CREEPSHOW 3 set to suck
I am a huge fan of George Romero’s CREEPSHOW, having rented it endlessly from Sound Warehouse throughout junior high. Heck, I even love CREEPSHOW 2, the inferior but still vastly entertaining sequel. That’s why the idea of a third film sat well with me since 1987.
But now that CREEPSHOW 3 is a reality, I wish it weren’t. I hate to pass judgment on a film I haven’t yet seen, but from the looks of the official site, we’ve got nothing to look forward to. For one thing, Romero is not involved. For another, it’s not based on Stephen King stories this time around. And for another, it looks dirt-cheap and shot on video. The cast is all no-names. The stories look like uninspired syndicated-TV stuff. And it’s from the people who got the rights to another Romero property and made a shitty sequel called DAY OF THE DEAD 2: CONTAGIUM, which no one seems to like.
I’d say I’m more excited about news of Warner Brothers’ remake of the original CREEPSHOW, but that would imply some level of excitement over this.
May 3rd, 2006 at 8:11 am
[...] The non-illustrated pages of CRYPTIC are far worse than any half-baked comic short. The book reviews are an eyesore (thanks to the aforementioned font fiasco), the profile of DAY OF THE DEAD’s “Bub” says nothing and the “article” on CREEPSHOW 3 reads like an unedited press release. There’s a column called “Dr. Hall’s House of Forgotten Horrors,” which sounds promising, but its subject of NOSFERATU is hardly what any horror fan would consider “forgotten.” The cover-teased article on Dario Argento’s disturbing DEEP RED: THE HATCHET MURDERS is little more than a two-page plot summary. [...]
May 3rd, 2006 at 8:12 am
[...] The non-illustrated pages of CRYPTIC are far worse than any half-baked comic short. The book reviews are an eyesore (thanks to the aforementioned font fiasco), the profile of DAY OF THE DEAD’s “Bub” says nothing and the “article” on CREEPSHOW 3 reads like an unedited press release. There’s a column called “Dr. Hall’s House of Forgotten Horrors,” which sounds promising, but its subject of NOSFERATU is hardly what any horror fan would consider “forgotten.” The cover-teased article on Dario Argento’s disturbing DEEP RED: THE HATCHET MURDERS is little more than a two-page plot summary. [...]
January 18th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
CREEPSHOW 3 IS KIND A LIKE THE OTHER TWO CREEPSHOWS
I HOPE THAT THIS ONE WILL BE THE SAME