 
A child named Billy (Joe King) collects
Creepshow comic books but his father
disapproves of them and throws them away.
The
comic opens up by a gust of wind as the
first chapter in the comic is titled Father's
Day of a family who
plans to murder their father for driving
them insane of him demnding his Father's
Day cake of a demented
old man returning from the grave to get
the father's day cake his murdering
daughter never gave him as he
persistently says "I want my cake!!!
Where's my cake???" as when he was
alive was always harrassing them about it
which drove one of his duaghter's to kill
him and to have all his money but once he
returned from the grave he kills his
family for taking advantage of his money.
The second is
called The Lonesome
Death of Jordy Verrill
about a flakey farmer named Jordy
(Stephen King) that discovers a meteor
turning everything into plant life.
The third
chapter is called Something
to Tide You Over which
is a vengeful husband named Richard
Vickers (Leslie Nielsen) who buries his
wife Becky and her lover Harry Wentworth
(Ted Danson) up to their necks on the
beach while the tide is coming in causing
them to drown while Richard has a camera
filming them while it happens.
However Harry and Becky return from the
dead to kidnap Richard and bury him to
his neck at the beach.
The fourth
chapter is called The
Crate of a creature
that resides in a crate under the steps
of a college and one of the people that
works there named Henry Northup (Hal
Holbrook) wants to trap his harrassing
wife Wilma (Adrienne Barbeau) in the
college so the creature will eat her and
can be out of Hanery's life for good.
The fifth and
final chapter is called They're
Creeping Up On You of
an ultra rich businessman named Upson
Pratt (E.G. Marshall) who gets his
comeuppance from cockroaches which is a
good chapter of somone's imagination of
being afraid of cockroaches.
This was very much in the tradition of Tales
from the Crypt with the comic
book and it was very influential to
future horror anthlogies like Deadtime
Stories and Nightmares.
I enjoyed the Father's Day
chapter alot as well as The Crate
the most.
The monster in The Crate
was truly scary and effective as well as
the living corpse in Father's Day.
The acting is very
good as we have many well known faces.
Stephen King also proves himself
worthy as an actor than a writer as he
played a dweeby farmer which is the lead
role in his chapter The Lonesome
Death of Jordy Verrill.
We also have a disturbing performance by Ted
Danson in Something to Tide
You Over as he is buried in sand
up to his head while the tide is coming
in and drowning him.
Leslie Neilson does well as a
vengeful man who manipulates him to be
buried in the sand.
Also a great performance by scream queen Adrienne
Barbeau in The Crate
as she gets what's coming to her in the
end for harrassing her husband.
Nothing extremely
gory but a twisted off head
Stephen King's character turning
into a plant
Gruesome zombie couple
Bloody gunshot to the head
Lots of blood on the floor by the
creature in The Crate
There is a real gruesome scene
at the end of They're Creeping Up
On You as a bunch of cockroaches
burst out of a dead man's body.
The directing by George
A. Romero is great since he usually
has done a great job in his other horror
films.
He was great at directing Jon Lormer
in Father's Day being
annoying and driving his family insane as
well as him demanding his cake.
We get a great camera shot on a corpse
rising from the grave as well.
He also was good with Ted Danson and
supporting actress Gaylen Ross
seeing their death with the tide coming
in for the chapter Something to
Tide You Over which does look
truly disturbing knowing that they are
going to drown.
A nice shot on them returning from the
dead with a doorway open approaching Leslie
Nielsen.
Romero really knew how to make The
Crate so monstrous showing the
beast attacking from it's corner.
He directed Adrienne Barbeau perfectly
when she nags all the time and has
perfect comedic timing during a
hallucination sequence with Hal
Holbrook losing his mind and shoots
her showing good camera shots on the
extra's clapping.
He was great with the actors reactions
when the beast attacks them in especially
with Holbrook madly calling for
the beast to attack Barbeau's
character.
Good shots on cockroaches invading a room
in the chapter They're Creeping
Up On You for anyone who has
fear of insects.
There is cheesy but neat
creepy synthesizer music composed by Michelle
Dibucci and by John Harrison.
There is also a songtrack
titled "Gaudeamus
Igitur" performed by Franz Liszt
Nathan
Grantham: I want my cake! Bedelia!
Where's my Father's Day cake?
[enters
a darkened kitchen]
Richard Grantham: Are we
conserving energy?
Jordy
Verrill: Meteor shit!
Jordy:
That's a meteor. I'd be dipped in shit if
that ain't a meteor!
Doctor:
This is going to be extremely painful,
Mr. Verrill!
Jordy:
Oh, Jordy Verrill, you lunkhead!
Richard
Vickers: Come on Harry, the maiden
fair waits for her knight in shining
corduroy.
Richard
Vickers: [after swatting away a
crab near Harry's head] Found a
friend, Harry? I'm just wild about Harry,
and Harry's wild about me!
Richard
Vickers: I'll shoot you dead!
Harry: You can't shoot us dead,
Richard...
Becky: ...Because we're already
dead!
Harry: We dug a hole for you...
Becky: ...On the beach!
Harry:
II'm gonna get you Richard. You hear me?
I'm gonna get you!
[a wave washes over his head]
Richard Vickers: You've gotta hold
your breath there, Harry. You've gotta
hold your breath.
Richard
Vickers: It's Showtime!
Richard
Vickers: You better get out of here,
Wentworth. You seem to be forgetting, I
have the gun!
[after
Harry buries him in sand]
Richard Vickers: Oh I can hold my
breath for a long, long time!
Henry:
I drove out there with the remains of
three human beings... well, two human
beings and Wilma.
Henry:
Just tell him to call you Billie, you
bitch!
Wilma
Northrup: I am TELLIN' you, some of
these, so called academic's make the
shark in "Jaws" look like
fuckin flipper!
Wilma
Northrup: Get out of my way Henry, or
I swear to god you will be wearing your
balls for earrings!
Wilma
Northrup: Just call me Billie,
everyone does.
Wilma
Northrup: You're hysterical Henry.
It's just what I would have expected.
Henry Northrup: No, I don't think
you'll expect this Wilma. No this is
gonna be an entirely new experience.
Wilma
Northrup: Oh Henry can't you do
anything right?
Henry Northrup: What?
Wilma Northrup: What? That's what
I figured, what? That's just what I would
expect from you, I told you half an hour
ago to get one of those kids in the
monkey suits to bring the car around!
Henry Northrup: Oh I'm sorry.
Wilma Northrup: Oh Henry, you are
such a little kid, I swear to god you
are, I mean were would you be without me
to take care of you!
Wilma
Northrup: You know what Henry, you're
a regular barn yard exhibit, your sheep's
eyes, chicken guts, piggy friends and
shit for brains!
White:
What's the matter, Mr. Pratt? Bugs got
your tongue?
Upson
Pratt: What the fuck, another son of
a bitchin blackout? Well if this was my
power company it would never happen.
Upson
Pratt: Go out and fuck somebody. But
wear a damn rubber, everybody's got the
damn herpes these days.
Upson
Pratt: Norman Katsenmeyer's a
dinosaur, he's too fucking blind to find
his way into the nearest tar pit.
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