The first story in Stephen King’s Creepshow is the delightfully over-the-top “Father’s Day,” in which a family of rich jerks await the arrival of the possibly patricidal matriarch of the family, only for the father she bludgeoned to death on Father’s Day to come to life and horribly murder them all while demanding cake. Way earlier than the thought to visually construct Hulk as a comic book was a glimmer in Ang Lee’s eye, the three got together, recruited horror cinematographer Michael Gornick and an amazing cast of actors, and made a truly unique movie. Romero, the filmmaker behind the greatest zombie movie of all time, and the animated sequences were by Jack Kamen, one of the primary artists of the glory days of EC Comics. The most famous of those comics, Tales from the Crypt was eventually turned into a famous HBO series and a little-known film, Creepshow is Stephen King’s love letter to the gruesome, often morally-tinged genre as a whole.įortunately for the film neophyte, Stephen King was not alone in his affection for the horror comics of his youth. It makes a lot of sense when you realize that the film is an elaborate homage to the EC Comics of the 1950s, which heavily published grisly comics until moral panic and pandering pushed the industry into the superhero genre.
The humor may be nasty and gory and pretty cheesy, but no one can deny that it does not hit as hard as the deaths.Ĭreepshow is essentially five Stephen King short stories (two of which he adapted from existing stories, three written for the film), bookended by live-action sequences, and separated by animated transitions showing glimpses of old-fashioned advertisements for X-Ray glasses and “genuine” voodoo dolls. However, Creepshow holds a unique place in the works of Stephen King not only is it the first screenplay he ever wrote and a lengthy and loving tribute to the horror comics he consumed as a child, but it is actually pretty hilariously funny. This is somewhat unfair while Stephen King is undeniably the modern master of horror, he also has written in many other genres throughout his career and can be extremely, darkly, acidly funny when he wants to be.Īll of this is to say that the best and most representative of all of Stephen King’s films is also his funniest: the anthology film Creepshow, which was released in 1982 to moderate box office returns and mixed reviews. He has had immense success with his novels, short stories, screenplays, films, television shows, and pretty much anything else you can think of, as long as it’s horror. Stephen King is one of the most successful authors to have ever lived, barring no format.
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