| Record Number |
853143 |
| Title |
Creepshow [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Kew, Vic.] : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, [2020] |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (120 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. |
| The film consists of five short stories: "Father's Day", "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" (based on the King short story "Weeds"), "Something to Tide You Over", "The Crate" (based on the King short story of the same name) and "They're Creeping Up on You!" ; bookended by prologue and epilogue scenes featuring a young boy named Billy (played by King's son, Joe), who is punished by his abusive father for reading horror comics. |
| "The most fun you'll ever have being scared!" --Container. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by George A. Romero ; screenplay by Stephen King. |
| Performer note |
Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E.G. Marshall, Viveca Lindfors. |
| Summary Note |
Two macabre masters - writer Stephen King and director George A. Romero - conjure up five shocking yarns, each a virtuoso exercise in the ghouls-and-gags style of classic '50s horror comics. A murdered man emerges from the grave for Father's Day cake. A meteor's ooze makes everything ... grow. A professor selects his wife as a snack for a crated creature. A scheming husband plants two lovers up to their necks in terror. A malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia becomes the prey of a cockroach army. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : M. |
| Language note |
In English. No subtitles. |
| Subject |
Monsters -- Drama |
| Murder -- Drama |
| Abusive men -- Drama |
| Insect phobia -- Drama |
| Meteorites -- Drama |
| Comic books, strips, etc -- Drama |
| Horror tales, American -- Drama |
| Dark comedy films. |
| Subculture films. |
| Film adaptations. |
| Fiction films. |
| Horror films. |
| Feature films. |
| Added Author |
Rubinstein, Richard P. |
| Romero, George A. |
| King, Stephen, 1947- screenwriter. |
| Buba, Pasquale |
| DiBucci, Michelle |
| Harrison, John |
| Holbrook, Hal |
| Barbeau, Adrienne, 1945- |
| Weaver, Fritz, 1926-2016 |
| Nielsen, Leslie, 1926-2010 |
| Cavett, Carrie Nye |
| Marshall, E. G., 1914-1998 |
| Lindfors, Viveca, 1920-1995 |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F CREE |
