Guide Note

Creepshow is a horror film from 1982 that was directed by George A. Romero. Creepshow was written by Stephen King and was based on the popular E.C. Comic series of the 1950s also titled Creepshow. At the beginning of each story pages from the comic stories are shown.

Fast Facts

1. Five Stories: Father’s Day, The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill, Something to Tide You Over, The Crate and They’re Creeping up on you
2. Written by Stephen King
3. Directed by George A. Romero
4. Starring: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, E.G. Marshall, Ed Harris, Ted Danson, Stephen King, Robert Harper and others
5. Rated R
6. Run time: 120 minutes
7. Homage to popular E.C. Comics of the 1950s

1. Rice Krispies were used as the maggots, along with real maggots, on the corpse's eyes in the first story
2. The same marble ashtray is in all 5 stories
3. The young boy at the beginning reading the comic books was Stephen King's son

What they've done here is to recapture not only the look and the storylines of old horror comics, but also the peculiar feeling of poetic justice that permeated their pages. In an EC horror story, unspeakable things happened to people but, for the most part, they deserved them. — Roger Ebert