Creepshow
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.
Critics Sentiment
Ape-like creature emerges from crate and kills victims
Jordy Verrill discovers crashed meteorite on his farm
The film recovers dramatically from Stephen King's widely panned Jordy Verrill segment to Leslie Nielsen's acclaimed beach burial story.
Creepshow starts solidly with its framing device and first story, hits its lowest point during Stephen King's overacted meteor segment, then builds to consistent acclaim through the beach burial and crate monster stories. The anthology format allows individual segment quality to vary significantly, with critics consistently praising the practical effects work while noting the deliberate comic book campiness as either charming or grating depending on viewer taste.
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Hal Holbrook
Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")
Adrienne Barbeau
Wilma Northrup (segment "The Crate")
Fritz Weaver
Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
Leslie Nielsen
Richard Vickers (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
Carrie Nye
Sylvia Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
E.G. Marshall
Upson Pratt (segment "They're Creeping Up On You")
Viveca Lindfors
Aunt Bedelia (segment "Father's Day")
Ed Harris
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Ted Danson
Harry Wentworth (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
Stephen King
Jordy Verrill (segment "The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill")
Warner Shook
Richard Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
Gaylen Ross
Becky Vickers (segment "Something To Tide You Over")
Jon Lormer
Nathan Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
Bingo O'Malley
Jordy's Dad / Cameos
John Amplas
Nathan's Corpse (segment "Father's Day")
David Early
White (segment "They're Creeping Up On You")
Iva Jean Saraceni
Billy's Mother (segments "Prologue" / "Epilogue")
Christine Forrest
Tabitha Raymond (segment "The Crate")
Tom Savini
Garbage Man #2 (segment "Epilogue")
Tom Atkins
Stan (segments "Prologue" / "Epilogue") (uncredited)
Crew
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