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Creepshow (1982)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1982
Running Times: 117 mins (Netherlands)
118 mins (UK) 120 mins (USA)
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.66:1 (negative ratio) 1.85:1
(intended ratio)
Sound: Dolby
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Laurel Entertainment
Executive Producer: Salah
M. Hassanein
Producer: Richard P. Rubinstein
Assistant Producer: Maureen Andersen
Associate Producer: David E. Vogel
SCRIPT
Script/Short Stories: Stephen King
DIRECTION
Director: George
A. Romero
1st Assistant Director: John Harrison
Assistant Director: Carl Clifford
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Michael
Gornick
1st Assistant Camera: Tom Dubensky
Key Grip: Nicholas Mastandrea
EDITORS
Editor: Michael Spolan (Father's Day, They're
Creeping Up On You); Pasquale Buba (The Lonesome Death
of Jordy Verrill); George A. Romero (Something To Tide
You Over); Paul Hirsch (The Crate)
1st Assistant Editor: Ron Bochar
Post Production Co-Ordinator: Michael
Gornick
MUSIC
Music: John Harrison, Michelle Dibucci
SOUND
Supervising Sound Editor: Pam DeMetruis
Feature Soundtrack: John Sutton
MAKE-UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Barbara Anderson
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Effects Make Up: Tom
Savini
Make Up Effects Assistants: Rick Catizone, Darryl Ferrucci, Jessie Nathans
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Scenic Special Effects: Cletus Anderson
Animator: Rick Catizone
Matte Painting Photography: Jim Aupperle (uncredited)
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Cletus Anderson
Art Director: Larry Fulton
Comic Book Art: Jack Kamen
Comic Book Lettering: Jim Novak
OTHER SOURCES
Assistant to Producer: Maureen Anderson
Assistant to Director: Christine Forrest
Office Manager: Vincent D. Survinski
LOCATIONS
Locations: Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
CAST
Prologue
Iva Jean Saraceni (Billy's mother)
Joe King (Billy)
Tom Atkins (Billy's father)
Marty Schiff (1st garbageman)
Tom Savini (2nd
garbageman)
1. Father's Day
Carrie Nye (Aunt Sylvia Grantham)
Viveca Lindfors (Aunt Bedalia)
Elizabeth Regan (Cass Blaine)
Ed Harris (Hank Blaine)
Warner Shook (Richard Grantham)
Jon Lormer (Nathan Grantham)
John Amplas (Nathan Grantham's copse)
Nann Mogg (Mrs Danvers)
Peter Messer (Yarbro)
2. The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill
Stephen King (Jordy Verrill)
Bingo O'Malley (Jordy's father)
3. Something To Tide You Over
Leslie Nielsen (Richard Vickers)
Gaylen Ross (Becky Vickers)
Ted Danson (Harry Wentworth)
4. The Crate
Hal Holbrook (Henry Northrup)
Adrienne Barbeau (Wilma Northrup)
Fritz Weaver (Professor Dexter Stanley)
Don Keefer (Mike the janitor)
Robert Harper (Charlie Gereson)
Cletus Anderson (host)
Katie Karlowitz (maid)
Chuck Aber (Richard Raymond)
Christine Forrest (Tabitha Raymond)
Darryl Ferrucci (Fluffy - uncredited)
Charles Van Eman (bartender - uncredited)
5. They're Creeping Up On You
E.G. Marshall (Upson Pratt)
David Early (Mr White)
PLOT SUMMARY
A five part anthology of horror stories:
1: Father's Day: an old man returns from the grave
to claim the Father's Day cake made for him by the daughter who murdered
him.
2: The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill: A dim-witted
farmer is transformed by his contact with a meteor that crashes on his
land and starts to turn everything around it into vegetation.
3. Something To Tide You Over: A vengeful husband
buries his wife and her lover up to their necks on the beach and waits
for the tide to come in as he abuses and torments them.
4. The Crate: A crate is delivered to a college
professor that contains something very nasty, something that will eventually
come face to face with the professor's shrewish wife.
5. They're Creeping Up On You: An eccentric businessman,
obsessed with cleanliness, locks himself away in his spotless apartment
and falls foul of a cockroach infestation.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A fun but over-rated anthology that, like all of
its kind, consists of the good (Something To Tide You Over,
They're Creeping Up on You), the bad (The Lonesome
Death of Jordy Verrill, Father's Day) and
the indifferent (The Crate). Not the masterpiece that
it's hailed as by some, but certainly when it at it's best it's hugely
entertaining.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: Intervision; 4 Front Video
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Brothers/UFD
Video Distributor: Warner Brothers Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Warner Brothers Home Video (11306)
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video (16053)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Finland
Rating: K-18
France
Rating: -12
Germany
Rating: 18
The theatrical print was missing the fourth episode, The Crate,
though it is on the video and laserdisc releases.
Italy
For some reason, the third episode, The Lonesome Death of Jordy
Verrill, was missing from theatrical prints.
Netherlands
Rating: 16
Norway
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: R
Several cable broadcasts have removed the final story, They're
Creeping Up On You.
TIMELINE
1982
October
31: USA - theatrical release
1983
March
31: Sweden - theatrical release
April
29: West Germany - theatrical release
June
22: France - theatrical release
July
29: Finland - theatrical release
1992
October
31: UK - television broacast (on BBC2)
1994
October
26: USA - laserdisc release (Warner Brothers Home Video (11306))
1998
September
20: UK - television broacast (on Channel 5)
1999
October
26: USA - DVD release (Warner Home Video (16053))
2002
January
5: USA - television broadcast (on TNT)
POSTER TAGS
The Most Fun You'll Ever Have Being Scared!
The Masters of Terror and the Macabre
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Die Unheimlich verrückte Geisterstunde -
German title
LINKS
SEQUEL
Creepshow 2 (1987)
SEE ALSO
The Blob (1958)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Men in Black (1997)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED
Scream Greats Volume 1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror Make-up (1986)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cahiers du Cinéma no.351 (September
1983) pp.62-63 (France)
review
Cinefantastique vol.12 no.1 (February 1982) p.6 (USA)
Cinefantastique vol.12 no.2 (April 1982) pp.16-21
(USA)
Cinefantastique vol.13 no.1 (September/October 1982)
pp.17-35; 46 (USA)
article, interview; review
Cinefantastique vol.13 no.2/3 (November/December
1982) p.10 (USA)
interview
Cinefantastique vol.13 no.4 (April/May 1983) p.56
(USA)
review
L'Ecran Fantastique no.25 (1982) pp.30-32; 33-37;
38
review; interview
Fangoria 18 pp.16-19
interview
Film Score Monthly vol.8 no.8 (September
2003) pp.33-34 (USA)
illustrated soundtrack review
Films and Filming no.340 (January 1983) pp.28-29 (UK)
review
Hablos de cine no.77 (March 1984) pp.76-77 (Puerto
Rico)
review
Halls of Horror 27 p.19
note
Hollywood Reporter vol.274 no.19 (12 November
1982) pp.3, 54 (USA)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.49 no.586 (November 1982)
pp.260-261 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Motion Picture Product Digest vol.10 no.12 (1 December
1982) p.46 (USA)
review
Prevue no.47 (April/May 1982) pp.61-63 (USA)
review
Screen International no.284 (21 March 1981) p.12
review
Screen International no.320 (28 March 1981) p.3
note
Screen International no.368 (6 November 1982) p.18
(UK)
review
Shivers 36 p.28
review
Starburst no.44 (1982) pp.46-50 (UK)
interview
Starlog 64 pp.10-11
interview
Variety 26 May 1982 p.17 (USA)
credits, synopsis, review
BOOKS
The Films of Stephen King pp.20-23
credits, review
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.82
credits, review
KEYWORDS
adultery, anthologies, birthdays, cockroaches, disembodied
heads, farms, graves, insects, meteors, the
sea, mutations, zombies
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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