CREEPSHOW - At area theaters.Their stars crossed paths again in 1984 as Stephen King’s short story “The Word Processor Of The Gods” was used as source material for an episode of the George Romero-produced series Tales From The Darkside, but conversations also continued about doing a sequel to Creepshow. He calls out: 'What's the matter, bug got your tongue?' Close-up of mouthful of roaches. When the exterminator arrives, there's no answer. Marshall stars as the autocratic old fussbudget who finds a bug in his blender and then, during a brown-out, is blanketed with the six-leggers.

And finally, the most talked-about story in this quintet: A fusty millionaire, with the habits of a Howard Hughes, is eaten by cockroaches. There's also the one about the couple who return from a watery grave to get the jealous husband (Leslie Nielsen) who drowned them. A meek professor (Hal Holbrook), given to Walter Mitty dreams of murdering his shrewish wife (Adrienne Barbeau), purges himself of conubialism. The janitor's devoured in short order, and closely followed by a graduate student. The next-best vignette stars a 148-year-old monkey, who's naturally starving when he's taken out of a crate found by a sweet old janitor. This year, decomposing dad (Jon Lormer) is not bereft of plans for celebrating the holiday. A family of spooked preppies takes tea while awaiting a visit from batty Aunt Bedelia (Viveca Lindfors), who murdered her father on Father's Day. Still, 'Creepshow' never goes for really high-tech special effects - nothing so visceral as 'The Thing.' Romero's monsters look more like used air-sick bags turned inside out. Ghouls will be ghouls, after all, and Romero, creator of the classic ''Night of the Living Dead,' does push a mean panic button. Most of the time 'Creepshow' works, though. King's rather funny, but he's not particularly scary.

He plays a hick farmer who's consumed by astral grass after touching a meteorite. The elder King, author of 'Carrie,' 'Night Shift'and 'Salem's Lot,' also acts in one episode: lawn doctors from space. Just coincidence? Rod Serling wouldn't think so. Presciently, Kamen's preliminary sketches showed a sinister little boy resembling King's son Joe, who ended up playing the part in the film. Romero and ghost-writer Stephen King.Ĭartoonist Jack Kamen's classy splash panels chain King's stories together and give 'Creepshow' that pulpy look. It's an unabashedly juvenile junk movie by fiendish director George A.

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