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Release Date: 26 March, 2001 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Creepshow 2 Reviews
A worthy disk for an under-rated film.
Considering how this seems to be one of the lesser-appreciated films from the 1980s, I find it a pleasent surprise that they would go back and make a special-edition disk with some nice special features, a making-of mini-documentary and a filmmakers commentary, both of which I had a lot of fun watching and listening to. Other lesser-known films from the 1980s that got some really cool special feats on their DVD disks are: CAT'S EYE, CHOPPING MALL, CHEERLEADER CAMP, THE STUFF, DOLLS, ROCK & RULE, FIRE & ICE and TIME RIDER.
I do have a few disapointments with this movie, both of which have to do with the fact that they were working on a limited budget back when they made this movie. The first is, as most know, the fact that this film has only three tales, while the first had five. The other thing is that the first film had lots of comic book touches throughout, such as pages turning across the screen, narritive captions shown on screen, weird comic book lighting in the backrounds at certain climative parts, even scenes shown in seperate panels at certain moments. Well, this film has none of that, the stories are just shown in the same way you'd show a regular movie.
Still, the stories are great for what they are. I'd say they're as good as the ones shown in the first film, and I'm glad to own this disk. The stories are:
OLD CHEIF WOODENHEAD: Three young punks in a decrepit desert town rob and kill two elderly store owners, only to have their wooden cigar indean come to life and exact revenge. The fact that it's the wooden indean that avenges the couple and not the people themselves who come back from the dead, as would normally be the case in this type of story, earns this tale at least a few originality points.
THE RAFT: Based on an earlier Stephen King story found in the Skeleton Crew short story collection. Four college students spend a day on a raft in the middle of a remote lake, only to find themselves preyed upon by a black blob lurking in the water that likes human flesh and can slip through the cracks between the boards. In my opinion the best of the three.
THE HITCHHIKER: The story that is probably the most like the classic E.C. comic horror tales. A woman driving home late at night accidentally runs over a hitchhiker. Unfortunately for her, the guy comes back and wants revenge, and she can never seem to get away from him no matter how far she drives. It's like this one episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE turned pure horror as opposed to subtle suspense.
If you're a horror fan, check this one out.
Inept!
The horror anthology format was one which had been most successfully utilised by British cinema. From Ealing Studios atmospheric and brilliant DEAD OF NIGHT to the films of Amicus in the 1960's and 70's. The form was rejuvenated in the USA, when George A Romero finally gave in to Hollywood and collaborated with Stephen King on CREEPSHOW. CREEPSHOW worked because it was an unabashed and unashamed tribute to the EC horror comics of the 1950's. The Visual qualities of the film, coupled with its trite speech bubble dialogue and thin characterisation gave it a comic book feel that perhaps only SIN CITY has since replicated to any degree of success.
This sequel is odious, pointless and a simple money spinner. The strength of Amicus' anthologies was usually the narrative framing device and the attempted twist to the tale. This is severely lacking in CREEPSHOW 2, which has a rather dour and crudely animated sequence involving a boy besting his bully tormentors. The stories themselves are dull and uninspired, the only exception being the great ending to THE RAFT segment. Of the three tales of supposed terror, THE HITCHIKER works the best, simply because it is so utterly daft, that it becomes amusing. Some notable actors wasted their time on this film and director Michael Gornick (most noted for his work on other Romero productions such as DAWN OF THE DEAD) fashions a TV movie style feature, which is both boring and inept. Both Stephen King and George A Romero who just a decade before had rewritten the genre and terrified audiences, put their names to a movie that would give relief to insomniacs the world over.
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