Creepshow Saturday

I was thinking about a previous rating I had for Creepshow (1982). I gave it 9/10 on IMDb. I still think "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" is a lot of fun, even if King was a cartoon, exaggerating Kabuki Theater style in his performance. I don't think Romero ever shot this with much hint of pure melodrama, but I still thought that conclusion was just tragic. Yes, Jordy was a lunkhead. But his fate was still, nonetheless, sad. He died all alone, his body practically a grassy knoll. King really goes out with the eyes and makes sure to emphasize his lack of intellect. "Meteor Shit!" is, to the day, a readymade meme. 

It is inevitable you will read of "Creepshow (1982) is overrated" when scowering the comments of a Letterboxd or user comments on IMDb. I'm the first to admit that I build the film up as a grandiose compilation of macabre tales that popped me as a teenager when I watched it in full for the first time in the early, early 90s. At summer camp one year as a kid, on movie night, "Creepshow" was picked as the film all of the youth wanted to watch, and our counselors were very lax on rules, allowing cursing, smoking, and horror film watching. I recall this fondly,obviously today. But then I remember parents discovering this somehow, really not okay with such allowances. I guess some of the kids blabbed. I can remember keeping my head down, a little scaredy-cat, while everyone else seemed to be having a good time. Nowadays, and for the last twenty or so years, "Creepshow" is essential summer or Halloween season viewing. But I wanted to revisit the sequel, Creephow 2 (1987) as well.

"Creepshow 2" was a film I first recall watching when I borrowed a VHS tape from my oft-mentioned uncle. It was, of course, recorded from HBO and, if I'm not mistaken, was actually viewed before the first "Creepshow" by me. "The Raft" is "The Crate" from the sequel to me; I think when you read from most of the comments about the second film, "The Raft" is brought up as the best of the three tales quite often.