I've come to enjoy my late-night Thursday viewings of Shudder's Creepshow. It's something I look forward to every week, in much the same way I anticipated my weekly watches of The A-Team or Knight Rider as a boy.
Yes, that's supposed to be a compliment. Shawn and I have some things to say about that on our upcoming podcast, by the way.
The latest Creepshow episode offers one groovy story, and one that's not so groovy. As with any anthology, you gotta take the good with the bad. It's the nature of the beast.
The Companion is my preferred story. It's an old-school tale about a boy combating a bully, and finding an unlikely ally in a monstrous scarecrow. Being a creature-feature fan, I was all over this one. The practical effects, lean script -- this is based on a Joe R. Lansdale story -- and tight direction make this a fun romp. And it ends exactly how I wanted it to. Stoked!
As for Lydia Layne's Better Half... well, it wasn't the better half of this episode. In fact, I felt I'd seen this one before, and told better. A woman accidentally kills her lover, gets trapped in an elevator with the corpse, and the corpse wants revenge. Been there, done that, knew how things were going to play out. I was bored and waiting for the story to end. Bah!
This is the first Creepshow episode I'm giving a Bad to, but only because of the weak second story. I eagerly await next week's episode.
Yes, that's supposed to be a compliment. Shawn and I have some things to say about that on our upcoming podcast, by the way.
The latest Creepshow episode offers one groovy story, and one that's not so groovy. As with any anthology, you gotta take the good with the bad. It's the nature of the beast.
The Companion is my preferred story. It's an old-school tale about a boy combating a bully, and finding an unlikely ally in a monstrous scarecrow. Being a creature-feature fan, I was all over this one. The practical effects, lean script -- this is based on a Joe R. Lansdale story -- and tight direction make this a fun romp. And it ends exactly how I wanted it to. Stoked!
As for Lydia Layne's Better Half... well, it wasn't the better half of this episode. In fact, I felt I'd seen this one before, and told better. A woman accidentally kills her lover, gets trapped in an elevator with the corpse, and the corpse wants revenge. Been there, done that, knew how things were going to play out. I was bored and waiting for the story to end. Bah!
This is the first Creepshow episode I'm giving a Bad to, but only because of the weak second story. I eagerly await next week's episode.
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