 Thanks for checking out this movie review. So this is for the 1987 anthology film creep show 2 And I'm gonna say off the bat. I think creep show 2 is probably about half as good Maybe a slight bit less than the original creep show I'm sure there are a lot of people who would kind of agree with me on that one It kind of looks like the budget got taken back a bunch I don't know if that was actually true or not But maybe someone can enlighten me in the comments thinking about doing creep show 3 from 2006 But if you want to warn me about that and say no definitely don't do it or if you think I should definitely give it a crack I've heard it's not so hot. So how bad is it? Go ahead and put some comments down there Anyway creep show 2 directed by Michael Gornick who did tales from the dark side. He directed a few episodes of that This is a big change because George A Romero had directed the original creep show and Stephen King had written the scripts For that for each of the stories and while overall script including those stories now for this one George A Romero still involved. He wrote the screenplay. He wrote the script With basically an outline from Stephen King because all the stories came from Stephen King stories So he did the outline then George A Romero took it and wrote the script. So a lot of different stuff I mean directing is obviously different the writing is obviously different So you can really really see that and tell But you know there are obviously things that they kept kind of in common with it I think overall the the story the feels of the stories are kind of similar obviously because in the first one And the second one they all came from Stephen King. So that makes sense They do try to keep that kind of little bit of a humor vibe to it as well a little bit of absurdity here and there But I will say this this was one of the interesting things I would have thought that they would have continued with that kind of panels of the Comics thing that they were doing in the first one and then like those flashes of interesting color at certain times But they totally did away with that I guess it's because they assume that the actual animated portion of the wraparound story would kind of make up for that I don't think it does though. I think it just kind of Puts it in its own area Instead of incorporating it throughout the film. So I don't think that works as well in my opinion We way better in the first one Daniel beer who ended up playing the character of Randy in the raft Actually apparently got hypothermia during the filming and some people in on the crew We're really pushing to just keep going and get the film done But apparently Michael Gornick said no we have to stop because this could be serious and apparently he was not doing well Like it definitely could have been a situation where if they just push forward he could have died So that is interesting to know so good job Michael Gornick on doing the right thing And that's why you need directors who have a good moral compass and are actually concerned about their talent Just saying Tom Savini ended up playing the creep in it I think if I did a pretty good job Although I don't really like the design of the creep the new one versus the one in the first one the design in the first one looks really creepy and Scary and interesting and cool and obviously that's like practical effects This one and this is part of the reason I say it looks like they had less of a budget This one's just put some prosthetics on an actual person It just looks like an old guy who's kind of creepy with like a Balsak chin basically if you feel me especially in the comic or the animated version He's not that scary. He's not that interesting I mean the line delivering the dialogue for him is pretty solid, but in comparison to the first one It's just not as good now apparently it's rumored rumored that Nicholas Cage was supposed to play the creep at one point now I don't know if I believe that or not because Nowadays when you go through and do research on it a bunch of older films you end up hearing inevitably You know Nicholas Cage was considered for this and Nicholas Cage was supposed to do this and it's I Think it might maybe BS. I do feel like there are people out there who just kind of like to create this this What am I looking for this this myth About Nicholas Cage and kind of like build him up like a Bill Braske or or a Chuck Norris type Situations, so I don't know if I've really believed that but it was also rumored apparently that they considered using Arnold Schwarzenegger for the role of old chief wooden head in the old chief wooden head story, which That could have been interesting But the thing is like you don't He doesn't talk like you don't really see him because he's under so much prosthetics that it's like Would it have really mattered? They really would have just been going for the size and then being able to tie his name to it So I don't really know how that would have gone or if it really would have mattered all that much honestly Now David Holbrook start who starred in the old chief wooden head Short his father Hal Holbrook starred in the crate story in the very first creep show So I thought it was cool that there was that connection right there obviously the crate way better than old chief wooden head as a story way better Two stories were actually cut from this which I want to know why because To me it seemed like all three of the stories that were in this Not including the wrap around one because I was very short all three of the actual stories in this that were live Action seemed like they were drawn out way too much that they were trying to stretch them for a runtime So instead of doing that they really should have cut it back a bunch and then put one of these other stories in there Have four stories instead you can hit that hour and a half mark Which is basically what the movie is at the moment And it would have moved things a lot better because a lot of actually all the stories had really bad pacing issues In my opinion now if they would have cut them down like I said put another story in there Could have been a lot better But the two stories that ended up being cut one was called cat from hell Which actually ended up being in the movie for tales from the dark side and the other one was called pinfall Which apparently was about a rival rival ghost bowling teams Honestly, I'm very interested in that. I would actually like to see a oh, I don't know if I want to say this I Was gonna say I would like to see a feature length of that, but maybe I don't I think you know Maybe it's a better bite-size type thing just saying the opening music is Amazingly 80s and I do love that because I'm from the 80s. I love 80s music, you know So that kind of nostalgia to it quite like it So I'm going to review like I did for the first creep show I'm gonna Individually review each of the stories except the wrap around that's not really much of a story And then I'll do like an overall this will be easy though. You'll see the pattern So for old chief wooden head you can tell Ray has a hard time with change and accepting it as a conversation that he has with Martha his wife first thing really shows that it kind of shows this This place used to be thriving. This used to be a nice area now You know, it's falling on hard times running this general stores really not working But rage is just refusing to move on, you know, it's speaking to that stubbornness of Things were the way they used to be and I'd like to see if maybe they can get back there Like refusing to let go of the town basically and refusing also to realize that people in the town have changed They're not as nice. They're not able to afford things It's you know, he wants to see the good in society But Martha is kind of more of the realist who's kind of saying look, you know We got to face the facts about this but Ray obviously trying to hold on The acting and actually this applies to all of the stories for the most part acting is pretty rough Not very good at all. You do get some nice flourishes here or there, but for the most part acting not so good And just when Ray and Martha are seeing the good in humanity the pendulum swings the other way obviously they're Their interaction with Benjamin who comes and gives them something very valuable to hold on to for the time being While they owe and then they say they'll pay it down and then get the thing back That kind of you know lifts their spirits makes them feel better about people and then right on the heels of that you have I guess that's Benjamin's son Come in in with his two buddies and just busting things up destroying stuff stealing Yeah, so it's just kind of like riding a high about humanity and then seeing the low of it Which I feel like all this kind of experience that Probably about on a daily basis I know I do. Oh man, hold McElaney plays Sam in this the the leader of this terrible group who busts into the general store I really loved Holt Mcnay Mac McElaney Jesus hard to say for for me for some reason I really liked him in Fight Club really liked him in Mine Hunters Obviously Mine Hunters he had way more of a role than in Fight Club, but great actor So it was just kind of cool to see him in a younger role and I thought I Wouldn't say his acting was like particularly good. It was pretty over the top, but it was fun is what I would say Sam's talk about his hair and Hollywood is way too much That's one of the things in general in this movie is that the dialogue is not that great like the way the dialogue's written Feels too Shin see it's way too basic It's too much of it because it's just wasting time. That's one of those big time wasters. I was talking about seeing in this film Just a lot of the dialogue just stupid and doesn't add anything and seems like a time waster And his whole talk about like look how great my hair looks look at how good I look I'm going to Hollywood like it's fine to have that but the fact that it keeps going Because it's a weird thing in the first place to have in there But it's fine to do it real quick, but to just keep it going then people are just like What what is this about really? The music in this one does get pretty over the top. Yeah, the old Chief Woodenhead music is pretty over the top I don't think it says as over the top in the other ones But in this one, it's really over the top and way too much and need to really be pulled back Chief Woodenhead does look pretty cool and the kills are relatively okay A few of them kind of cool ish like the arrows in the large guy I mean that that was okay. And like I said Chief Woodenhead looking kind of cool I did enjoy the design of Chief Woodenhead This obviously plays heavily on the idea of karma Obviously because these guys show up do something terrible think they're gonna get away from it No, old Chief Woodenheads come in and he's going to kill you and then we're done with the story So very old trope that gets used there. It's fine Overall out of five stars with half stars in play two stars on that one Next is the raft Okay So the use in the car sure are annoying and you actually just really hope the death ends up coming all their way And it kind of does Except oh, yeah, it does because I was thinking for a second Randy gets away. No, Randy actually didn't end up getting away in the end. He almost did So I'm glad they all got it because they're annoying and this is another one I was like I was talking about the dialogue is terrible. It makes you hate these people pretty much The thing in the water initially just looks like a large trash bag Thankfully when that you look at it closer It actually has more of like a texture to it and also when it starts coming out of the water That's when it actually looks cool That's when I like it and then when people are getting consumed by it looks cool then too Obviously, that's very kind of like blob esque from the remake type blob, which actually didn't come out at this point But it makes you think about that Yeah, that remake of the blob was a year after creep show too Interesting. Oh, also, I really like the touch of having the skin kind of disintegrating off people While that blob was on them. I really like that aspect of it This could have been a really good story, but it just felt like it stagnated It felt like it was stretched for time. They needed more interesting stuff going on in it Maybe just a higher body count. I don't know because it's a decent concept. I Like how deke thinks Randy should know exactly what's going on in this situation since he's kind of the science guy You know, like he makes comments. He's like, well, you know about science. Why don't you know what this is? You know about science. Well, what do we do? You know? It's that typical like Stupid writing like not good dialogue so Randy tries to assault Laverne and Then doesn't try to save her when the blob ends up grabbing her so Randy was looking kind of like the good guy and tell I Think it was Laverne zero Laverne or Rachel. I think it was over and though He was looking like a good guy until she falls asleep and then he moves in in a very horrible way to try to assault her And then you're like, oh, no He's actually a terrible human being and then he takes the terribleness to the next level when The blob starts attacking her and he doesn't even try to save her. He doesn't even try to help her He literally sees what's going on is like. Well, actually this is my chance to get away So and that's probably why he doesn't actually end up getting away Because he has to pay and like in the first one there's that bit of karma at play here And I do think the burp at the end. I think that was kind of funny I really like that they added that at the very end with this blob thing burping after eating I'm a fan of that This plays off fears of being isolated and too far from civilization to get help if Well in the case that something ends up going wrong. I know I have that fear when I get out into the boonies I'm just like man if I you know run out of gas or have something wrong with my car or need some sort of help have a medical emergency whatever like Potentially screwed and this really really placed that I think this also was potentially supposed to kind of hit a little bit of a court about Pollution and how potentially that's the origin of what this is it was kind of like Similar to something like an oil slick or plastic in the ocean and then it's getting its revenge on people This two stars as well for the raft in my opinion now the final one the hitchhiker Pretty quick way to set up Annie is a morally corrupt person when she's sleeping around on her husband And then the hit-and-run happens so they go very very hard on showing you how terrible of a person Annie is This is another one where it's like we don't really care about anyone at least in Old chief wooden head like you liked Ray and Martha and you liked Benjamin But other than that in in the rest of that and all the other stories You're really like anyone everyone sucks like you can't really root for anyone And I think that's a mistake because it kind of takes people out of the actual fear aspects of it Because you're not feeling the fear or feeling scared for any characters you're more just sitting there being like yeah fine Kill them like that person sucks. I don't care kill them all like it's it's whatever and just sure It's fun to watch films in that way sometimes as well, but if you're really trying to engage people You got to like have some sympathetic characters really Stephen King is a truck driver on this take note of that I'm sure most people caught that one, but some people might not because he did look kind of different Definitely a lot different than he did in the first group show The music takes the wacky aspect of this way over the top another instance of the music being too much Not too much in the sense of the old chief wooden head one where it's just like beating you over the head But this one is just giving it that zany wacky feel and it's just taking it overboard in my opinion So similar situation, but not the same The ramming scene I really did like this when the guy is like on the front of her car And she keeps slamming it into the tree and then he's like stuck on the tree and just she just keeps going after it That was a good portion. That's probably my favorite part of the entire movie Which really isn't saying a whole lot, but it was it felt brutal it looked kind of brutal the practical effects worked really well I like that You get the idea Annie is losing it She was talking to herself before the hit-and-run happened and it just devolves after that it gets so much worse So it it seems like it's kind of her conscience that's coming for her And I don't actually think that she committed the hit-and-run in the first place I mean you can see or actually, um, actually she probably did sorry I changed my mind on that because they took they Intentionally have you see these other people showing up to the scene with the guy there? So I I'm guessing maybe she's either being haunted by his ghost Because he's been killed or that's just her conscience coming for her at that point because she tried to Run, you know, it was a it was a literally a hit-and-run making her even worse than just cheating on her husband even I mean even paying for sex was Hitting someone with her car and then keep going trying to act like it's not a big deal But your conscience will get you if you're a semi decent person. I guess any kind of was them Definite socio-economic statement as well as racial in this one It shows a rich white lady treating a black hitchhiker like his life does not matter at all Obviously, so you got the two things her treating him like he doesn't matter because you know Most likely doesn't have a whole lot of money because he's trying to hitchhike And then on top of that rich white lady standing in opposition to a what you're assuming is poor black man Just saying Makes sense for someone like george a romero to be down to put a story like that out there like I've said In my review of creep show. I believe that was the point in the the one with the cockroaches as well It was white versus black same thing, you know rich white guy Who's afraid of people who are black? Um, and that's shown quite Prominently in that I think this one Is a little less subtextual like the the rich one is and way more in your face about it So, you know just overall points to how Less subtlety with with creep show 2 and less nuance and less finesse And a lot more just in your face kind of brazen and lazy to a degree So this story gets a two stars as well for the hitchhiker I'd so you can assume my overall rating is two stars for creep show 2 The wraparound story would have been cool to see done in live action Actually, especially because of those giant man-eating plants. That's another thing They could have just taken that wraparound story and added more to it Made it live action cut down some of the other ones Or just put one of those original two that they cut in there because like I said, they needed to cut the other ones down In general the dialogue is not good I already talked about that and there's a lot of wasted timing each of the stories You can definitely tell that they really were stretching that for runtime Which like I said doesn't make any sense because you cut stories Like all this stupid dialogue all these You know trying to do things between characters that doesn't develop the characters or doesn't really establish anything about them It was pointless. It's not good. You know, this isn't the best that george rameiro has done If you just watch creep show one and two you would probably come to the conclusion Maybe rameiro should just stick to directing because he does a great job with that But then you you look and you see oh, well, he did day of the dead He did dawn of the dead. He did night of the living dead. Obviously he can write well It's just in this point at this point. Not really. Oh, and it's important to point out that This film creep show two came After rameiro had done day of the dead And before he did monkey shines, which I have not seen monkey shines. Obviously I've seen day of the dead But yeah, so anyway, uh overall two stars on creep show two Talk me out of her out of it or talk me into it creep show three Should I do it put the comments down there? 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