{"id":69646,"date":"2021-02-19T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=69646"},"modified":"2023-09-09T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T23:13:45","slug":"creepshow-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=69646","title":{"rendered":"Creepshow (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s showtime!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Poster-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-69647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Poster-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Poster-82x128.png 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Poster-173x270.png 173w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Poster.png 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA young boy (Joe King) whose unreasonable father (Tom Atkins) throws away his Creepshow comic book finds a creative way to get back at him &#8212; but first we see a series of horror vignettes about an abusive patriarch (Jon Lormer) returning from the dead on Father&#8217;s Day to seek retribution on his murderous daughter (Viveca Lindfors) and other family members; a backwoods yokel (Stephen King) hoping to earn money from a fallen meteor, which instead turns him into a plant-like organism; a millionaire (Leslie Nielson) wreaking gruesome revenge on his wife (Gaylen Ross) and her lover (Ted Danson) before being turned on himself; a henpecked professor (Hal Holbrook) who discovers an unusual way to take care of his shrewish wife (Adrienne Barbeau); and a ruthless business mogul (E.G. Marshall) whose pathological fear of insects literally consumes him.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>E.G. Marshall Films<\/li>\n<li>Episodic Films<\/li>\n<li>George Romero Films<\/li>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Revenge<\/li>\n<li>Stephen King Adaptations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that &#8220;George Romero and Stephen King collaborated in this homage to&#8230; sexy and nightmarish pre-Code horror comics of the early fifties&#8221; (such as those produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EC_Comics\">EC Comics<\/a>). He argues that the film is &#8220;overlong&#8221; &#8212; with none of the five &#8220;King-written episodes&#8221; &#8220;exceptional&#8221; and none &#8220;dreadful&#8221; &#8212; but all &#8220;laced with devilish tongue-in-cheek humor, and four of the five deal[ing] with cruel people getting their horrific just deserts.&#8221; He adds that the &#8220;production design by Cletus Anderson and the comic-book-like illustrations that bridge the episodes by former comic-book artist Jack Kamen give the film its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tales_from_the_Crypt_(comics)\"><em>Tales From the Crypt<\/em><\/a> flavor.&#8221; I&#8217;m essentially in agreement with Peary&#8217;s assessment; while I&#8217;m sure fans of these comics will revel in this homage, I simply found it diverting and nicely produced. My favorite episode is &#8220;Something to Tide You Over&#8221;, which shows the extreme lengths to which a cuckolded (and psychotic) husband will go.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some truly creepy moments<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Tide.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Creative production design and cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creepshow-Still.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though Stephen King fans will of course want to check it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083767\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/classic-horror.com\/reviews\/creepshow_1982.html\">Classic Horror Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2692\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/creepshow-1982.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/creepshow-1982\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s showtime!&#8221; Synopsis: A young boy (Joe King) whose unreasonable father (Tom Atkins) throws away his Creepshow comic book finds a creative way to get back at him &#8212; but first we see a series of horror vignettes about an abusive patriarch (Jon Lormer) returning from the dead on Father&#8217;s Day to seek retribution on his murderous daughter (Viveca Lindfors) and other family members; a backwoods yokel (Stephen King) hoping to earn money from a fallen meteor, which instead turns&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=69646\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91373,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69646\/revisions\/91373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}