DVD SinBin: CREEPSHOW 2 August 10, 2008
Posted by ghostof82 in : Film General , trackbackThe original CREEPSHOW, back from that golden year 1982, is a fine horror anthology- the stories are short, varied and effective, the casting universally good, the music sublime. The film works very well, and has quite a unique charm that in many ways has been unequalled in the many years since. Indeed, as horror films of late get mired in torture-porn and gore, it seems increasingly unlikely that we will see it’s like again.
I had never seen the 1987 sequel until a few nights ago. To put it bluntly, CREEPSHOW 2 is terribly inferior to the original. It only has three tales, compared to the originals five, and only one of them -The Raft- actually really works. The third story, The Hitchhiker, just seems to go on and on and on, until its one gag wears so thin you just want it all to end. Perhaps if they had tightened up the three tales and added two others to maintain the same number as the original, the film as a whole would have been much better, but it is evident that the film had a very limited budget and little ambition. It almost screams video cash-in, even though I believe it was a cinema release.
Infact the most curious thing about the film is that one of the actresses from The Raft segment goes by the unusual (for a woman, anyway) name of Jeremey Green. A look at IMDB claims she only ever made two films and appeared in one tv episode of a tv show I never heard of. Must confess I’m curious as to how she found herself in the acting profession and why she apparently turned her back on it. Or why the industry turned its back on her. I guess there are thousands of actors and actresses who had short careers like that. Hollywood can be a nasty business, not everyone can be the next Brad Pitt or Julia Roberts; some win, some lose. Just how lives turn out I suppose. Well, there you go, the most fascinating factoid regards CREEPSHOW 2- the short acting career of an actress with an unusual name; the film was that bad.
One to avoid folks. To think they also made a CREEPSHOW 3, which by accounts is even worse… thats frightening.
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I actually bought the original and the sequel, recently.
My rose tinted glasses were smashed after seeing “Creepshow”. I found it extremely boring for the most part, with little, or nothing much happening. Why does someone who approaches a horror film wish to sit through a 10 minute dinner sequence party for example?
I actually enjoyed the second one slightly more, if only for “The Raft” segment.
I actually bought the original and the sequel, recently.
My rose tinted glasses were smashed after seeing “Creepshow”. I found it extremely boring for the most part, with little, or nothing much happening. Why does someone who approaches a horror film wish to sit through a 10 minute dinner party sequence, for example?
I actually enjoyed the second one slightly more, if only for “The Raft” segment.
I think this is an okay film. The raft is definately the best story but the other two were good fun IMO. The Hitchhiker is enjoyably nasty if a tad drawn out as you say.