Crate" is satisfying, "Something To Tide You Over" is alright, save a certain Cheers actor, and "They're Creeping Up On You" is a classic. See it.

The movie was very good and the "Fathers day" tale made
me afraid to visit graves,But the was cool.

What gives the film such an appeal, is the comic book outline. Of course, the top story, is the one with E.G.Marshall being plagued by thousands of roaches. Also, the Father's Day tale is creepy, and somewhat reminiscent of the Grimsdyke story from Tales from the Crypt(1971). Of course I am refering to the two main characters of both stories.

HAH.  I'd forgotten about the "WHERE'S MY CAKE!?" line.  That's one of the funniest moments in the histery of film.

I've always been a fan of "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verill."  Funny for the most part, but becomes very disturbing near the end...to me, anyway.  What a way to go....

This is one of my favorites! Although my favorite line is "Just tell him to call you Billie!" from The Crate. I think that's my favorite story, too, although I love them all! This movie is wonderfully cheesy-and I mean that with utmost respect. Also, this is the best acting I've ever seen Leslie Nielsen do... He's very convincing in his role. I must have seen this movie 100 times. Classic!

I've watched it since I was 6 years old.Always thought it was good.Never scared of it.I'm twice that age.The crate was
 my all time favourite(that and some of the Lonsome Death of Jordy,but that was when I was very young.).My parents always said the zombie from F. Day was M. Jackson(well I know what they meant now!).Again,the Crate was Brilliant(I'd
 love a Crate 2.) but the creature could be the yeti.Not as cuddly as some people would think.2ndly, this site's review was good as well("The what I learnt" didnt say anything about the reasonably poor "Something to tide you over".)
I'd give the film 85%.

I am Creepshow's number one fan. I have seen this movie probably around 70 times. (Seriously). It is the best horror films ever made and the greatest anthology of all time. If you haven't yet seen Creepshow, you don't realise just what the f**k you're missing out on! See this now!!
Also, I have my own amazingly impressive Creepshow website you can go check it out @ www.the-creepshow.com!

My favorite tale in Creepshow would have to be, Something To Tide You Over. An absolute classic.

See this now!!

This is my 3rd favourite film of all time.

I first saw this in the cinema back in '82/83 when this baby got released. I remember being extremely tense through Father's Day at the time and now I've fallen in love with near about everything in the film from the scary King kid at the beginning, the fantastic (should of gotten an award) hand drawn titles at the beginning, the cool music and cheesy sound effects (my personal favourite being the synth at the end of the 'Tide' section), to pausing the video to read everything in the comic when you see it!

The lighting comic book effect is great. Although being really dissapointed with Creepshow II, I would love to see a Stephen King influenced Creepshow III.

You'll never have so much fun being scared? Sums it up.

This is a 5 slimer!  I think the reviewer just made a mistake.

My family LOVES this film.  It's a yearly halloween tradition...saw the DVD in WalMarts cheapo hopper.  Good quality.

Favorite story is the one with the monster in the box.  Scared the crap out of me when I originally saw it.  Mom likes the Father's Day bit.  I spill my popcorn everytime pappy pops out of the grave.  But if you ask mom her favorite line it would be;  TELL IT TO CALL YOU BILLIE....  Funniest bit is when junior screams:  OH MY GOD!! in Father's Day.  Stephen King is hilariously cheezy.  

Well, what can I say? I absolutely adore this movie! I saw it way back in the early 90's, when my sister's friend brought it over and we all watched it. Last month I got it on DVD, and it's a crying shame there's no special features worth mentioning. A commentary by Stephen King and George Romero would've rocked! Anyway, the movie as a whole is great, a work of art as far as I'm concerned, a brilliant concept thrown together by two of the best names in the horror/sci-fi business. But what about the individual stories? Hmm, let's see:

Father's Day
"Wheeere's my caaake? I waaant it! It's miiine!" One of my three favorites, because I just love the concept. of all the reasons to come back from the dead, old Nathan Grantham comes back . . . for cake! However, of my three favorites, it's the one I like the least. It starts off good, with a lot of nice buildup, but then it ends too abruptly. In particular, I've always thought the scene of Hank exploring the graveyard was far too long and drawn out, and came to a wimpy conclusion . . . I mean, we don't even get to see his head get squished! What a ripoff!

The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verril
"I'm growin'!" Meh, this one is okay simply because of Stephen King's performance as Jordy. If it hadn't been him, I'd really hate this one. it's got some funny bits, but it's too slow and comes to a very anti-climactic ending. And the makeup effects? Jordy looks less like a plant thing at the end than he does a Muppet of some kind.

Something to Tide You Over
"Heeere we cooome! It's shooow tiime!" Oh, yeah! Second of my three favorites. Very suspenseful and entertaining, and a good performance by Leslie Nielson in an unusually serious role . . . well, serious compared to some of his other movies. I just love the ending, too, with Richard's much deserved comeuppance.

The Crate
"He wanted to measure the bite marks, Henry!" Third of my favorites, and arguably the one I enjoyed the most. Scared the crap out of me when I first watched it way back when, but now I watch it all the time. Unusually gory compared to the previous stories (unless you count Sylvia getting her ehad twisted off in 'Father's Day'), but that's to be expected when there's a man-eating ambominable snowman running around. The scenes of Dexter sitting there, paralyzed with fear, watching the thing violently kill his friends is the stuff horror's all about. And do I need to say that the best part was when the thing got Wilma, er, I mean 'Billie?'

They're Creeping Up on You!
"Pratt! You old finkster! Oh, I hope you die! I hope you DIE! I HOPE YOU DIIIE!" In a word, gross. Upson Pratt is just about the meanest, most awful excuse for a human being to be found in this film. It was fun seeing him spiral into madness, before finally dying of a heart attack, as thousands of cockroaches invade his apartment. The only reason I don't really like this one is it's boring for the most part, like 'The Lonesome Daeth of Jordy Verril.' Still, the ending is classic. Seeing a swarm of roaches burst out of a dead man's chest is about the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

So, anyway, that's my thoughts on the differant segments. All combined, they make one darn good, fun movie. :)

Man, this is an AWESOME movie! I bought it for five bucks the other day, and watched the whole thing through for the first time. This is the epitome of a good horror movie: directed by George Romero, written by Stephen King, and with makeup by Tom Savini (the latter two make guest appearences in the movie!) It takes all of the comic-book style from 'Dawn of the Dead' and amps it up a trillion times. The zombies (particularly the water-ghost ones) are awesome, and the monkey-monster from 'The Crate' was even better! The whole movie was so stylishly done, with such macabre twists and murders and effects that I couldn't help but smile half the time. The music was perfect, the lighting was perfect (red and blue washouts whenever someone screams) and the stories SURPASSED some of the old EC comics I've read.

I first saw some of 'Creepshow' at my friend's house when I was eight or so, and it scared the hell out of me. I saw the opening 'Father's Day' one, and the zombie in that gave me nightmares, and I saw some of the 'Tide' chapter (which was even MORE scary) and a little of 'The Crate' (my favorite) which scared me for months to follow. Now, watching it for the third time in three days (hopelessly hooked) it's not so much scary as it is campy, totally over-the-top, with an incredible cast and excellent special effects.

My favorite is definitely 'The Crate', followed by the Stephen King one (the title is kind of a spoiler), and then the 'Tide' chapter with Leslie Neilson (who played an excellent madman). I loved 'The Crate' because it doesn't follow logic at all: the whole idea that a killer monkey from a mysterious 'Arctic Expedition' in 1834 is WAY cooler than if it had been, say, only ten years ago. It's much more genuine and faithful to the EC comics. The Stephen King one was just as good, albeit less gory, with really cool plant effects. I think he used that story as a basis for his novel 'Dreamcatcher'. That voodoo doll ending was cool too, although pretty disturbing.

I've been trying to get a copy of the full-sized comic adaptation of Creepshow (kinda ironic) but apparently it's out of print. Too bad.

Remembered something I had seen some time ago in the 80s.  A blooper real on TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes.  It was a whole bunch of em from Creepshow.  So...why didn't they include them?  I guess too much freaking trouble.  Me and a friend spent weeks doing one of them.  From TIDE:

"You can't kill us cause we're already Dead"
"We're aaaalready, dead"
"You can't kill us we're already dead"
"You already said that."
{laughter}

It's very funny because they're doing the voices and everything.  

  I don't think the second segment was based on the blob at all, based on an origianl  King story that may have been called 'weeds' but not sure.
  Always loved the third part.  Very much like an EC comic story by Ingles that I read once.
  Neilson, Marshall's comments, Nate and fluffy are the highlights for me.  

I think The Twilight Zone must have spoiled me, because I didn't like this. I kept wanting something extra at the end of each segment, a big irony or something. I was especially dissapointed by the end of the tide one, I wanted them to survive and/or get revenge in a really trick way, maybe involving somehow having made a fake videotape. That ending could have been tacked onto anything about people getting murdered. What was funny about the plant segment, the guy being a hayseed?

This is my all-time favorite horror flick! I can easily be impressed by horror flicks and b-movies, so I usually say that after I see one for the first time. But I GUARANTEE this remains in my TOP TEN list of horror flicks! I can't even believe this was considered a BAD movie! I just hope Stephen King also starts turning Creepshow into an entire comic book SERIES! If he does, I'm also hoping they'll be clean enough for pre-teen readers! Then I'd BEG my parents for a subscription!

This is my favorite horror movie.  I wanted the comic way back in '88 or something,I'm 27 now , so I was pretty young growing up watching all the horror,Jason, Freddy, April fools Day, Hellraiser, Phantasm.  Anyways I finally got the comic but was disappointed because it was different from the one in the movie and it was in real bad shape.  Anyways I found out that the one that was in the movie was an only copy.  About five years later I went back to the same comic book store and the owner said "Hey! Remember that Creepshow comic I got for you a long time ago?  Well, a friend of mine found an old box of them in mint condition and I bought 2 of them.  One of them is for you."  He gave it to me for the old cover price.  Just got it on DVD.  Break out the popcorn and a blanket and enjoy.

"Henry, you remind me of a regular barnyard exhibit.  Sheep's eyes, chicken guts, piggy friends,....and s**t for brains!"        'Billie'

Hum...this film doesn't belong.  Nothing bad about this at all.  I've loved this since it came out.  It's now a yearly October viewing.  Stephen King turning into a plant is one of my favorite things ever!

I kind of liked the end cartoon to the second movie CREEPSHOW II WHERE THE BULLIES CHASE THE KID INTO THE ALLEY AND THEIR DEVORED BY THE GIANT VENUS FLYTRAPS and the kid says VENUS FLYTRAPS THEY EAT MEAT

Well, over time "Bad movie" has come to refer to movies that aren't actually bad but just B or cheesy to some people.

I love this movie, and the second one. I have both on dvd. I only recently saw them though, maybe a year or too ago. My father told me about them, said it was a good movie. My favorites from the first were The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verill, The Crate, and They're Creeping Up On You. Although neither Creepshow  ever scared me, except for "The Raft" on the second one. That one scares me for some reason. Stupid floating trash bag monster!

Father's Day would have been a little better if they left in the scene that explains why Nathan is so hard to snuff out.

What a classic movie.

The Where's My Cake Reminds me of the video game of portal



 :buggedout:THE CAKE IS A LIE

Jordy Verrill being played by Stephen King, of course. Perhaps the most lines he ever had in a movie?

And what was the explanation? I have the comic book which contains a lot of the deleted material (such as the flashback of Bedelia identifying Peter Yarbro's corpse at the morgue after Nathan has him killed and Jordy's fantasy about paying off the bank loan), but the hows and whys of Nathan Grantham's resurrection and powers are not touched upon in Father's Day.

Trying to explain why he's difficult to kill seems a bit weird, considering that nobody lifts a hand against him. Bedelia, Hank and Sylvia all passively allow themselves to get killed (due to shock I assume). We don't see how Mrs. Danvers got killed but I assume Nathan caught her by surprise and she likewise made no real effort to defend herself. There's no sign of a struggle when Sylvia inspects the kitchen, just Nathan's muddy footprints and Mrs. Danvers' body propped up behind the door. Why did Nathan put her there, anyway? A lot of his actions don't make much sense, actually:

-Why did he remain in the cemetery for so long? He only starts heading for the mansion after killing Hank, long after night has fallen.
-Why did he bury Bedelia's body? Obviously he's not a typically mindless zombie, but still this seems a bit weird, unless his thinking was it was ironic that his daughter ought to be interred in his own grave.

I know it's just a movie, but Father's Day just has a lot of unanswered little questions. And this seems to stem from the fact it loses steam halfway through. It's good up until just before Hank gets killed. Once Hank snuffs it, we're left wondering why Nathan didn't go to the house immediately after killing Bedelia, and his subsequent "rampage" (if you can call it that) upon getting there leaves a lot to be desired. At least it ended on a high note (and if you're wondering about the fates of Cass and Richard, the comic implies that Nathan kills them soon afterward because the Creep says something along the lines of him "blowing out their candles").

...this is of course completely ignoring Nathan's apparent telekinetic zombie powers, a topic of discussion unto itself.

  I met Tom Savini who did the special effects for this movie and many other Romero films. and he says the Thing in the crates has a name.  It is Fluffy!
    signed
             Dave

White Lion fan by any chance?  :smile:

Great movie review by Cody! Stephen King actually based this story as well as his novel "The Tommyknockers" on the premise of an old H.P. Lovecraft short story called "The Colour Out of Space", which was about a meteorite that crashes into Earth outside of a small town, then is broken open and the strange 'colourful' substance inside slowly starts to suck the life force out of everyone and everything in the surrounding countryside.

You can read the H.P. Lovecraft story here: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx)