 Thanks for checking out this no spoilers review. Yes, this is for the fifth episode of the creep show series That's being shown on shutter. That's being released weekly If you don't know I've been doing a review for every one of these episodes ahead of time Which is why I'm doing it as no spoilers Because when these are going on to my YouTube channel people have not seen them because they're not released yet Shutter has been nice enough to be hooking me up with the screen or copies like a week ahead of time for each episode So that said you can go back and watch all my other ones if you haven't seen them and let's get into episode 5 So the two stories for this are night of the paw and times is tough in musky holler One thing I want to say that applies to both of these stories upfront is that the comic panel aspect of things Which has been used throughout the series is used the heaviest in these two stories It could go wrong, but I actually think it works with these It's mainly done for backstory effect Well, and in the night of the pod actually starts the the storyline with it and with a lot of the stories That's kind of how they do some of the comic paneling they start it that way But this one I think both of these actually this episode these two stories It works really well how they incorporate the comic panels into telling backstory for things It's cool. I like it. I like the way it works. I know there might be some people who don't really dig it But I dig it Okay, so for night of the paw this one is written by Johnus Pizito who wrote this who wrote the scripts for graveyard shift He wrote a script for masters of horror and he did theater bizarre. So he's used to some anthology stuff Directed by John Harrison who has been hard at work directing a bunch of these stories for masters of horror He did the house of the head all how those Eve and Lydia Lane's better half Then for acting for this one Bruce Davison from best known from Harry and the Henderson's but he has a lot of acting credits is in this and he He's one of those guys were like if you don't necessarily know what he's from or you can't pinpoint him You will see his face and just be like I know that guy I know I've seen him in something or many things before but I just can't place it He's one of those people. He's gotten a lot of work a lot of like episodes of shows here and there and stuff like that, but he's He's he's a face that people will recognize and I will say I have to say his performance in night of the paw is very good very good Potentially the best performance of the series thus far. It's kind of between him and DJ quals in the finger, but Davison Bruce Davison he really brought it He did an excellent job and to be honest with this story and how it how it progresses in the dialogue and everything like that And how heavy the dialogue is for Bruce Davison's character This story lives or dies based on Bruce Davison's performance and for that reason I like this one because Bruce Davison really really brought it for this performance. He did an excellent job He's mesmerizing on screen. He delivers his lines with all the emotion that he's supposed to be using at any given time I'm very impressed with his performance there Nice directing on this one by John Harrison I think in general every single episode that John Harrison has directed has looked really good He comes up with some interesting camera angles Really nice directing good looks The story unfolds in a very intriguing way at least very early It arises kind of a lot of questions in the viewer's mind of like well, what's going on with this? What about this? Why are we doing this? So it sets up a lot of mystery to the story Which obviously slowly unfolds and they kind of tell you what's going on with it as they should This is one of the longer ones too. I think it clocked in around 25 minutes ish So actually I think this is thus far the longest of all the all of these creep show series stories There's a ton of dialogue to this So there's not a ton of action It does get to some of it to other things going on but there's a lot of dialogue to it and like I said the overwhelming majority of that lies with Davison and the character he's playing and he does it well so This is an old story at heart A lot of people already know this story It'll definitely seem familiar if you don't already recognize it based off the title You will recognize it pretty much based off of The first five minutes or so of it So it's an old story. It's a good story. It's stood the test of time in my opinion I like what they did with it for this how they put their own kind of spin on it the setting they used for it It works. It's not anything phenomenal. It didn't revolutionize the story It didn't change it massively at the heart of it. It's still the exact same story But I think that what they did to it didn't It changed it enough that I enjoyed it and didn't look at it as oh It's the exact same story that I've seen a million times So they updated it enough to be worth watching in my opinion The story basically speaks to the fear of pain and loss This is something that you know is touched on in horror quite a lot And I think the way that the script was written the way that the story unfolds I think it touches on pain and loss very well very effectively. It's impactful There's a twist at the end that is pretty good. I did enjoy the twist Sorry, my wife's upstairs cooking she dropped something There's a twist to the story that is pretty good My biggest problem with this though towards the end is there's a terrible computer graphics moment Terrible CG at the end everyone will know what I'm talking about when you see it Or if you're watching this after the fact when you saw it everyone knows I'm talking about there's only one moment of CG in this and it is Awful it looks so bad. It just speaks to why CG is terrible It looks bad, and I they should have just gone a different direction to be honest Just like edit that out and do it in a different way No CG it was bad So the other the other last thing that I didn't like so much is that there's a decision that one of the character make one of the Characters makes in this that they should have and would have learned a lesson about Earlier in the story and you'll know what I'm talking about. It's When it happened, I was just like I this is not believable that this person is making this decision right now when They already learned they should not make that decision so you know anyway But I'd be interested to see what other people have seen it think about that. So obviously put your comments down there So that's my review on night of the paw Giving it a review or giving it five Giving a star rating on the five-star scale with half stars in play Amongst all of these short creep show stories. I'm gonna give it a A three to half you have three and a half stars. I liked it. Well enough. I thought it was pretty solid All right, so now let's move on to times is tough in musky holler Which was the second one written by John skip and Dory Miller. I could not find anything on a Dory Miller I don't know who that is John skip He was credited with the story idea for a nightmare on Elm Street 5 the dream child That's the most recognizable thing I could find so relative unknowns basically this one also directed by John Harrison So you can rest assured the directing's handled. Well, the camera work is good. It looks aesthetically pleasing nice work. John Harrison Doing a good job very very steady in the directing role there, bud David Arquette is the big name in this one and Obviously most well known for the screen movies, but he's done some other stuff out there And he did a really good job with this performance It was weird to me though because he wasn't in the most central role in this story And I would think when you bring in a name like David Arquette for something like this that you would give him the role With the most dialogue and they didn't I think he played his role really well He has a thick southern accent and he did the accent. Well, he did the role Well, all his dialogue was was quite good. He delivered for what he was supposed to do But I just think he should have been in the most dialogue heavy role and Although I will say that the guy who had that role did a good job with it But it just doesn't make sense like when you're getting such a big name You want them to have as much screen time as possible typically So I don't know that just seemed kind of weird to me but There's some dialogue in the very beginning of this it starts with a bunch of dialogue and it kind of seems like a Time-waster the dialogue doesn't seem to really be going anywhere and even when you get through to the end of it It there wasn't a whole lot of reason for it So it seemed like a bit of a time-waster which is weird because I believe this is probably the Shortest of all of these stories in the creep show series. It's I clocked in around 15 minutes Ish like 13 to 15 somewhere in there Overall the dialogue is actually kind of rough in this to be honest It's not super well written in my opinion The dialogue feels a little stilted although some of that could have to do with some of the Delivery of the lines by some of the actors. It just felt a little bit weird at times Like I said directing is good there's a specific shot of an extended scene that's focused on that on the the face of a The head of the main character basically the guy who has the most dialogue in it And it's a very extended Cut and it looks cool The perspective of the camera on this person's head looks really cool, and I really like that Once again comic panels used a lot in this with backstory works pretty well So in the end there was a fun concept to this It was really really slow kind of getting there and then they kind of reveal what the concept of it is and where it's going and it's interesting it's Original ish, and I liked it, but then they start to Have the resolution at the end and all the you know things are eventually gonna get crazy at some point with these and that's when it's happening and There's some good practical effects and some good gore and violence But there's also a lot where they're cutting away from it And it feels like this is your time when you need to show all of it because if you're doing this creep show series for shutter specifically What is the point of not going in all the way and showing as much gore and violence as you can when the story calls for it? Because the story is calling for it, but they are choosing to cut away to cut the camera away and show other things while What you should be seeing is going on granted you see some of it, but in my opinion it's not enough I guarantee it has to do with budgetary constraints It's almost always is like that maybe something to do with time constraint I don't know, but I'm just saying that as an audience member I felt cheated a bit with what was going on there and there should have been more, but That's my assessment of that one That's all I have to say about times is tough it in musky holler overall on a five-star scale with half stars and play for this one I'm gonna give this one a two this is getting a two star not huge on it There were some good aspects of it like I said an interesting concept, but not big on it So let me do like I've been doing I'm gonna rank all the stories thus far through 10 episodes from the last to the first in my opinion and then Yeah, so my number 10 at the moment is all hollows Eve My number nine is Lydia Lane's better half My number eight is times as tough in musky holler My number seven is gray matter my number six is bad wolf down My number five is night of the paw my number four is the companion My number three is the man in the suitcase My number two is house of the head and my number one is the finger So there you have it. I look forward to the final one to see what my final rankings are on this one And yeah, hopefully everyone is enjoying going through this with me I would love to hear some of your rankings to put it down there in the comments thus far through these 10 stories, what are you thinking? And then we'll We'll see what we think after all 12 are done But thank you everyone for checking this out. Do me a quick favor hit that subscribe Can help me out a lot with my channel means very little to you because it takes like a second And it's painless and cost you no money. So just hit that for me real quick I would appreciate that but thanks for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal