Fresh
George Romero contributes the screenplay this time, basing it on some tastefully selected Stephen King morsels.
Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
Creepshow 2
When the curtain goes up, the terror begins.
1987 · 1h 32m · R
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Directed by
Michael Gornick
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Creepshow 2
Overview
Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.
Director and cast
- Michael Gornick Director
- Lois Chiles as Annie Lansing
- George Kennedy as Ray Spruce
- Dorothy Lamour as Martha Spruce
- Daniel Beer as Randy
- Jeremy Green as Laverne
- Page Hannah as Rachel
- Don Harvey as Andy Cavanaugh
- David Holbrook as Fatso Gribbens
- Stephen King as Truck Driver
- Holt McCallany as Sam Whitemoon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
29%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Tied together with some humdrum animated sequences, three vignettes on offer obviously were produced on the absolute cheap, and are deficient in imagination and scare quotient.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
The episodes are marginally interesting, but each is a little too long. And each could be fully explained in a one-sentence synopsis.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
Part of the problem is that King's short stories simply work better in print.
Richard Harrington, Washington Post
Rotten
Just as you can't judge a '50s comic book by its lurid cover, so you can't judge a cheapo, three-part film by its sources.
Time Out
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