Creepshow 2 (1987)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.3/10   

Director:

Michael Gornick

Escritores:

Stephen King (stories)
George A. Romero (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1 mayo 1987 (USA)

Género:

Fantasía | Horror | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

When The Curtain Goes Up, The Terror Begins!

Plot:

George Romero and Stephen King return to bring three stories that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge...and will not die!

Plot Keywords:

Hitchhiker | Blob | Raft | Lake | Hit And Run

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

two out of three are worth seeing...a better score than the first Creepshow

Reparto

Domenick John	...	Billy (prologue)
Tom Savini	...	The Creep (prologue)
George Kennedy	...	Ray Spruce (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Philip Dore	...	Curly (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Kaltey Napoleon	...	Indian #1 (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Maltby Napoleon	...	Indian #1 (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Tyrone Tonto	...	Indian #2 (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Dorothy Lamour	...	Martha Spruce (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Frank Salsedo	...	Ben Whitemoon (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Holt McCallany	...	Sam Whitemoon (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
David Holbrook	...	Fatso Gribbens (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Don Harvey	...	Andy Cavanaugh (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Dan Kamin	...	Old Chief Wood'nhead (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Dean Smith	...	Mr. Cavanaugh (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")
Shirley Sonderegger	...	Mrs. Cavanaugh (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")

También conocida como:

Creepshow II (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
Dead and Undead: Creepshow 2 (USA)

Duración:

92 min | UK:85 min (UK video version)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Sweden:(Banned) | Iceland:16 | UK:15 (video re-rating) | Finland:K-18 | Australia:M | France:U | Norway:18 (video premiere) | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Locaciones de Filmación:

Arizona, USA

Compañía:

Laurel Entertainment Inc.

Trivialidades:

'David Holbrook' appears in Segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead". His father Hal Holbrook starred in the original Creepshow (1982).

Errores:

Continuidad: In 'The Raft' the angle of the car, and it's distance from the water changes.

Citas:

The Hitchhiker: Thanks for the ride, lady!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)

two out of three are worth seeing...a better score than the first Creepshow

To say the least, I'm not a fan of the original 'Creepshow'. There were many elements that constituted to it being a load of rubbish, chief among them were the facts that it featured too many stories, and worse still; they were all under imaginative and boring. I wasn't expecting anything more than more of the same from the sequel, so you can imagine my surprise when it turned out that, unlike it's dreary predecessor, Creepshow 2 is the fun time that you expect this sort of film to be! George A. Romero and Stephen King are on screenplay writing duty, while someone called Michael Gornick has taken over the directing duties. This time, the film has an animated wraparound story, which is actually quite nice. It's clearly aimed at the American comic book crowd, which I am not a part of, but even so; it gives the film a nice campy feel. The first story makes all that I've said seem false, but don't let that fool you; it gets a lot better. In this tale, we see a wooden Indian get revenge on the kids that killed his owners. This mundane plot is topped off by a plethora of rubbish performances, and while it isn't completely terrible; it's not very good either.

Things start to look up after that, as we enter the second tale of the trio. Tale two is easily the best, and it sees a bunch of dope-smoking teenagers getting their kicks aboard a raft in the middle of a neglected lake. Unbeknown to them, the lake is also the home of a strange blob-like creature, and it's hungry! This tale isn't a horror master class or anything, but it's good because it stays true to the eighties silly horror style, and also because the entire thing is shrouded in mystery. We're never given any clue as to what the creature is, and this allows the short to concentrate on the more important story elements. I also liked the way that the tale was set up, as it's easy to put yourself in the situation that these teens find themselves in...even if it is very silly. The third and final story features a woman involved in a hit and run accident. Only she didn't kill the man that she hit, and he wants his revenge! This story rounds off the trilogy nicely as it's simple, relentless stuff and while, like the rest of the film, it lacks anything resembling intellect, this stuff is obviously just meant to be fun; so it doesn't matter. Overall, this isn't one of the best horror omnibuses - but it's better than the first film, and offers two good tales out of three.