Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
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- TriviaAn alternate ending (scripted but then rewritten) for "Something to Tide You Over" found two policemen dropping by to investigate Richard's panicky-but-true claims of Harry and Becky invading his beach-house. When the policemen (predictably) laugh at his story - thinking he's drunk - Richard attempts to prove this by showing them camera footage of both undead stalkers. Instead, the television plays his incriminating conversation with Harry before and during the latter's burial-by-the-sea.
Richard protests that he's been set up, that this is the wrong tape. "Oh, it's the right tape all right, pal!" the police answer. "And speaking of rights...!"
The film smash-cuts from there to Richard's murder trial; he is convicted and sentenced to death row. Another smash-cut finds Richard in the gas chamber, laughing hysterically even while his life is choked out of him: "I can hold my breath for a long, long time...!"
- GoofsBefore he is slapped in the Prologue segment, Billy already has red slap marks painted on his face.
- Quotes
Jordy Verrill: Meteor shit!
- Crazy creditsDuring the end of the credits, we hear "the old creep" laugh
- Alternate versionsVersion aired on Spanish-speaking channel Telemundo is dubbed, edited for content, runs 1 hour and 30 minutes (with commercials) and only shows stories "Something To Tide You Over" and "The Crate". The end credits for all five segments are intact.
- ConnectionsEdited into Cent une tueries de zombies (2012)
- SoundtracksA Star Is Born
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by Max Steiner
[segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill"]
Featured review
George A.Romero("Dawn of the Dead","Day of the Dead","Martin")after huge success with "Dawn of the Dead" directed his another masterpiece-an anthology of five short stories called "Creepshow".The script was written by Stephen King,and the special effects were made by F/X wizard Tom Savini("Martin","Maniac","The Prowler").The first story "Father's Day" is so-so-nothing special,but the zombie looks terrific;the second story "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verril" is the funniest,Stephen King steals the show as a Jordy,a goofy farmer,who finds a strange meteor;the third story "Something To Tide You Over" is my favourite-it's ghastly,creepy,funny and a little bit disturbing,again great make-up of the drowned zombies;the fourth story "The Crate" is the longest and goriest-there's a lot of suspense and plenty of gore mixed with black humour.Finally we are getting to the last story "Creeping Up On You"-an enjoyable story about cockroaches with some rather gross special effects.Overall I must say that I love "Creepshow"-surely they don't make them like this anymore.This is a REAL horror,not a teen-oriented garbage like "Scream" or "Urban Legend".Check it out.
- HumanoidOfFlesh
- Dec 16, 2001
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Cuentos de ultratumba
- Filming locations
- Island Beach State Park, Berkeley Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, USA(beach in "Something to Tide You Over")
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,028,755
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,870,889
- Nov 14, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $21,029,383
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1(original ratio/open matte)
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