Trivia: The mousy brunette at the party in "The Crate" is George Romero's Ex-Wife "Christine Forrest". Her character is named "Tabitha" after Stephen King's Wife...
You two are constantly hilarious, everything from arguing about….sand in the gears shall we say, to discussing old wood and if a 150 year old…whateveritis is related to a Sasquatch or not. Oddly enough they named it “Fluffy” on set. 😁 Also it’s a common thought (at least among my little group of friends) that zombie Nathan did kill the last two people, just off screen after the segment ended.
So nostalgic. I remember as a kid, we bought our first family VCR back in 1983 and Creepshow was among the first VHS tapes we rented for the weekend, along with the movie West World. What a thrill it was back then.
Stephen King’s acting is perfect for that Looney Tunes style character, for sure. And his segment is my favorite because of it. When it comes to Creepshow, the stories are based on the old Horror Comics from the mid-20th century, (prior to the comics code.) That style can be more silly and just a short burst of story, not the most cohesive but just fun. Other anthologies like Asylum (1972) & V/H/S (2012) have more connective tissue via the wrap around story. Anthologies are great-short and full of variety-but, they don’t usually do well at the box office.
I think that Hal Holbrook pulling out his gun and shooting Billie was a tribute to a cop he played in Clint Eastwood's 2nd Dirty Harry film Magnum Force.
Yes!!! I've been waiting weeks to watch some Grave and Roommate react. (All your vids are great, but I can't watch the ones with movies I haven't seen cause, ya know, spoilers). This was just what I needed today. Thank you kindly, my dudes!
THANK YOU 1. The little boy playing Billy is Owen King, Stephen's son. 2. There IS a CREEPSHOW II also by King. Same format but different stories. Great cast again. 3. King does cameos in many of his movies. This is my favorite performance by him. 4. Tom Atkins/Billy's dad played Rehme in "Escape from New York". Adrienne Barbeau 😇(the crate) also plays in it. 5. My favorite story is "The Crate".
This was the movie I rented the night my parents got their first VCR, it was my favorite horror film for years. Back then I thought that Mr. Pratt's high-tech apartment in the last story was typical of everyone's homes because the story was set in the future.
In an interview, Ted Dansen talked about how he was worried about his daughter getting scared by his zombie makeup while she was visiting on set. When she saw him, she just said, 'Hi, Dad,' and moved on.
Couple other tidbits. Paul Hirsch edited ‘The Crate’ episode. He also edited original ‘Carrie’ and ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ And the soundtrack is unique- combination of library music from Capitol Music library and original music by the film’s assistant director John Harrison (using Prophet V synth & grand piano)
Leslie Nielsen even during his serious roles was always into comedy. He always traveled with a portable fart machine he was also a prankster on set. People never knew when the sound of a fart would happen with him around. This was before he got the role in Airplane even in death he insisted on one last joke on his gravestone it says Let er Rip on it.
This is a great film & I hope you watch the second one as well. The boy at the beginning & end of the film is Joe Hill, Stephen King's son & he's the author of The Black Phone, Locke & Key & Horns.
It's not too hard to read between the lines in "The Crate." The monster represents the repressed anger of Dexter, co-opted by Henry; Dex (already a sketchy perv and...potential serial killer?) wants to kill anyone who bothers him, and of course Henry wants to kill Wilma. The thing in the crate is a nonsensical boogeyman on which to psychologically hang the murders they themselves commit, and their little chess game discussion is two good buddies extorting each other's silence. But once they've had a taste, their murder-genie can never be kept in its bottle. Cockroaches? _Pfft._ Bedbugs are worse. They're quick like roaches but bite and suck blood like ticks. Then they run off and crap in furniture and between the pages of books and any other tight crevice that suits them. And once they've had blood, they can start laying eggs. But the roaches are also a representation, this time Upson Pratt's ugliness eating himself alive from the inside.
The dad in the bumper scenes was played by Tom Atkins. He was a mainstay throughout the '80's. Another of his films was THE FOG, directed by John Carpenter. Check it out. Avoid the remake - it's sh#t.
