Creepshow


Creepshow is a 1982 elemental black comedy and horror anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King, making this film his screenwriting debut. The films ensemble cast included Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson and E. G. Marshall, as well as Stephen King himself in his film acting debut. The film was shot on location in Pittsburgh and its suburbs, including Monroeville, where Romero leased an old boys academy Penn Hall to build extensive sets for the film.

A young boy named Billy gets yelled at and slapped by his father, Stan, for reading a horror comic titled Creepshow. Stan reminds his wife that he had to be hard on Billy because he does not want their son to be reading such crap. As Billy sits upstairs cursing his father with hopes of him rotting in Hell, he hears a sound at the window, which turns out to be a ghostly apparition in the form of The Creep from the comic book, beckoning him to come closer.First story, written by King specifically for the film Nathan Grantham, the miserly old patriarch of a family whose fortune was made through bootlegging, fraud, extortion, and murderforhire, is killed on Fathers Day by his longsuffering spinster daughter Bedelia. Bedelia was already unstable as the result of a lifetime spent putting up with her fathers incessant demands and emotional abuse, which culminated in his orchestrating the murder of her sweetheart. ........

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