Creepshow ( film)
Stephen King's Creepshow is a classic 1982
anthology horror movie directed by George A. Romero (of Night of the Living Dead
and Dawn of the Dead fame), and written by Stephen King (The Shining, Misery,
The Stand).
It was considered a sleeper hit at the box office when released in November 1982, earning over $21 million domestically, and remains a popular film among horror fans. The film was shot on location in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. It consists of five short "Jolting Tales of Horror": "Father's Day", "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", "Something to Tide You Over", "The Crate" and "They're Creeping Up on You!". Two of these stories, "The Crate" and "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" (originally titled "Weeds"), were adapted from previously published Stephen King short horror tales. The segments are tied together by brief animated sequences. The film is bookended by scenes featuring a young boy named Billy (played by Stephen King's own son, Joe King) who is punished by his father for reading horror comics. The film is a homage to the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s such as Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear.
Cast
Hal Holbrook - Professor Henry Northrup (segment "The
Crate")
Adrienne Barbeau - Wilma "Billie" Northrup (segment
"The Crate")
Fritz Weaver - Professor Dexter Stanley (segment "The
Crate")
Leslie Nielsen - Richard Vickers ("Something To Tide
You Over")
Carrie Nye - Sylvia Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
E.G. Marshall - Upson Pratt (segment "They're Creeping Up On You")
Viveca Lindfors - Bedelia Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
Ed Harris - Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Ted Danson - Harry Wentworth (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
Stephen
King - Jordy Verrill (segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill")
Warner Shook - Richard Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
Robert Harper - Charlie Gereson (segment "The Crate")
Elizabeth
Regan - Cass Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Gaylen Ross - Becky
Vickers (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
Jon Lormer - Ghost
of Jordy's Father (segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verill")
Creepshow-spawned
Television Series
The moderate success of "Creepshow" sparked interest
in a television series in the same mold. After a few changes, Laurel Productions
renamed the television version Tales from the Darkside (which later spawned a
film adaptation very similar to Creepshow, entitled "Tales from the Darkside:
The Movie" (1990) directed by John Harrison, Creepshow's composer. Tom Savini
has said that the film is the real "Creepshow 3". This series lasted
four years (1983–87) before being replaced by a virtually identical series
named Monsters, which lasted another three years (1988–91).
Plot
Father's
Day (First story, written by King expressly for the film): Years ago, Nathan Grantham
was killed on Father's Day when his daughter Bedelia bashed him in the head with
a marble ashtray as he screamed for his cake. Years later, as his relatives get
together for their annual dinner on Father's Day, Nathan returns from the grave
for revenge.
The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill (Second story, originally titled "Weeds", adapted from a previously published short story): A dimwitted backwoods hick thinks a newly-discovered meteorite will provide enough money to pay off the remaining $200 of his bank loan. Instead, he finds himself overcome by a rapidly spreading plant-like organism that arrives in the meteorite. Stephen King himself plays the doomed protagonist in this darkly humorous story.
Something to Tide You Over (Third story, written by King expressly for the film): A coldblooded Leslie Nielsen stages a terrible fate for his unfaithful wife, Becky (Gaylen Ross) and her lover, Harry Wentworth (Ted Danson), by burying them up to their necks on the beach, below the high tide line. But the tide sometimes has a way of bringing things back-
The Crate (Fourth story, adapted from a previously published short story): A mysterious, extremely lethal creature is unwittingly freed from its crate in this supenseful and gory monster story. Hal Holbrook stars as college professor Henry Northrup, who sees the creature as a way to rid himself of his emotionally abusive wife, Wilma, played by Adrienne Barbeau. The monster in the crate was nicknamed "Fluffy" by the film's director, George A. Romero.
They're Creeping Up On You! (Fifth and final story, written by King expressly for the film): A cruel, miserly and ruthless businessman, Upson Pratt (played by screen legend E.G. Marshall), is disgusted by germs and insects, but finds himself helpless to stop them when Mr. White, his put-upon employee, allows his apartment to be overrun by endless hordes of cockroaches.
The film ends with the boy's father experiencing neck pains, transmitted by a voodoo doll ordered from the comic by the young boy, Billy, whom we see being chastised by his father at the beginning of the film.
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