{"id":1393,"date":"2024-07-28T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:32:12","slug":"creepshow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/07\/28\/creepshow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepshow 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Creepshow 2 <\/strong>(1987)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New World\/Horror-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 89 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence and gore, language, brief nudity, sexual content, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Gornick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: George A. Romero (stories by Stephen King)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Les Reed and Rick Wakeman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Richard Hart and Tom Hurwitz\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 1, 1987 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Salsedo, Holt McCallany, David Holbrook, Don Harvey, Dan Kamin, Paul Satterfield, Jeremy Green, Daniel Beer, Page Hannah, Lois Chiles, David Beecroft, Tom Wright, Richard Parks, Domenick John.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $14M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I didn\u2019t like Creepshow 2<\/strong> when it first came out. I loved the first movie so much; I couldn\u2019t wait to see what was in store next. I went to see it opening day (5pm show, City Line Theater) hoping for some of the same magic. Even though he didn\u2019t direct this time, George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) was still involved as was author Stephen King. One of the stories (\u201cThe Raft\u201d) comes from his 1985 short story collection Skeleton Crew. However, once I saw that it was being released by New World Pictures, all hopes vanished. Creepshow 2<\/strong> is a low-budget job all the way. There are three stories instead of five, strung together by cheaply-made animated segments about a small boy being terrorized by neighborhood bullies. I left the theater feeling let down and a little bit angry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019ve since developed something of an affection for Creepshow 2<\/strong>. It\u2019s not in the same league as the original. Hell, it\u2019s not even in the same ballpark. It barely skirts the edges. It\u2019s not the least bit scary and is only mildly amusing at best. It\u2019s a bad movie alright, but it\u2019s strangely appealing too. Its appeal lies in its badness. It makes the movie kind of fun.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The movies opens with \u201cThe Creep\u201d (played by makeup maestro Tom Savini) delivering the latest issue of Creepshow to a newsstand where young Billy (John) eagerly waits to tear into it. This small section is live-action. It switches over to animation for the remainder of this wraparound story.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the first (and best) tale \u201cOld Chief Wood\u2019nhead\u201d, a wooden Indian comes to life to avenge the murders of an elderly shopkeeper (Kennedy, The Delta Force) and his wife (Lamour, the \u201cRoad to\u2026\u201d movies) by a trio of dirtbags. The next one \u201cThe Raft\u201d tells the story of four teens trapped on a raft in the middle of a secluded lake by a flesh-consuming black blob. The final tale of terror \u201cThe Hitchhiker\u201d deals with a wealthy adulteress (Chiles, Moonraker) being terrorized by a hitchhiker (Wright, Marked for Death) she hit with her car and left for dead by the side of the road. He keeps appearing to her while she races to get home before her husband does.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cOld Chief Wood\u2019nhead\u201d has a couple of decent gory moments. One creep gets shot by arrows, another dies by tomahawk. It\u2019s not shown (bummer!) but the Indian scalps the lead scumbag. It\u2019s nice seeing a couple of screen vets at work even if the movie is garbage. It\u2019s kind of sad that Creepshow 2<\/strong> is Lamour\u2019s final role, but it\u2019s cool that it puts her in the same boat as Veronica Lake and Joan Crawford whose final screen appearances were Flesh Feast and Trog respectively. \u201cThe Raft\u201d is pretty lame. The monster looks like a really big Hefty bag with gobs of black goo on it. The only notable actor in this segment is Page Hannah (Daryl\u2019s little sis) and she can\u2019t act at all. Then again, neither can the other three young actors. \u201cThe Hitchhiker\u201d is okay. It\u2019s fairly predictable right down to the punchline. King cameos as a truck driver at the scene of the hit-and-run.<\/p>\n

\u00a0While Creepshow 2<\/strong> is sort-of, somewhat enjoyable, it\u2019s not as much fun as the first movie. It\u2019s an uneasy mix of horror and comedy. In fact, it leans more towards the former than the latter. It\u2019s directed by Michael Gornick, the original movie\u2019s cinematographer. It\u2019s his first (and only) feature film. Prior to this, he directed a few episodes of the Tales from the Darkside TV series. He doesn\u2019t have the deft sense of balance of his predecessor. The pacing is also off. The animation is chintzy as are some of the makeup effects. \u201cThe Creep\u201d is clearly a guy wearing a Halloween mask. The acting is mostly bad. The stories aren\u2019t as cool as the ones in the 1982 flick. At least it retains the feel of an EC horror comic book from the 50s. I like how it works in those Venus flytrap plants kids would send away for.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Like I said, Creepshow 2<\/strong> is a bad movie but not a detestable one. There\u2019s some fun to be had from it. 30 years has passed since it first came out and it looks much better in hindsight. Me, I love 80s horror and I love New World so of course I\u2019m going to give it a favorable review even though it doesn\u2019t really deserve it. It\u2019s more watchable than a majority of the watered-down PG-13 horror movies that get released these days. Just be sure to set your expectations low. I\u2019m talking very, VERY low. Like lower than the basement low. Do that and you might get a kick out of Creepshow 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Creepshow 2 (1987)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New World\/Horror-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 89 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence and gore, language, brief nudity, sexual content, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Gornick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: George A. Romero (stories by Stephen King)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Les Reed and Rick Wakeman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Richard Hart and Tom Hurwitz\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 1, 1987 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Frank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guilty-pleasures","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Creepshow-2-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}