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Creepshow 2

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This second horror anthology presents more eerie tales based on Stephen King stories. One episode finds a cigar-store Native American statue coming to life to avenge the death of the shop owner (George Kennedy) and his wife (Dorothy Lamour). Another features a group of teens menaced by a blob-like creature. The final installment follows a wealthy and callous woman (Lois Chiles) who hits a hitchhiker with her car and decides to flee the scene, but the victim isn't inclined to remain dead.
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Not even the melding of Stephen King and George A. Romero's writing sensibilities can elevate this spineless anthology, which is too simple in its storytelling and too skimpy on the genuine scares.

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Pat Graham Chicago Reader George Romero contributes the screenplay this time, basing it on some tastefully selected Stephen King morsels. Jul 12, 2010 Full Review Variety Staff Variety Tied together with some humdrum animated sequences, three vignettes on offer obviously were produced on the absolute cheap, and are deficient in imagination and scare quotient. Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Time Out Just as you can't judge a '50s comic book by its lurid cover, so you can't judge a cheapo, three-part film by its sources. Jun 24, 2006 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Creepshow 2 concludes on a seriously (and woefully) anticlimactic note. Rated: 2/4 Mar 12, 2021 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Creepshow 2 is certainly not as noteworthy or well-made as its predecessor. However, for a genre anthology featuring cohesive and subversive motifs... it's surely a gruesome little guilty pleasure. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 15, 2020 Full Review Richard Freedman Newhouse News Service One of the many repulsive things about the film is the simple-minded moralizing that blights all three tales. Rated: 0/4 Nov 5, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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This Old G Certainly not anywhere near as good as a first movie. It's worth a watch for the second segment Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/09/24 Full Review Nolan L Great stories bad execution Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/19/24 Full Review Howard H Short story telling at its finest...three stories that are captivating and diverse enough to warrant screentime... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/25/23 Full Review Mike R Letdown after the first, deserved a better script but completely awful Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 12/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Very solid. Tells 3 creepy tales Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/20/23 Full Review Matthew D Three more creepy horror stories from Stephen King and George Romero! Director Michael Gornick's horror comedy anthology Creepshow 2 (1987) is nearly as awesome and entertaining as George Romero's Creepshow (1982). I can easily see myself rewatching both Creepshow movies around Halloween for spooky thrills. Gornick gets how to let a horrific scene play out and set up for freaky and entertaining kills. Author Stephen King and screenwriter George A. Romero returns from the first Creepshow for three more gnarly tales of terror. I had a laugh at the dark humor and really enjoyed the wooden statue avenging the elderly, a mysterious purple blob consuming rotten teenagers, and a hit and run perpetrator getting haunted. I like King's political messaging behind each narrative. He always has many layers to his horror stories. Casting director Leonard Finger found pretty great actors for all these bit parts. In the opening animation, we're introduced to the eager Creepshow comic fan Billy, portrayed by an excitable Domenick John. Tom Savini's ugly host The Creep is very playful with Joe Silver's eerie voice for The Creep is great. The bully voices are so funny. For the first main story, Old Chief Wood'nhead, I have to give it to George Kennedy for a solid depiction of an elderly Southern shopkeeper named Ray Spruce. I like how he's respectful to indigenous people and their native culture. Dorothy Lamour is good as his reluctant wife Martha Spruce, subtly portraying American bigotry and trust. Frank Salsedo is so nice as the honorable Ben Whitemoon. Holt McCallany is annoying and frightening as the Hollywood obsessed Sam Whitemoon in redface, unfortunately. David Holbrook is funny as the disgusting fat sugar fiend Fatso Gribbens. Don Harvey is good as the nervous Andy Cavanaugh with his wicked Firebird car. Dan Kamin is awesome as Old Chief Wood'nhead with his bow, tomahawk, and scalping knife. Stephen King demonstrates America's old racism and prejudice against native people as well as native pride and honor by the uncle's oath. The Raft's cast of scumbag teenagers are excellent. The Raft is definitely my favorite and the simplest story. King shows show these sex crazed guys are both garbage and the girls foolishly touch or allow themselves to get too close to the blob. Paul Satterfield's idiot jock Deke is a total sleaze. Jeremy Green's Laverne is also useless at formulating a plan and sadly gets assaulted by Randy. Daniel Beer is excellent as the disgusting creep Randy. You think Randy will be the smart, science student who saves them, but King makes him a creep too as well as arrogant in thinking he got away. Page Hannah is pretty and sympathetic as Rachel and foolishly tries to touch the blob. Her scream, "It hurts!" is the most haunting part of Creepshow 2. The Hitchhiker features crazy car stunts with Tom Wright's hilarious declarations of "Thanks for the ride, lady!" all the way through. Lois Chiles' cheating wife Annie Lansing, who pulls a hit-and-run is a chillingly realistic villain. She cheats on her husband, runs a man over, doesn't stop to help, is only concerned for the price of her car, and despises the black man that she killed. David Beecroft's gigolo charging per orgasm as Annie's Lover is such a funny opener. Richard Parks is great as Annie's husband George Lansing, who reports the crime. Stephen King is hysterical as the concerned, yet nonchalant truck driver. Editor Peter Weatherley's steadfast cuts keep these stories moving along quickly. I like how he does not cut away from the scariest shots, so the viewer has no choice but to gaze on in horror. Creepshow 2 is a cool 92 minutes long, so it never overstays its welcome. Cinematographers Tom Hurwitz and Richard Hart opt for bright daylit wide shots and crawling camera pans for Creepshow 2. Production designer Bruce Alan Miller makes a small Western shop, a proud warrior statue of a native chief, a lonesome wooden raft, to a living blob creature. Special effects wizards Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger make a wooden statue move, a purple blob melt away flesh like it's made of black acid, and create a quirky zombie for Creepshow 2's vicious kills. Composers Les Reed and Rick Wakeman recorded all these eerie synth lines and exciting keyboard parts for Creepshow 2's delightful film score. I love hearing 80's synths in horror films. It's almost as cool as John Harrison's iconic Creepshow 80's synth score. Costume designer Eileen Sieff Stroup makes dozens of outfits for all sorts of classes of people. I like how clearly late 80's they all look. Makeup artists Ed French, Tom Savini, Gregory Nicotero, Everett Burrell, Howard Berger, Mike Trcic, and Joanna Robinson do everything from cute blush to faces melting down to the skull. In short, Creepshow 2 is a real blast and sure to be a Halloween treat for horror fans. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis This second horror anthology presents more eerie tales based on Stephen King stories. One episode finds a cigar-store Native American statue coming to life to avenge the death of the shop owner (George Kennedy) and his wife (Dorothy Lamour). Another features a group of teens menaced by a blob-like creature. The final installment follows a wealthy and callous woman (Lois Chiles) who hits a hitchhiker with her car and decides to flee the scene, but the victim isn't inclined to remain dead.
Director
Michael Gornick
Production Co
Laurel, New World
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$12.3M
Runtime
1h 29m
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