 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is the one this is one that people have kind of been waiting for because It's a film. I haven't seen before and it's considered to be a classic for big-time horror nerds This one's been on my list for a long time and I finally finally finally got to it I don't have any good excuses as to why it took so long But finally some people can stop pushing me on this one because I did it I did it and here's my review on this And I'm gonna let you know I broke it down so that I'm going to talk about each individual story And then give a rating for each of the stories and then at the end give an overall rating and talk a little bit about that too So breaking it down on this one Obviously from 1982 creep show directed by George a Romero now This was after he had done night riders and before he did day of the dead just to give you a reference for where He was in his film career at this point This was written by Stephen King now take note that Stephen King has not written a lot of Feature-length screenplays in his life So it's kind of rare that he did it for this one the other ones that he's done a few few of them We're actually TV shows that I put in there because it's significant amount of script writing Rose red that was on TV storm of the century was also a TV show then sleepwalkers and cat's eye Which cat's eye is also an anthology film, which I watched some years ago, and I remember enjoying enough I think creep shows obviously better, which I'm sure a lot of people would probably Agree with me on that although if you don't you can go ahead and put in the comments. Let me know why Now this was the only George a Romero film to open number one at the box office the week it came out That is sad because Romero was such a wonderful filmmaker who actually felt that a lot of people didn't really even care about his Material was actually just reading an article and we're more about that So it's really sad to hear that he felt like people didn't appreciate him as much as they probably should have And it was probably because of stuff like this the fact that creep show was the only thing that hit number one in the box office when he put it out so Sucks, but it's worth noting that for this now reportedly well I'm gonna give you some backstory on some other things about this You know it's kind of interesting things trivia wise that I found out about the film But there's so much out there about this so if you want to know more I would say you know go to IMDB and read their trivia stuff There there's also plenty of other places you can find information But I just pulled out a few choice bits of information that I thought were interesting Leslie Nielsen who did a wonderful job in this by the way in a pretty much straight role He usually does comedy stuff obviously or did He reportedly in between takes had a fart machine on On set that he would use to crack people up and there were many times where he would use it Right before they were about to start a scene so that it would kind of mess people up and they'd have to try and recompose themselves Before the filmic started it was just a funny story I bet that was a good time to be on set with him the cockroach is in this in the final story Apparently cost 50 cents a piece which if you I Was gonna say take if you take stock you can't take stock of how many roaches were in it because they're an insane amount Especially in that final like Explosion of roaches out of ups and Pratt Yeah, you can't you can't do it So apparently that was the most expensive aspect of the film like the one most expensive thing We're purchasing all these cockroaches because it was 50 cents per cockroach And you got to think that's 50 cents back in 1982. I wonder what the adjustment on that is for inflation nowadays I got to think over a buck a piece to put it in perspective. That's just me spit ball them So I don't know for sure But I'm sure someone could look that up now apparently the marble ash tray that first shows up in the very first story I'm not counting the kind of like overall story that ties them all together Because I'm not reviewing that one because it's barely a story really. It's just very quick But the marble ash tray that shows up in that first story apparently has a very small appearance in every single one of the stories That's the only thing that's in every single story now Maybe you want to go back and watch it and look for that just interesting bit of information Now we all know about fluffy fluffy is the creature that was in the crate in the crate Story, but that was Tom Savini who who created fluffy and that was actually Tom Savini's very first time Creating an animatronic creature now in order to get the information on that and figure out how to go about it and perfect His technique on it. He apparently spent a lot of time on the phone with Rob Boteen Obviously best known for his work on the thing John Carpenter's the thing so a guy of wonderful practical effects Pedigree so I just thought that was interesting that he got those pointers from Rob Boteen The crew used for the shoot of this film actually went on to then work together again on another film that some people may have a Place in their heart for which I do which is sleepaway camp the same crew for creep show did sleepaway camp Kind of cool. Even though Romero King obviously not tied to that one This film ended up touching off an anthology film fad But it actually ended up remaining the most successful of any anthology films that came after it So I mean you can see why and I would think that especially for Anthology not being as big of a thing and then they come out with this creep show anthology I could see where people were just kind of wowed by it because it it's not a new concept because anthology has been done before but if enough time passes and Something hasn't really been used a whole lot in film and then all of a sudden someone's doing it again It feels new to people And then like I said it touched off that fad I get the whole taboo horror material theme in the beginning of the film Uh, I actually had that in my young life, you know that I'm talking about when Tommy Atkins character is Grabbing the comic book from Joe Hill. That was Joe Hill Stephen King's son who played that character And I feel that because in my house when I was growing up when I was younger. I wasn't allowed to see things that were Horror related, you know, it was stay away from that. That's not good for you I know plenty of people now who grew up with No such restrictions and it makes me kind of wish that I hadn't missed out on so much back then Horror wise but trying to get caught up now. That's one of the reasons I Haven't seen creep show until now So I kind of related to the opening of that and I'm sure there are other people who related that too I like how stan references their stories You'll see as he rails against the comic he threw out Tom Atkins character stan. He Literally is like running through talking about the garbage that's in the comic book that he's just confiscated from his son And if you listen, he literally talks about in brief Summarization each of the stories that you'll end up seeing throughout the film I thought that was kind of like a cool. I don't want to say for shadowing but a cool kind of teaser for what's coming The creep himself looks excellent and the switch that they do then the animation and the opening credits also looks really cool great animation in this And finally seeing this film. I obviously see a lot more tie ins To the creep show series that's been on shutter Which by the way if you have interest I have reviews for every single episode of the creep show That's been on shutter including the special episodes. So you can check that out on my channel There's an entire playlist just for that which I think I'm going to put this in there too So let's start talking about the first story father's day. This one's relatively short I was kind of expecting and kind of wanting a little bit more out of it Especially when you get the eye well when you experience the other ones and how they're significantly longer some of them So when silvia tells hank that the three of them will sit down to dinner And then she corrects herself and says the four I had the idea that she was meaning That something was going to happen to hank Obviously that didn't end up happening But that kind of made that indicator to me but in the end there are just three to enjoy the cake And the cake is probably the best part of the Of the story. Obviously, I I'm assuming it is supposed to be because of the shocking reveal of it Because the dead man Nathan Forget his last name ever a grand thumb Just wants his cake. He just keeps talking about wanting his cake, which I think is hilarious So it like plays is like scary and creepy because obviously he's coming back from the dead But the fact that he just keeps saying cake cake. I want my cake worth my cake It adds that kind of light humorous factor to it, which obviously this film has a lot of that Like that's what they were going for they were trying to make it scary and creepy But also have plenty of humor in it to keep it light and fun And it's a good mix. It really is So when aunt bedelia is talking at the grave and the hand pops right out In the in front of the camera. It's kind of like this pop where it's just like this Um, that's I didn't do it nearly as well. Let me see It's still not good. But anyway, the way they pulled that off was really cool. I didn't see it coming That's a legitimately good jump scare, which a lot of films have done terrible jump scares So we're just like, okay, whatever that one was a good one because I didn't see it coming And the fact that they do it so close up in the camera It's even more kind of You know makes you takes you a back as an audience member because it's like it's coming at you In a sense it works Not sure why you would lie still while a big piece of rock is inching closer. You're falling on your head. That's talking about a hair Hank, sorry There were a lot of h's in this there was like a henry a harry and a hank. I wonder if there's something to that I don't I don't know But um ed uh harris's character Hank, sorry and confused again with these h's The fact that he's like laying on the grave and he's just watching this headstone just like inch towards Falling on his head and the fact that he just lays there like that kind of was ridiculous to me That was too over the top I think you should have tried to move and then maybe you know hit some a little bit faster So that was one thing I didn't really like because why would he just lay there? I guess you could give the reasoning that he was like Stunned with shock and terror like he just couldn't move. He was so scared sure but I don't know. It didn't play that well for me I do love that Grantham just keeps wanting his cake and the even better that he makes the cake out of sylvia's head Love that. I'm sure that's everyone's favorite part of that particular story And it does seem to play with the idea that you can't truly ever get away from your own flesh and blood Because it seems that the whole family had moved on from Nathan grant Grantham, but he had not moved on from them. He will come back He will celebrate that birthday. He is going to reclaim what it is And you just can't get away from your own flesh and blood no matter how much you How much you have tried to kill them which ampedilia did kill him Or how much you try to forget about him and you tell these stories that he's gone and dead and buried he comes back And I think that was kind of meant to be the subtext of this is that you can't ever truly get away from your past Truly get away from your family members and your ties to your family and probably genetics for that reason So anyway out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm giving the story father's day a three Star rating solid three star now. Let's go to the lonesome death of jordy verral this one very fun At first I didn't know how to feel about it It seemed a little too goofy a little too humorous, but as it kept going and I really saw what they were going for I was like, you know what? This is interesting and fun. I really enjoyed it one of the better ones in my opinion They're all good to some degree, but I love how it's steven king playing a hillbilly who pokes a meteor with a stick That just seemed particularly funny to me plus his accent that he uses and the fact that at certain points He has like one eye crossed. I'm sure people did catch that but he did a good job of like being a funny hillbilly I enjoyed that and he's just like dumb and poking a stick in a meteor. It's just It's got great humor to it that's baked in. I really enjoy that Now the wacky comedy really gets ramped up in this one Which there was a little bit of that prior, but that's when it really steps up So you don't know going forward are they going to do this a lot more in the stories or not? But you end up finding out obviously It works just fine, but I do think that the wacky music that they put into this one is a bit too much I wish they would have kind of taken that back a little bit because You know it's it's it's got enough wackiness and humor with what Stephen king is doing and the nature of the actual story the music was just going too over the top in my opinion But it was a different time. That stuff was way more acceptable then so I get it I love how the space vegetation. That's what I call it like the space grass or space vegetation I let's call it space grass. I love how the space grass looks and how it keeps taking over more and more I think that's probably the best thing visually appeal a visual appeal wise in this story Is how you just keep seeing that the space grass just keeps taking over more and more and more And the design of it looks really cool. Like it's this wonderful popping vibrant green The way it's designed to be Look like grass but also look like it's pointy to a point where it's like deadly Is also really cool with it like it looks menacing like how do you make grass look menacing? They didn't like this is how it was done So I like that aspect of it and then the fact that obviously obviously starts taking Jordy over The biggest issue for Jordy is how much he doubts and degrades himself. He never seeks help Notice that he never seeks help in this because he's afraid of what he thinks will end up happening Not just what he like his worst fears of what he thinks will happen to him including When the guy is like well, we're gonna have to cut off a body part But and that's all in his head But also what people are going to think of him and that's also represented in how he keeps calling himself a lunk head He's very self-deprecating. He has very low self-esteem and he's just more worried about how he appears to other people and You know being caught up in his own head than actually taking care of the problem and getting help from someone Which I think some people can probably relate to that Oh and by the way, uh Stephen King apparently was having an allergic reaction To all the stuff that they ended up putting on him for this story So he ended up needing to get a lot of shots to kind of keep him from having further issues I mean they forged ahead. They didn't change anything. So I mean he's a trooper for doing that It appears that the growth on Jordy happens as he drinks Now I may be wrong, but it kind of seemed like that to me. So as he consumes alcohol Excuse me alcohol Where am I from? So as he consumes alcohol the uncontrollable spacecraft consumes him I think this could be a point of a meditation kind of on alcoholism, which by the way Was a problem for king at at this time in his life He he struggled with alcoholism for a while and if you take note alcohol shows up in I think Every single one of these stories except I I don't think it's in the final one But it obviously plays a very significant role and that's because king's the one who wrote it He's very familiar with this and I think a lot of them end up showing these kind of Meditations on the struggle of alcoholism because a lot of the people who are tied to the alcoholism Are the people who end up being killed or the people who end up being bad people So just saying Now, uh, I give the lonesome death of jordy viril out of five stars and half stars and play a 3.5 I did enjoy it, but I could I just couldn't get it to the four Now let's talk about something to tide you over. This was the one with leslie neelson and ted danson Uh, richard is obviously very possessive leslie neelson's character as he talks a few times about what is mine That's one of the big things about him as a character which note he was drinking in this as well He's very hell bent on revenge because someone is sleeping with this woman And that's his property. Basically. He makes that point numerous times They really kind of hammer home how bad of a person he is and how possessive he is and that plays into Why he's so hell bent on revenge And yeah, he's just willing to go all out obviously When richard says he owns all of comfort point It really lets the audience know that harry is in a really bad spot He's totally screwed because he can yell and yell and yell while he's buried up to his neck and sand And nobody is going to hear him because there is nobody to hear him Except maybe his lady rebecca or as he calls her becky can hear him way down the beach where she is getting the same treatment The way richard shows harry what's going to happen to him with the live feed of becky really does increase the anxiety Not just for him, but for the audience of what's going to be coming You know think about that situation If you know something terrible is going to happen to you if you're shown that terrible thing That's happening live to another person that increases the fear that increases the anxiety that increases the dread Of what's coming right at you because you can know you're going to die but knowing exactly how it's going to happen Way worse. So I like the fake that I like the fact Sorry, I'm getting tired. I it's been a day. I like the fact that that's in the story. I really do I love the shot of harry's head under water with the red glow that's behind him that kind of gradually gets brighter and larger I think that's kind of symbolizing the um Exasperation of him holding his breath and how he's getting starting to build to that critical point Where he can't hold his breath anymore and he's going to have to start Taking in water and die. Uh, so I love that visual representation of of that. It looked beautiful. It looked very very cool So this one drives home that revenge isn't as sweet as it seems and your actions will eventually catch up to you Like they do for our killer richard really enjoyed this one. So out of five stars half stars in play 3.5 stars It is a good one Next to the crate Seems like henry feels alone and down in life with billy a dream bar post character Embarrassing him at the party and dexter seeming like he couldn't care less about being henry's friend anymore You obviously see that henry feels very downtrodden in life that he feels ignored by everyone that he feels kind of like He's obsolete. He's useless. He's not needed and people just kind of step on him Obviously billy does because she keeps degrading him at this party. She's getting hammered. She's making a fool She's making she's making a fool out of him and herself and just creating this big spectacle And he does nothing about it. Like he never stands up for himself. So That being where he starts and then seeing where he ends the film obviously really stepping up going overboard with that Is is a stark contrast that's very interesting also with this situation with this friend dexter Who obviously is more concerned about having Relations with his students than being a good friend to henry and spending time playing chess with him That's another thing that he has a hard time stepping up and talking about and addressing The fluffy reveal I think is really really good when you finally see that creature in the crate Super awesome really well pulled off fluffy looked really good and the blood And carnage that's tied to fluffy is well done You can see where johnny would think dexter did something to mike He's disheveled. There's blood all over and the explanation sounds nuts It's one of those moments of you're starting to think, you know Is dexter just seeing something or is this really what's going on? Is there really a creature in that crate or does this have to do with someone just losing it because there are these moments where you're like The crate's not there anymore and it's back under the stairs So maybe it never actually left and dexter's just like going a little bit nuts and he's a killer So I do like that aspect where you kind of question those things I didn't understand at first why henry would clean all the blood up Like he goes and he's just cleaning up dexter's mess basically But then when billy started reading the note that henry left for It clicked for me and I was like, oh This is how he changes. This is how he starts stepping up and taking care of his own problems By not directly taking care of his own problems, but letting someone like fluffy handle it for him Saw that perfect opportunity. He's like, I'm gonna solve these issues Henry scheme is a way to solve his problems without him directly causing harm He's finally turned the tide and stopped being downtrodden in his life But it'll end up being at what cost things seem pretty good for him by the end He solved the problem of billy is gone now. He doesn't have to deal with her He obviously hated her dexter is his friend again because he's holding this thing over top of his head So they just sit down and play some chess But fluffy is out there because we see at the end that fluffy gets loose When it's in the water at the I think it's a quarry basically And you see the face and that's where they leave it and who knows where it would go from there Does fluffy get out and wreak havoc on the world does fluffy come after henry? We don't know But it'd be good to get a follow-up So out of five stars with half stars and play another 3.5 on this one for me Now going into the final story. They're creeping up on you This one I think was my favorite. It was my favorite actually The level of cleanliness prat is obsessed with is very well established very immediately I think the visuals of how stark white the whole place is how kind of like sterile and also futuristic It looks and all these Steps that he's kind of taken to keep things clean and wall things off basically like Just kind of looking at people through that people and that little speaker You know having that uh little area where he can put all his tissues and everything in and it will it pushes the button It sucks it down You know everything has been simplified So there aren't places where these cockroaches can hide And where he can easily clean things and stay in a very sterile clean white environment And I said that intentionally for a reason coming up Pratt is so focused on his co- Sorry Pratt is so focused on his cockroach problem That every person he talks to can't shift his focus away from it no matter what they're saying You know they have that situation where one of his uh employees is dead. I think he had killed himself And he's speaking to the wife who's blaming him for it And it's like he's only partially listening like he can't fully focus because he keeps going back to I had this bug problem I have this bug problem So you not only see where his priorities are and how it's all about himself Especially in those little moments where he kind of gets pulled into the conversations a little bit But the fact that it's it's an obsession at this point It's something that his mind can't let go of that there are these bugs there But I question with the way that it's shot and if you really pay attention I question if there are even bugs there I would say there probably are not Because the way it's shot if you look There are times where the bugs are there and it looks like they're physically there I mean they were physically there on the set but from a film standpoint story standpoint It looks like they're supposed to be physically there and then these quick moments where Something it was there, but then it's not there So it gives you the idea. It's it's kind of all in his head The scale of the roach infestation in this is very impressive I was not expecting to see that many roaches, but kudos for going that far That's why it was very expensive at 50 cents a roach And then the finale with them all coming out of Pratt just wow on that I love that part. That is my favorite favorite part I think of the entire movie is when all of them just start getting pumped out of his body Can you imagine the cleanup on that set with all those cockroaches? Who's the cockroach wrangler go get them? This really drives home A little bit of humans versus nature And how people try to create their own tightly controlled environment Free of any unpredictable elements both nature-wise and society-wise And I add in society-wise there because there is a racist element To what Upson Pratt is saying and doing and how he's acting It's this whole thing of him kind of looking out at the city and not wanting the elements from the city the bad elements From the city getting in and then you see the racism further When he's talking to the gentleman who comes to his door who he's talking to through the speaker and the uh people And he even says he's like oh, that's probably you're probably good at that type of job You know you're kind you colored people. I mean obviously something a racist says so They it's in there intentionally obviously he is racist and that's why He's living in a very stark white Room keeping himself walled off. He is an extreme racist and he's very much afraid Of the outside undesirable element getting in which is what he views as cockroaches basically He views minorities as cockroaches in this is how I I see it and there's a lot of A lot to support that as I just kind of laid out But there is also this nature aspect to it where if you think about it In your home, we're trying to keep insects out of the house And it's just it's so hard to do that insects are always going to get in one way or another You know even as fast as just opening the front door like something can fly in But we try so hard to either kill them or throw them back outside I'm one of the people who throws them back outside Um We try so hard to do that because we want to keep ourselves separated from nature Because we have our own reality and then there's that outside reality of nature and that works both ways in this In this film or this particular story where he's doing that from a nature standpoint to keep the bugs out and to keep nature out But he's also doing it to keep a part of society out or even all of society at this point So I just thought those were some interesting things that ended up coming up Uh, this also gets to the racist element. Okay. I already talked about that. So that's actually done Um, really enjoyed this one. Like I said, this is my favorite one. I like them all but this one's my favorite So out of five stars half stars in play Four star rating on this particular story, which leads me to what am I giving to this entire film? Four stars. I mean that I had one at three I had the majority at 3.5 and then I had the one at four But when you put it all together, it's a very solid four I thought about maybe going a 4.5, but I don't think it quite reaches that level for me four stars It's a very good film. I really enjoy it. So some things to just kind of wrap up at the end The voodoo doll finish I thought to this was was fun with the the wraparound story I also really like the the garbage men who Tom Savini played one of them pulling the the comic out of the garbage and reading through it just showing that There are people out there who just love it. They they love these Horror comics and if the kids are not going to be able to have it these garbage men are going to enjoy it So I love that and then the fact that they're looking through in the coupon for the voodoo doll is missing Awesome because then you see the kid has gotten the voodoo doll and he's using it to take care of Stan his father Because he hates horror and comics The comic book aspects of this film worked really well and it keeps it very playful and interesting From a film perspective. It also gives this kind of charm to it Now i'm talking about the integration as far as the animation in the beginning Also, how they use those Cells they'll like move like an actual comic book from scene to scene At times which is really really cool way to integrate the comic book into it and then the colors too the colors and especially those High creep high scare moments where they have like bright colors in the background with some shapes That is something you would end up seeing in a comic book So I love the way they integrated that And the colors just look really cool in general in those moments Uh notice that alcohol consumption is in every story except the final one. Yeah, because king had a drinking problem I'm assuming there's a tie into that. He's talked a lot about you know having being very Obviously feeling very bad about his time being an alcoholic especially the impact that it had on his family and for Partially for that reason he writes a lot about family dynamics And the bad aspects and hurtful aspects of family dynamics Would you see a lot of that in the stories within this film? Obviously not in the final story, but a bunch of the other ones, you know father's day. Obviously, they're family dynamics there uh The crate there are with specifically Henry and billy that aspect of family dynamics, uh the um something that tied you over with You know breaking of trust within family dynamics because of uh, Leslie nielson's character richard and rebecca and the fact that she has You know cheated on him. So yeah, you know that type of stuff, but um, yeah Really enjoyed this. I'm glad I finally saw it. I'm sorry. This is a long review, but Uh put some comments down there. 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