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[[File:Creepshow 1982film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Scene from ''Creepshow (1982 franchise)''...]]

==Summary==


A series of anthology horror film collaborations between [[George A. Romero]] and [[Stephen King]]; many consider ''Creepshow 3'' (2007) to be a sequel in-name-only, and some of the cast and crew from the first two films consider ''Tales from the Darkside, the Movie'' (1990) to be a more faithful spiritual successor to the series.
* ''Creepshow'' (1982), AKA ''Creep Show'', ''Stephen King's Creepshow'', ''Creephsow: Tales of Terror''
* ''Cat's Eye'' (1985)
* ''Creepshow 2'' (1987)
* ''Tales from the Darkside'' (1990)
* ''Creepshow 3'' (2007) (no involvement from George Romero or Stephen King)

==Details==

* Release Date: 1982-2007
* Country/Language: US, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Comedy (black humor), Anthology
* Starring: (various)
* Director: [[George A. Romero]]
* Writer: [[Stephen King]]
* Producer/Production Co: Creepshow Films Inc., Laurel Entertainment Inc., Laurel-Show Inc.
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDTpWFGnBek link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG8q8XcgjWw link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFn68-bpAHo link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9lVoUKk-8Y link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5X3RlY8c88 link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (Violence, Profanity, Adult Content, Nudity, Sexual Situations)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)

Written by [[Stephen King]] in the style of comic books inspired by classic pulp horror, this anthology does include a couple of King's more "Lovecraftian" tales; "Lovecraftians" may find the stories "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", "The Crate", and "The Raft" are especially similar in tone to Lovecraft's fiction.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
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==Synopsis==

An anthology series of short stories written by [[Stephen King]] in imitation of comic books written in the tradition of pulp horror stories...
* CREEPSHOW (1982) -
** "Creepshow" - A young boy, abused by his father for reading a ''Creepshow'' comic; the next day, two garbage collectors find the comic in the trash, with a coupon for a novelty voodoo doll strangely missing, while the father finds himself plagued by mysterious stabbing pains....
** "Father's Day" - A miserly and abusive gangster, murdered by his family, returns from the grave on Father's Day.
** "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" - based on the "Lovecraftian" [[Stephen King]] short story, "Weeds", a backwoods yokel discovers a meteorite filled with alien life....
** "Something to Tide You Over" - A wealthy psychopath meets his doom after he buries his wife and her lover up to their necks in the sand at low tide, and watches over closed-circuit TV cameras from the comfort of his mansion as they drown in the incoming high tide....
** "The Crate" - A college custodian release a buried nightmare from a wooden storage crate hidden under a staircase for 147 years....
** "They're Creeping Up on You" - a ruthless businessman with a fear of germs lives in a hermetically-sealed penthouse apartment, where he finds himself suddenly besieged by a supernatural infestation of cockroaches....
* CAT'S EYE (1985) -
** "Cat's Eye" - A down-on-its-luck stray cat is chased by a St. Bernard dog and a red 1958 Plymouth Fury (in nods to other Stephen King stories), onto a harrowing cross-country trip, while answering a plea for help from a little girl in mortal danger.
** "Quitters, Inc." - A smoker joins a quit-smoking scheme operated by ruthless and fanatical mobsters.
** "The Ledge" - A sadistic gangster forces his wife's lover to creep around a dangerous ledge near the penthouse level of a sky-rise apartment building.
** "General" - the stray cat from the wrap-around story is adopted into the girl's family, who are unaware that the girl is being menaced at night by a malevolent troll.
* CREEPSHOW 2 (1987) -
** "Billy" - A deivery truck arrives with the latest issue of ''Creepshow'', while Billy, a boy hounded by bullies, awaits feeding time for the novelty Venus Flytraps he has ordered from the comic.
** "Old Chief Wood'n'Head" - A wooden cigar stoor Indian comes to life after an elderly couple try to call in collateral for debts incurred by a local tribe.
** "The Raft" - A group of young adults go skinny-diping in a remote lake where swimming is forbidden.
** "The Hitch-Hiker" - An adulteress is haunted by the victim of her hit-and-run accident.
* TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE, THE MOVIE (1990) -
** "Intro" - A suburban witch is about to serve young Timmy to her dinner guests; to stall her, the boy tells her three stories from a book called ''Tales from the Darkside''...
** "Lot 249" - From [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s short story about an Egyptology student's reanimated mummy...
** "Cat From Hell" - A [[Stephen King]] story about an eccentric old man who hires a hit man to assassinate a cat for $100,000.
** "Lover's Vow" - Based on a traditional Japanese [[Yokai]] story about a man who witnesses a killing committed by a hideous monster, and is then forced to promise it that he will tell nobody the story.
* CREEPHSOW 3 (2007, created without the involvement of George Romero or Stephen King, and poorly-received compared to the earlier films):
** "Wraparound" - Characters from the stories collide with each other at a hotdog stand.
** "Alice" - An experimental remote control transforms a troubled family, with references to "Alice in Wonderland".
** "The Radio" - A troubled security guard recieves orders from a disembodied voice on his radio.
** "Call Girl" - A serial-killer call girl's latest victim turns out to be much harder to kill than her previous victims....
** "The Professor's Wife" - A professor's strange fiance is not what she appears to be....
** "Haunted Dog" - A homeless man dies after eating the hotdog a miserly doctor gave him after dropping it on the ground....

==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
* TO DO
* fiction: [[Stephen King]]'s "Weeds" and "The Crate"

===Keeper Notes===



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 * Producer/Production Co:  Creepshow Films Inc., Laurel Entertainment Inc., Laurel-Show Inc.
 * View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDTpWFGnBek link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG8q8XcgjWw link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFn68-bpAHo link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9lVoUKk-8Y link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5X3RlY8c88 link])
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 ** "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" - based on the "Lovecraftian" [[Stephen King]] short story, "Weeds", a backwoods yokel discovers a meteorite filled with alien life....
 ** "Something to Tide You Over" - A wealthy psychopath meets his doom after he buries his wife and her lover up to their necks in the sand at low tide, and watches over closed-circuit TV cameras from the comfort of his mansion as they drown in the incoming high tide....
-** "The Crate" - A college custodian release a buried nightmare from a wooden storage crate hidden under a staircase for 147 years....
+** "The Crate" - A "Horlicks University" college custodian release a buried nightmare from a wooden storage crate hidden under a staircase for 147 years....
 ** "They're Creeping Up on You" - a ruthless businessman with a fear of germs lives in a hermetically-sealed penthouse apartment, where he finds himself suddenly besieged by a supernatural infestation of cockroaches....
 * CAT'S EYE (1985) -
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 ===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
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 ===Associated Mythos Elements===
 * TO DO
-* fiction:  [[Stephen King]]'s "Weeds" and "The Crate"
+* fiction:  [[Stephen King]]'s "Weeds", "The Crate", and "The Raft"