CREEPSHOW (DVD/ST&WS/INTERACTIVE/SCENE ACCESS/TRAILER) DVD

Creepshow
Two of the most venerable names in the horror field, author Stephen King and director George A. Romero, present this anthology of original twisted tales inspired by the E.C. horror comics of the 50's and 60's (themselves a more direct basis for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series). The five stories are framed within the pages of a comic book which a boy's insensitive father has thrown in the garbage. The first tale, "Father's Day," features a zombie patriarch returning to claim his Father's Day cake; "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" stars King himself as a slack-jawed yokel whose discovery of a radioactive meteorite turns him into a walking weed; "Something to Tide You Over" presents a deadly-serious Leslie Nielsen as a cuckolded husband who plans an elaborate seaside revenge; "The Crate" unleashes its ferocious man-eating contents on the enemies of a meek college professor; and "They're Creeping Up On You" pits obsessively-clean billionaire E.G. Marshall against a swarm of cockroaches in his sterile penthouse. The chapters are uniformly creative, filmed in garish comic-book colors, and Tom Savini's makeup effects are quite memorable (particularly the monster from "The Crate"), though the campy treatment does become exhausting after two hours' runtime. The final segment is the most impressive, thanks to Marshall's over-the-top performance, though the planned scope of the cockroach invasion was drastically reduced (no doubt due to budget constraints). ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

Cast Hal Holbrook as Henry Northrup Adrienne Barbeau as Wilma Northrup Fritz Weaver as Dexter Stanley Leslie Nielsen as Richard Vickers Carrie Nye as Sylvia Grantham E.G. Marshall as Upson Pratt Viveca Lindfors as Aunt Bedelia Stephen King as Jordy Verrill Ed Harris as Hank Ted Danson as Harry Robert Harper as Charlie Jon Lormer as Nathan Grantham Tom Atkins as Billy's Father (uncredited)

Crew David E. Vogel - Associate Producer Barbara Anderson - Costume Designer George A. Romero - Director Paul Hirsch - Editor Pasquale A. Buba - Editor George A. Romero - Editor Michael Spolan - Editor John Harrison - Composer (Music Score) Tom Savini - Makeup Special Effects Cletus Anderson - Production Designer Michael Gornick - Cinematographer Richard P. Rubinstein - Producer Stephen King - Screenwriter

Creepshow
This is a very entertaining tribute to the EC horror comics of the 1950s from the director of Night of the Living Dead. The five stories, written by Stephen King, are bookended with some nice comic-book art by Bernie Wrightson and a cute framing story involving a boy whose father objects to his "Creepshow" magazines. The stories themselves feature an all-star cast and great special effects by makeup wizard Tom Savini. "Father's Day" and "Something to Tide You Over" deal with vengeful zombies, "The Lonely Death of Jordy Verrill" is a Blob-derived tale with King taken over by an alien plant; "The Crate" has a henpecked professor feeding his shrewish wife to a toothsome monster; and "They're Creeping Up on You" features a finicky landlord plagued by cockroaches. "The Crate" is probably the best of the lot, but the last story is the most memorable. There's nothing more disgusting than thousands of squirming cockroaches, and the final shot is one of the horror cinema's classic gross-outs. Witty, grotesque, and visually engaging, Creepshow is a treat. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: DDS: Dolby Digital Surround Additional Features: Interactive menus Theatrical trailer Scene access Subtitles: English & Français DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 2 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 120 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- Fullscreen 0. Scene Selection 1. Prologue: Why God made fathers [2:21] 2. Illustrated Credits [1:47] 3. Father's Day: about Aunt Bedelia [4:06] 4. Instead of cake [3:43] 5. Back for his slice [1:54] 6. Goings-on in the graveyard [3:41] 7. Something's in the kitchen with Sylvia [1:43] 8. "I got my cake" [1:42] 9. The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill [1:12] 10. How much for the meteor? [2:48] 11. Something's growing [6:01] 12. To bathe or not to [2:36] 13. A green outlook [1:29] 14. Something to Tide You Over; no exceptions [3:17] 15. No comfort at Comfort Point [4:03] 16. High tide for Harry and Becky [5:47] 17. "I'm gonna get you, Richard" [2:51] 18. Richard's not alone [5:16] 19. Showtime for Richard [3:32] 20. The Crate; under the stairs [:49] 21. The faculty reception [4:01] 22. Henry takes aim [1:15] 23. Mike's no longer handy [7:33] 24. "Pretty far out, Professor Stanley" [3:07] 25. Charlie investigates the bite marks [2:26] 26. Henry gets ideas [5:04] 27. An invitation to Wilma [4:23] 28. An entirely new experience [3:17] 29. "Just tell it to call you Billy" [2:53] 30. Evidence disposal [1:21] 31. What if it gets out? [2:16] 32. They're Creeping Up on You [1:06] 33. "Heads are going to roll" [1:51] 34. "I loathe bugs" [1:58] 35. A window's best wishes [2:15] 36. "You like your job, Reynolds?" [2:34] 37. Dealing with pests through the peephole [1:34] 38. Lights out- and bugs out [4:00] 39. Bugs got his tongue [1:14] 40. Needling Dad [2:17] 41. End Credits [2:51] 0. Scene Selection 1. Prologue: Why God made fathers [2:21] 2. Illustrated Credits [1:47] 3. Father's Day: about Aunt Bedelia [4:06] 4. Instead of cake [3:43] 5. Back for his slice [1:54] 6. Goings- on in the graveyard [3:41] 7. Something's in the kitchen with Sylvia [1:43] 8. "I got my cake" [1:42] 9. The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill [1:12] 10. How much for the meteor? [2:48] 11. Something's growing [6:01] 12. To bathe or not to [2:36] 13. A green outlook [1:29] 14. Something to Tide You Over; no exceptions [3:17] 15. No comfort at Comfort Point [4:03] 16. High tide for Harry and Becky [5:47] 17. "I'm gonna get you, Richard" [2:51] 18. Richard's not alone [5:16] 19. Showtime for Richard [3:32] 20. The Crate; under the stairs [:49] 21. The faculty reception [4:01] 22. Henry takes aim [1:15] 23. Mike's no longer handy [7:33] 24. "Pretty far out, Professor Stanley" [3:07] 25. Charlie investigates the bite marks [2:26] 26. Henry gets ideas [5:04] 27. An invitation to Wilma [4:23] 28. An entirely new experience [3:17] 29. "Just tell it to call you Billy" [2:53] 30. Evidence disposal [1:21] 31. What if it gets out? [2:16] 32. They're Creeping Up on You [1:06] 33. "Heads are going to roll" [1:51] 34. "I loathe bugs" [1:58] 35. A widow's best wishes [2:15] 36. "You like your job, Reynolds?" [2:34] 37. Dealing with pests through the peephole [1:34] 38. Lights out- and bugs out [4:00] 39. Bugs got his tongue [1:14] 40. Needling Dad [2:17] 41. End Credits [2:51]