31 Days of Horror
Day: 2
Creepshow 2
Dir: Michael Gornick
Written by: Stephen
King and George Romero
Gelatinous monsters
continue. I do enjoy a good anthology. Creepshow
2 might have the admiration behind it like the first one does but I can’t help
but have a soft spot in my horror heart for anthologies, even not so good one.
What Creepshow 2 does have is a great
story, The Raft, about a killer lake
monster that just happens to be a blob. Michael Gornick seemed like a great
choice to direct this sequel considering he got his start on the television
show Tales From the Darkside.
It doesn’t end with lake blobs in this feature either, who
can forget the Old Chief Woodn’head
story. To this day whenever I see a wooden native in front of a smoke shop, or
in Frontier Land at Disneyland, I stop and strike a pose because of this film.
I never really cared for the hitchhiker story, it seemed too much like the
hitchhiker tale in Twilight Zone, but
it’s actually quit funny. There are also some really nice embedded nodes to the
original film as well. For instance, in The
Raft, one of the girls is wearing a Horlicks University shirt, the same
college from the creature in the crate story in the first film. Give this film
another look, you might not appreciate it much more than you did, but it’s
still better than a lot of the horror flicks we are getting today. Day 2 posing
with The Chief. 
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