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Creepshow Information
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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...


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Creepshow
05/30/2005: 637 words, approx. 2 pages
BOOKS Creepshow Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black is spooky, smart, and deep. BEYOND BLACK HILARY MANTEL. HENRY HOLT. 365 PAGES. $26. GHOST STORIES, ESPECIALLY ones that come in the tasteful wrapping of the literary novel, often seem haunted far more by metaphor than the...
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Horrow and Humor;Crawling Creepshow 2, Orginal Deadtime
05/06/1987: 701 words, approx. 2 pages
In modern Hollywood, some films seem designed for the VCR, not for the theater. A case in point: "Creepshow 2," a sequel to 1982's generally desultory "Creepshow," an attempt to revive the long-dormant anthology film. Though it was no "Dead of Night," "Creepshow" had...


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Critical Essay by Michael Sragow
849 words, approx. 3 pages
Despite King's plodding prose and facile characters, he's managed to concoct plots multilayered enough to sustain the length, and sometimes the scrutiny, a feature film demands. At his best, he puts everyone in touch with the nightmare anxieties of youth…. [Creepshow] is a salute to the cult-beloved EC horror comic books of the early Fifties. As a movie, Creepshow is negligible, but as a cultural indicator, it's terrific—a big clue to what even the most skillful and likabl...
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Critical Essay by David Ansen
266 words, approx. 1 pages
Revenge—the more horrible the better—is a favorite adolescent fantasy, and it is the subject of four of the five tales of horror that comprise Creepshow, an unashamedly adolescent spectacle dreamed up by director George Romero and writer Stephen King. A murdered patriarch bursts from his grave to take revenge on his family. A cuckolded husband … buries his wife and her lover up to their necks in the sand and forces them to watch each other drown on closed-circuit TV. The appearance of a...
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Critical Essay by Richard Corliss
152 words, approx. 1 pages
In the past, Novelist Stephen King … and Director George A. Romero … have shown that they know how to scare people through the poetry of pulp…. In Creepshow they have aimed lower, and hit the mark. The film is an elaborate tribute to Tales from the Crypt and other horror comic books of the early '50s. Five tales play with the theme of moral revenge taken on corrupt humankind by nature, alien forces or the Undead. But the treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the j...


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