I’ve always loved watching and re-watching these over the years. Its been so long since i’ve seen the first, I don’t remember what the stories were. I think that’s because they show part 2 quite often and I’ve learned there’s a 3rd movie. Only one thing, I also sometimes get what stories are creepshow and what is Tales from the Crypt (or is Creepshow part of that ‘Tales of Terror’?)
When they mentioned a tv show would be coming I was a little disappointed it would be on a streaming service. Thankfully though it was aired on AMC (the Home of the Walking Dead)
Here I review the movies as well as any seasons of the show. My recap/review of the 2nd movie and first season is already finished, but this will be updated as I watch the movies and as season 2 goes on.
Creepshow 1982
(find it on Just Watch 
Not sure if I have the titles noted in order, but as I remember some of the tales without having to watch I’ll include a quick summary. You can find on amazon to rent.
The Lonesome Death of Jordi Verrill
Stephen King!!
Simple farmer Jordy finds a meteor, picks it up and brings it home. He finds his finger has something growing on it.
Not sure if it was radiation that caused what happens to jordy, but that will teach ya not to pick things up not of this world.
Father’s Day
I remember a cake, a family and an old man. aside from that I don’t remember much, other than a tiny spec of what happens.
The Crate
This is the best! So other than the picture…I’m not telling
Creepshow 2
1987 R 92 minutes
The following are based on stories by Stephen King. I remember seeing these so long ago, but still remember them more or less. Though I usually get these and the ones from the first Creepshow movie mixed up as to which are in what volume.
Old Chief Wood N’ head
In the Town of Dead River, the old general store and its elder owner is one of the last holdouts in town to sell. When the store is robbed, its guardian, a wooden Indian goes to war on the criminals. this is the one I always liked and remembered best, as well as
The Raft …
a bunch of what I think is supposed to be 20 somethings go for a swim at a pretty lake. When they get there they are trapped by what looks like floating sludge garbage)
I don’t know what it is about movies with water but for some reason THESE are the ones that make me think twice about going in the water. First Jaws (ankle deep first time in ocean and ask are there sharks.. Mind you I think this was in Jr. high!) and this movie which there WAS a raft like this I had to swim out to at a lake beach we’d go to. Between shore and the raft everytime something (weeds ?) touched me I would freak out. One time to the point where the lifeguard had to call me out.
The last is the Hitchhiker. which is basically a struggle with one’s conscious . A wife cheats on her husband and No that’s not her problem, its what comes next on her way to hopefully beat her husband home.
Creepshow 3
find where to JustWatch sadly its not available for free and only seems to be available on Indieflix. Looking up on Amazon, not available on prime and the only options for video are astronomical! I saw $40 and up! Trying to open the movie to play it I get an error message after I sign up. There are 3 subscription plans starting at $4.99 (after a 7 day trial) or $50 a year. Yeah I think I may do that trial and Un-sub right after I watch.
The opening is a crappy computer animation and all i’m thinking is someone got the rights to make a 3rd film…they are not helping themselves with that intro. F on that.
Alice
Girl walking home on her phone talking about hates her neighbors and can’t wait to get out of there. She gets home and everyone is gathered around, and her dad is fiddling with a universal remote . When he clicks a button and the phone doesn’t work, then she has a new family. With each zap of the remote she becomes physically deformed. (is this supposed to be moral of the story she’s as ugly on the outside now as she is on the inside?) When her hand as a burn or whatever that’s supposed to be the make up goes up to her wrist maybe a little past and just stops suddenly, even looks like some of it was folded down. Not memorable in the least.
The Radio
A security guard lives in a slum of a house. He buys a radio off some homeless man who yells alot (and for no reason) and soon the antenna and a knob breaks off. When he goes to trash it, it starts talking to him.
This was a big YAWN
Call Girl
Some frat looking guy calls Rachel, a call girl. He says his family is out of town, meanwhile they walk right by them or whoever that was. can’t say much else or it will ruin the suspense (if there is even any in that) and the cool part.
This is the best so far. And may end up being the memorable one.
The Professor’s wife
More comedic than anything. Think Stepford wife meets horror with Lots of blood I promise that and its a bit of a cliche
Haunted Dog
This may end up being a little memorable.
Some A-hole cuts in line at a hot dog stand. When karma tries to get him, after dropping the hot dog on the ground, he gives it to a homeless man. This guy we find out is supposed to be sentenced (for some reason) to work at the free clinic for 30 days. He’s a pill popper too, just no idea what kind he’s taking. He keeps seeing the homeless man.
Honestly was it Romero and King who originally started this, well if I was King, I would sue the pants off everyone on the creative team for this.
Creepshow (series)
While I’m not crazy about remakes and reboots, there are just some that
- Do not ruin the original story
- Is on par with (or better than) the original
- Good or interesting (as original?) Stories/plot lines
- Someone attached to them that I respect in some fashion
- TBD
Creepshow on shudder and on AMC fits all those points for me.
Greg Nicotero, yes executive producer and FX make-up extraordinaire of The Walking Dead, has brought Creep show back with 12 more terrifying terrors,.
At the start seeing this character on the left, I didn’t remember him from the movies. They start with some comic frames morphing into ‘live action’ that character on the left. I don’t know if it ever was originally a comic, but it sure reminds me of one of the Tales from the Crypt characters. Definitely NOT the crypt keeper or the witch, I can’t think of the name of the other one let alone find it. Ah that’s it… I think its the Vault Keeper from the Vault of Horror series of the comics
Episode 6… SKINCrawlers Opens on a skeleton and warning if you don’t like spiders… LOOK AWAY.
It mentions something about skin deep, which sounds familiar I wonder if its the name of a past Creepshow title (from the first movie, or orginal series). THis one was a bit nauseating.
*By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain a father goes missing after hunting down a sea monster. Like father like daughter; the teen girl finds what her father was after.
Season 2
I saw some ads for the new season and was a bit sad as I didn’t have extra money to subscribe to shudder for a month. LUCKY ME!!! AMC is airing it again. So anyone who works for any TV/Cable Stations that get the rights to air the streaming shows… THANK YOU!
The new season starts off with is that Kevin Dillon? in episode 1
Model Kid
A young boy who loves monsters like the Gilman, The mummy and so on who to his mother calls them his friends. He gets bullied in school for liking them. His mother is supportive and sadly has cancer. They watch movies on a reel to reel projector, and he puts together and paints models of the Monsters. His mother tells him his Aunt and Uncle are moving in until they get back on their feet and while she goes for another round of chemo. The young boy is not happy, as he doesn’t like his uncle and I don’t blame him. The uncle is an ass and no better than a school bully to the kid. Some how one of the monsters comes to life, Then in a dream, His mom hands him one of his monster magazines (comics) and there he finds ‘The Victim’ model he does not yet have. I enjoyed this not only for the story but seeing all the posters etc. around the boy’s bedroom.
Public Television of the Dead
Ted Raimi
a spoof on Channel 13 PBS I guess you could say as there’s a Bob Ross wannabe The LOVE of Painting, and Mrs bookberry’s Library with some puppet. During an antique’s appraisal show a gentleman (Raimi) brings an ancient book on, and the appraiser starts to read it
(WARNING… NEVER EVER read aloud the text in an ancient book unless you absolutely know what it will do.)
From there Blood hits the fan and the few that’s left have to send the demons back to hell.
Dead and breakfast
Ali larger. Tommy howell?
Spinster murder house. Supposed to be first female serial killer
They have no reservations for their b & b
They check out other serial killer resv. And there are a bunch.
They contact an influencer to get the word out there …….
Pesticide
Harlan king exterminator
Omg eugene from twd
Is a bit of a pest himself
& ‘Murdoch’ can’t remember a tire name but has been around
He hires Brown to get rid of another type ofvermin
E3 The right snuff
Is one of those astronauts Ryan kwanten? & brekyn mayer??? ocula About to hit an asteroid shower or some form of space debris is c3po or r2 on this ship? Thought I just heard some of their noises Mission.
Sibling rivalry
Molly Ringwald Not crazy about these 2
E4
opening reminds me of ahh! real monsters Pipe screams A building’s pipes are clogged and has lead pipez…the landlord a bitch tells the plumber if he reports it it will be the end of him. Something tells me its not the usual grease N hair clogging things… What a pretty cat. Traces orob back to apt the owner of the cat… Within the walls of madness A u.s. detention center Some lab in a cold area Some vortex ???.’i”t came in through the walls”. (Guess my guess was right) And incriminating e I fence he’ll be blamed for
5 night of the living late show
Open with night if the living dead back drop As a VR game? Justin long Kind of boring but enjoyed the idea of the VR movies (reminded me of Ready Player one where they can go in the movies)
6
animated special
survivor type
a surgeon is stranded on an island
road trip (?)
Circus of the dead
This was better (eventually)
Season 3
May have mentioned before the likness to tales from the crypt with the magazine (esp. Style and layout)
6 episodes
1 Mums, queen bee
Mom decides to go to visit family, and take her son jake. Her husband is waiting at door with reinforcements, obviously the abusive type. She called him a supremist and terrorist, so my judgement is pretty much right in the money, speaking of which finds some in the suitcase with a clip around One bundle.
He says he’s going to make a citizen arrest. Plus she’s had mental and alcoholic problems.
Something happened when they take her away in the pickup.
I have a feeling the brunette knows what’s going on or something ‘nefarious’ minor or major.
While asleep the son dreams the mother Is dead.
The kid plants some seeds (mums)
When they grow they look like there’s hair on them
In queen bee there’s A diva singer that has gone into labor and a gurl big fan.. And 2 friends steal her moms hospital key card to ‘break in’ for some pictures.
A guard finds them an accident and they get away. Doctor etc with green eyes
2 skeletons in the closet, familiar
Skeletons…
A movie prop collector has a museum, the oropsvarebhus fathers legacy. His khan is Bates, always out bidding him. He takes it to far when he (bates) pays for a visit. Specifically to see what’s behind the curtain before the new collection premieres.
There are many identifiable props from (mostly horror movies) some mentions of tv and other genre movies but there’s a Freddy glove (however does not look original to me) saw things from psycho, evil dead and a few other but I’d say best was from phantasm.
I wonder how many were the real thing and others remade(if at all)
Ok that chick did not do the shower Scene well.
Creep show guy at the end lol
Familiar
A couple goes to boones good eye. Some fortune teller, but no site of the person when they walk in.
The actor looks familiar.
The guy is a skeptic, but while reading the girls palm he passes a note to the guy something bad followed him in.
Once home, the door opens of its own accord.
At work his copier prints on its own and the furniture goes ‘paranormal activity’
3
‘Tsubadya
Some Japanese artist dies and his lawyers have found his lone descendant. But is only to be passed to family.
The kid sells it, and the rich guy at unveiling makes everyone gasp. I bet he released some spirit or demon that was in the painting.
After he’s seeing things, like the subjects of the paintings move or change.
The painting and even a sketch is scarier than the costume. This is where at least some CG should have been used.
Oh this is a good one
Wait HOW
Ok ill bite
4
stranger sings
A main street and a book shop. arms full of books and a hot coffee but the guy there doesn’t want to offend her by opening the door for her…SERIOUSLY!!!!!! Walks her back home
And I think she’s A siren, and from the looks of the decor….from Greece.
Is that practical make up fx ?? Cool!!! b+
Predictable monster c
Meter reader
A demonic plague. The trash men collect heads
The term meter reader . s not what you think. They go to houses afflicted and do exorcisms. They however are not priests.
5
Time out
Something with military then a funeral and a kid messing with a locked closet in which the cat went in😥😭 and didn’t get out. So what kind of cabinet can I call this? The vapor room? Oooh an eternity box?
Compared to his wife he looks like he’s aging faster.
the things in oak woods past
animated. Starts with the news and A piece on oakwood.
Sounded like the town vanished like the Roanoke settlement.
A librarian or school teacher trying to decifer the wrutings in tge journals found in a tiwn time capsule from 1621s but there’s one part she can’t figure out and it could mean history will repeat itself in their time.
Finding out too late that the ‘time capsule is not one but a cage for some scary demon like monsters I would have preferred to have been in decent cg form as animation could turns everything in to a Disney princess (animated = not scary even if its the biggest puss filled zit on dr.pimple popper.
6
Drug traffic
Michael roker guest stars
Starts with a politician (I thought they changed to commercial right after creds!!!hate when they do that)
Some girl that was on bus with them looks really sick
And one point of the trip…. so what happens when she doesn’t get her meds??? Turns into a zombie??? Goes Japanese horror movie? Nope and I DID NOT see that coming
But then….
Lol the mom ‘they take care of her “condition”‘
Don’t know what to call it, but that is no condition!!!!
Oh man what does that remind me of!!
A dead girl named sue
Black and white
So far I think something happened to someone’s kid. There’s A bunch of guys talking to the cops,
Has a night of living dead vibe is my first impression
Don’t know what happened how or by who or what yet
Opening credits look like Archie comics, style and later Riverdale is mentioned; so I’m guessing one of those writers (or the same one) worked on both, or I should say the same artist.
Suicide Squad’s Joel Kinnaman
was going to be called that (like when they made Thursday nights Throwback Thursdays). Honestly I swear I come up with an idea, I don’t even have to write it, it just happens! Not sure when or where I got the idea but I think at least while trying to watch Madmax once I wondered why they didn’t try using blood as gas. But I am stoked for watching this and I wonder if every Wednesday night they will have a ‘Grindhouse’ type feature to show this summer.
mad from powers he has yet to learn to control? How can one tell if we are in his reality or in his head? It’s not easy to watch, you need to give it your utmost attention to keep up. I usually put down my kindle to watch this being if you play games etc while watching it, you will likely need to re-watch it again. 
Multiscreen MoTVision 