Runtime: 92 minutes
Directed by: Michael Gornick
Starring: George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Holt McCallany, Lois Chiles, Daniel Beer
From: New World Pictures
It has no segments like The Crate-nor any Ed Harris dancing to disco songs-but…
Many will likely disagree but I’ve always liked more than loved the original Creepshow. Sure, it has some highs but also some lows—segments easily skippable for me. I’m looking at you, Stephen King as a Maine redneck… that is a reason why I never saw its first sequel (yes, first; more on that at the end) until last night on Shudder. Turns out, I also like this; all three segments I like to a similar degree and while the interstitial moments were eh, overall there are no regrets in checking this out.
The description on Shudder probably reveals too much for those that hadn’t seen this before-the one on this site probably does also. Instead, I’ll briefly mention that the segments feature:
* In a ghost town, outside a general store is one of those wooden cigar store Indians; there’s something from the past that thankfully you don’t see anymore, for a variety of reasons. The store is run by George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour in her final film role. Bad things happen when Holt McCallany (as a Native American with long luxurious locks he obsesses over! What an amazing sight that was; that entire role, I mean, although the hair WAS marvelous) and friends show up.
* On a raft-in this case, a wooden platform in the middle of a lake-four wild college kids swim to. What bad luck then that this like also has a giant oil slick which is sentiment and acts like The Blob.
* Lois Chiles is having an affair; on the drive home, she in her Mercedes hits an runs a hitchhiker. That poor Mercedes is in much worse shape once the segment concludes.
This once again has the involvement of George A. Romero and Stephen King, even if the former did not direct this time. The trio of stories were all interesting in different ways, the cast was fine overall (Chiles was the highlight with her character and performance) & the soundtrack included contributions from Rick Wakeman… it sounded exactly like you’d expect from a prog rock keyboardist. A fun time, this was.
Do people know that someone bought the license to the Creepshow name and made a third one in 2006, featuring no contributions from Romero or King? ‘tis true, and ever since ’06 I’ve only heard the worst things about it. As Tom Savini (who was also involved with the original and this) said, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie was more a Creepshow 3 than anything else… among other things, this was going to have five segments but alleged budget issues meant those weren’t filmed. One of those-The Cat from Hell-ended up in Darkside.
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