Later that night, Billy prays to the patron saint of poor parenting payback, The Creep, and gets a huge smile on his face when he's visited upon by a floating corpse. His pop (played by Tom Atkins) has discovered one of Billy's horror rags and is throwing a fit. It's bulls***.)Ģ2 Images CREEPSHOW Creepshow's bookends feature a kid named Billy (played by King's son, Joe Hill) who's got a s***heel of an abusive dad. (Both films are available for digital download, and Creepshow is on Amazon Prime at the time of this writing.) Full spoilers follow! (Also please note that we're not dredging up Creepshow 3 from 2006. Criminally insane kids and their ferocious funny books. All you really need to know though, bare-bones, is that both Creepshow movies start with a maladjusted young boy desperately wanting to get his hands on a horror comic, and then that journey takes us through the anthology stories. It's worth mentioning too that the Tales From the Darkside brand would go on to have its own movie in 1990. The success of Creepshow not only brought about a sequel, in 1987, but also, before that, the Tales From the Darkside horror anthology TV series created by Romero. Our guide through the ghoulish and goofy gutters was a mostly-silent skeleton hobo known as The Creep.
Horror maestros George Romero, Stephen King, and makeup specialist Tom Savini brought this movie to life, with King himself even starring in one of the stories. It wasn't an adaptation of an actual old comic though it was simply meant to evoke that style.
The first Creepshow movie, in 1982, was meant to be a horror comic splashed up on the big screen. An adaptation of Tales from the Crypt featuring a bunch of famous stars, directors, and producers became one of HBO's first original scripted series in 1989. Tales from the Crypt, complete with the CryptKeeper host character, was a comic book. Firstly, what was Creepshow? How did it differ from other '80s-era scary story sagas like Tales From the Darkside and Tales From the Crypt? Well, to start with, all of these are based on the EC horror comics scene that rose up post-WW II and saw a huge boom in the '50s and '60s.
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