Just so...so bad

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Creepshow based on the 1950s, Tales of the Crypt comic books series is a collaboration between director George Romero and writer Stephen King. Book ended with a young boy being scolded by his dad for reading scary comic books it is an anthology of five stories.All the stories are unfurled in a comic book style. 'Father's Day' is a short story with a few jolts about a cantankerous old man terrorizing his family and wanting his Father's Day cake even if it means coming back from the grave. The creepiest part is to see Ed Harris disco dancing.Stephen King hams it up in 'The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill' as a yokel who finds a meteorite that slowly turns him into a green moss like infestation on his body. This is the weakest story.In 'Something to Tide You Over' Leslie Nielsen takes revenge on her cheating wife and her beau by burying them up to their neck in sand and waiting for the tide to come in. However soon after something more than the tide comes in to haunt Nielsen.'The Crate' sees academic Hal Holbrook imagining all sorts of horrors befalling on his nagging wife. His colleague at the university opens a crate that unleashes a demon giving Holbrook an idea.'They're Creeping Up on You' sees E G Marshall playing a nasty Howard Hughes type tycoon with a phobia about germs living in a clinical, air sealed apartment that suddenly gets infested with cockroaches and he hates bugs.The first two stories are short but they get increasingly longer and thus lose their effectiveness. All the stories have some type of scares but at heart they seem to be morality tales on human phobias but the film is a mixed bag.

Our Ratings:Wes-5 Cobra-6 John-5 "Every anthology will have some that are hit and miss. This is pretty consistent. It's a fun watch, filmed competently." - John"A nice group of stories.The image of the crate stuck with me when I was a child and it's still effective every re-watch." - Wes"Overall, all five stories are pretty good. Not great, but pretty good." - Cobra

Billy is punished for reading comic horror Creepshow. The Creep invites him to five tales. In Father's Day, the old patriarch Nathan Grantham was killed by his daughter Bedelia. During a family gathering, Nathan is resurrected and takes revenge while getting the cake. In 'The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill', Jordy Verrill (Stephen King) is a dimwit farmer who finds a meteorite and is soon overcome with extraterrestrial plant life. In 'Something to Tide You Over', wealthy Richard Vickers (Leslie Nielsen) takes revenge on his wife and her lover Harry Wentworth (Ted Danson) by burying them up to their necks in the beach. In 'The Crate', college professor Henry Northup (Hal Holbrook) is informed of a deadly creature inside of a crate and he sees an easy way to get rid of his hateful wife Wilma (Adrienne Barbeau). In 'They're Creeping Up on You', ruthless business Upson Pratt (E. G. Marshall) has sealed himself up in his high tech apartment due to his germophobia. There is a blackout and his apartment is overrun by cockroaches.The first two tales are forgettable. The third one burying alive Ted Danson is not. It is the most compelling tale in the whole movie. It works on every level from the acting to the writing. The fourth one has a couple of interesting actors and the last one is creepy as hell. I'm not that afraid of bugs but people who do would really get unhinged over that one. The wrap-around story with Billy could probably be better. I'm sure they could have found a better actor than Stephen King's son. Teaming up horror icons like George A. Romero and Stephen King doesn't guarantee anything but this one worked out great.

'The Creepshow' is a 50's retro-styled horror comic book come to life. Think "Tales From the Crypt", and you've got the idea. It's a very well packaged, fun collection of stories with a great cast.The movie opens with a scene of a little boy being punished for reading a Creepshow comic book, which probably wasn't all that uncommon back in the '50s. As the kid pouts up in his room, a ghastly figure appears at the window beckoning the child to join him, and thus becoming our host for the evening's entertainment.The naysayers will say it comes across as campy and corny, or that it's not scary, etc....Look, Stephen King and George Romero wanted it to be silly and corny, that's what comic book's were/are. In this regard, they nailed it. In classic comic book fashion, a lot of scenes are framed in retro comic book style graphics, with even the occasional caption thrown in for good measure, as they cut away from a scene. And the acting is superb throughout, as professionals like Ed Harris, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, E.G. Marshall, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver and even Steven King all make appearances. I always laugh when I see the young Ed Harris in the first story, already sporting a receding hair line as a young man.While I agree that this movie isn't really that scary, I found the fourth story, 'The Crate', to have it's fair share of suspense and is easily the scariest story of the bunch. The third story, 'Something to Tide You Over', which features Nielsen and Danson, I found to be particularly creepy as Nielsen lures two lovers, one which happens to be his wife, to a secluded beach which he ironically calls 'Comfort Point' and buries them up to their necks in the sand. Waiting for the tide to come in. And that's not even the worst part. He sets up cameras and monitors in front of each lover so they can watch each other drown. Of course, he's also able to watch the action from the 'comfort' of his beach house, where he doesn't lack for enthusiasm.One last thing. For short stories, there is genuinely really good character development which lends itself to some pretty funny scenes and lines, albeit some can be somewhat subtle. Watching Ed Harris dance always makes me laugh. And Leslie Nielsen is, well, Leslie Nielsen, and really portrays his demented character to perfection. And some of the scenes when Hal Holbrook fantasizes about killing his wife, Adrienne Barbeau, are just flat out hilarious. As is she as she constantly belittles him in front of everybody.I've given this movie an 8 because it's entertaining and fun. It's not the scariest movie. It was never meant to be. Yes, it's kinda of campy and corny. Which is exactly what it's supposed to be. If you can just enjoy 'The Creepshow' for what it is and not what it isn't, most likely you'll like it.