Creepshow
Directed by George A. Romero
- horror
- comedy
The story
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
What it’s like
Saturated primary colors and comic-book inks give Creepshow the look of a 1950s horror comic brought to life: hard-edged shadows, lurid greens and reds, and deliberately stagey sets that feel like pages turning. Its five segments are bridged by animated interludes and a bold, pulpy wraparound, with a jaunty, exaggerated score that pushes the mood toward campy fun. The pacing is brisk and anthology-style, each story snapping shut on a punchline, so it works best as a Halloween night watch or a lively group screening rather than something slow to sit with. The gore is frequent and cartoonishly splashy, with zombies, buried-alive panic, a meteor-mutated lawn, and a cockroach swarm, but it reads as playful rather than bleak. Violence is plentiful and graphic, though the tone is more gleeful than disturbing, and there is little sexual content. Its people are broadly drawn archetypes: a grieving son, a spiteful husband, a fussy millionaire, a bored child, all getting their comeuppance. It suits fans of old EC comics, B-movie gore, and anyone who wants horror with a wink and a grin.
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