A wooden Native American outside a store, a deadly blob in a lake and a hitchhiker who refuses to die are three creepy tales that come to life from a kid’s comic book.
Creepshow 2 might not be today what it used to be back then, but hear me out. Following the success of Creepshow (1982): https://kaygazpro.com/creepshow-1982/, throughout this anthology, writers George A. Romero, Stephen King, and Lucille Fletcher, and director Michael Gornick (DOP on Creepshow) question certain taboos way ahead of their time. Class, race, revenge, respect, guilt, and punishment are only a few of the issues the anthology addresses. Here’s an example: In the vengeful Old Warrior, the old towns are dying, and the story starts with the mutual respect between two old timers who know what respect means, and the younger generation, which has never heard of the concept.
Throughout this and the rest of the stories, there are relatable thrills, horrors, and dramas wrapped in humour and the paranormal, intended to entertain, frighten, and convey subliminal messages. No harm there. That’s what art does: it expresses the way we act, react, feel, and so on. Like its predecessor, it is a concoction of so many rights and wrongs that… there aren’t any rights or wrongs. It is what you watch and enjoy with your friends or alone.
That creepy humour might not be much nowadays, as I said earlier, but for people like me and all of us who grew up with these stories, we still remember putting on the VHS and getting frightened. That applies to both Creepshow and Creepshow 2. So, watching it now, it only brings back memories of how we used to feel as kids. Little did we know that the true horrors would come later on in life…
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