![]() ![]() Something really cool that Romero does here (and in a few other spots later on) is his use of blue and red lighting. ![]() ![]() Increasingly elaborate kill scenes? Check. “Father’s Day,” which involves the re-animated skeleton of a shady millionaire going after his equally scummy heirs while gravely demanding “…MY FATHER’S DAY CAKE, BEDELIA!” is beat for beat the kind of story you’d find in an old issue of Tales From The Crypt. Made up of five different vignettes, Creepshow starts out pretty strong. Creepshow is by no means a great film, and, honestly, that’s the charm of it. The movie’s sloppy affection for the pre-code era spook comics published by William Gaines is pretty unrelenting, from the opening in which a father (perennial moustache dad Tom Atkins) screams at his kid (King’s son/ NOS4A2 writer Joe Hill) after catching him with a Creepshow comic to the movie’s use of pseudo-comic panels at certain moments. Baby, can you dig your man?Ĭreepshow is Stephen King and director George Romero’s love letter to EC Comics, sort of a proto- Grindhouse in that it’s two big-name talents just having fun slumming it. With Halloween hot on our heels, we thought it appropriate to take a look at legendary horror author Stephen King’s best, worst, and strangest translations from page to screen. ![]()
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