Day 13: Creepshow
It's Friday the 13th in October, so I clearly had no other choice but to watch the movie Creepshow.
Written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero, when this movie was originally announced there must've been countless horror fans' heads exploding all over the country.
Overall, much like the large majority of Stephen King's work, this is fairly hit and miss.
The first half of the movie is a ton of fun, with the very opening being perfect Halloween imagery; pumpkin in the window, kid reading scary comics in the dark, parental disapproval, it's classic Halloween nostalgia.
The following three stories are great, with Father's Day, The Lonesome Death of Jody Verrill, and Something to Tide You Over. They're very tongue-in-cheek and silly, but wonderfully stylized and a perfect love letter to old horror comic books.
But the second half, starting with The Crate, is where the tone gets completely thrown off and it feels like an entirely different movie.
With the pace being significantly slower than the first half, it causes the movie to really drag and become less interesting. According to the internet, I am very much in the minority on this, with The Crate being most fans' favorite segment. To each their own, but for me it really doesn't fit in the movie and it's a confusing tonal mess, plus it's at least twice the length of the rest of the segments.
The last segment is pretty amusing, with the grotesque final image being both incredibly shocking and funny. Then the bookending segment is a lovely way to wrap it all up.
Again, just to me, if they had cut The Crate this would be a really tight, fun, silly 80's horror movie that would stand the test of time. As it is though, it still manages to do so, just with a little less punch.
Anyways, where's my cake?
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