Best creepshow-like Anthologies

ghouck · January 17, 2009, 01:22:50 PM

I recently watched Twilight Zone the Movie, and then realized the one I really wanted was Creepshow. Not saying Twilight Zone was bad, actually I liked it, but I was thinking about the meteor story and the cockroach stories from Creepshow when I got it. I'll get Creepshow next, , but my question is: What other anthologies are out there like those movies? Netflix and IMDB deems to get me pretty much everything I'm NOT looking for. .

Raffine · January 17, 2009, 01:42:00 PM

TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE (1990) is fairly similar to CREEPSHOW. There's a wraparound story featuring Deborah Harry as a witch who imprisons a paperboy with the intent of roasting him. He tells her three stories to postpone becoming her dinner.

LOT 249 is based on a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as adapted by by the late, great horror writer Michael McDowell. It's about a college student who reanimates a mummy to get revenge on some fellow students. It features Steve Buscemi, Christian Slater, and Julianne Moore.

CATS FROM HELL has quite a bit in common, at least creatively, with CREEPSHOW. It's based on a story by Stephen King that was adapted by George Romero. It stars William Hickey as a millionaire who hires a hitman to kill a cat.

LOVER'S VOW, also adapted by McDowell, is (very) loosely based on The Woman in the Snow. Rae Dawn Chong is in it as a sexy gargoyle.

This got mostly negative reviews when it released but I liked it . . .

Andrew · January 17, 2009, 01:48:35 PM

From Beyond the Grave
Trilogy of Terror
Asylum (1972)
Tales from the Crypt
The Willies
The Monster Club
Cat's Eye
The Offspring

I think you would also like the original and newer versions of the Outer Limits series.

WilliamWeird1313 · January 17, 2009, 02:35:44 PM

Necronomicon
Torture Garden
Tales From The Hood
Body Bags
Nightmares
From A Whisper To A Scream
Tales That Witness Madness

ghouck · January 17, 2009, 03:00:50 PM

Cool. looks like I have some work ahead of me. Thanks everyone. .

RCMerchant · January 17, 2009, 03:15:00 PM

Theres also the obscure the DEVILS MESSENGER with Lon Chaney,which is actually a compilation of a Swedeish TV series called 13 Demon ST.And a David Hewitt monstrosity ...Gallery of Horrors with Lon and John Carridine...a dam gawd awful movie...even for a bad movie lover!

gawd help me...I own this film on vhs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWf7rqBeayU

theres also the classic DEAD of NIGHT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvOdwgaz2No

Rev. Powell · January 17, 2009, 05:05:36 PM

You might want to consider Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, too.

Allhallowsday · January 17, 2009, 05:21:30 PM

Surprised nobody mentioned DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF7cY7WSzjw&feature=related

Dave M · January 17, 2009, 08:09:37 PM

IMO, The Illustrated Man works best of all of these movies, although it's a little more SF than horror. Nathan Shumate dosn't like it, but I think maybe he's just a Bradbury purist or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNYE7jcAFM

An odd thing about it is that the first time you see it, you'll swear you've seen it before, because the stories in it have all been anthologized in text books, Ray Bradbury Theater, etc.

AnubisVonMojo · January 17, 2009, 08:53:37 PM

I thought that every anthology movie I could imagine had already been mentioned, but there's also Night Train to Terror and Grim Prairie Tales. If you're into Japanese horror too, there's a lot of Japanese horror anthologies like the Three...Extremes movies, J-Horror: Legends, and J-Horror: Underground just to name a couple.

Doc Daneeka · January 17, 2009, 09:21:19 PM

Yeah, if you liked the original Creepshow, I second the recommendation of Tales from the Hood, it is a much better "Creepshow 2" than Creepshow 2 was, IMO.

For another CS like anthology, take a look at Fright Show AKA Cinemagic, it has some nice similarities though it sways much more to the humorous side.

Raffine · January 17, 2009, 09:56:48 PM

If you really want to go old school for horror anthologies try Fritz Lang's DESTINY (1921) and Paul Leni's WAXWORKS (1924).

Quotethere's a lot of Japanese horror anthologies like the Three...Extremes movies, J-Horror: Legends, and J-Horror: Underground just to name a couple.

Good call! I'd add KWAIDAN to that list.

lester1/2jr · January 18, 2009, 11:37:29 AM

I'd definately second andrews recommendation of trilogy of terror. karen black vs the dolls one really sticks out in my mind 20 years after seeing it

WilliamWeird1313 · January 18, 2009, 11:42:24 AM

AnubisVonMojo mentioned Grim Prairie Tales. Let me second that suggestion soley on the strength of the fact that you simply NEED to see the carniverous vagina scene before you die.

BTM · January 18, 2009, 02:24:50 PM

There's also the British movie Vault of Horror.

Plus, Tales from the Crypt has different versions of it, I believe. There's the newer version with Cryptkeeper doing the wraparounds, and then there's the older version.

Dunno if either are on DVD off-hand, but still..

Best creepshow-like Anthologies

Dave M