Tom Savini was spinning yarns to us at a convention once around 1990 or so, that one of his proudest experiences was actual police forensics people being called in to investigate the Creep from Creepshow. Apparently it had ended up in the inventory of some antique/curio shop and some customers were concerned that it was actual mummified human remains, and reported it to police. He loved that they had to perform diagnostics on it to prove it wasn't an actual corpse, but a sculpture of latex and rice crispies.
I used to live right by Tom Savini in Pittsburgh...I've moved to the opposite side of the city now. They painted a nice mural of him in his neighborhood (Bloomfield*)
One of Creepshow's editors was the late Pasquale "Patsy" Buba and my best friend, growing up, was his cousin. Patsy was nice enough to let his cousin and me stay at his guest house in the Hollywood Hills back in the 1990's. At the time, he was working with Al Pacino editing Looking For Richard and we got to watch him piece that film together. Actually, it was the first time he used an Avid machine instead of an editor's table. Patsy edited or co-edited a ton of well known films, but he started with George Romeo in the 1970s. Hell, the house they shot a lot of Martin in was Patsy mother's house. He went on to edit Creepshow, Day of the Dead, Striking Distance, The Dark Half, Heat and Casino. From Romero to Scorsese, that's a helluva journey.
Amazing Props Editing Casino, Scorsese says the wise guys were RUSHING to tell all after how well GoodFellas did. The Book & Movie for Casino were being made at the same time, Unlike GF which was a hit book before becoming a movie. This helped explain why Casino'd story wasn't as smooth as GF, yet still has big all time movie moments.
Please check out the podcast "With Gourley and Rust," a self-proclaimed cozy-cast where they do deep dive on various horror movie series and one offs. Very, very funny and just a wonderful experience overall.
I grew up in Bangor Maine and was used to seeing Stephen King randomly around town. One of my first memories of seeing him was in 1983 or so in Betts bookstore at the Bangor mall. He was a very creepy looking dude back then. He had long greasy hair, in his thirties and still wearing his high school letter jacket🤔. My mother pointed him out to 6 year old me "that's Stephen King" she said. She then grabbed me tight and said "don't go near him" as he looked that much of a freak. The nineties on if you spotted him around town he looked/dressed like an ivy league English professor. Strange to live in a city with a 30k population and have a famous author worh almost a billion dollars just putting around. He still hangs out in his house on West Broadway and owns a local radio station there.
Part of Creepshow 2 was filmed in Bangor, I think it might be an on-ramp they used for the Hitchhiker segment. My parents used to pass by it while they were filming, according to my mother who never shuts up about it.
I grew up in a town so small, my graduating class in high-school was 17 people. it was weird that Marylin Manson used to come by cause he had a friend that lived there. Last time I saw him was mid 2000s, and he was just really chill. Famous people probably like going to the middle of nowhere and not be bothered.
That's hilarious. The freakiness was totally lost on Boston University when they invited him to do a Halloween lecture back in 1986 when I was a freshman there. I managed to get tickets and the auditorium was sold out. He managed to break the rules immediately by pulling not one but two beers out of his blazer pockets and guzzling them during the talk, as well as lighting up a cigarette and joyfully puffing away on it. We rebellious college students loved it. There was also rapturous applause when he told a most disgusting joke about a bar bet that had a guy having to guzzle an entire spittoon of mucus - described in grotesque Stephen King detail. What a memory.
I've been binging red letter media for about a month and a half now. You guys are getting me through a particularly tough chapter in my life where laughs have been few and far between. How can anyone hear Rich Evans laugh and not feel better?
Something to tide you over absolutely terrified me as a kid. The way they speak when they come back from the dead like their lungs are still full of water always stuck with me. This is definitely one of my favorite performances from Leslie Nielsen.
It's a great sounding effect, and rather similar sounding to the zombie demanding his father's day cake & again when Stephen King's turned full plant monster praying to get his aim right with the shotgun.
All the stories are horrific and torturous. Specially being buried up to neck for the tide to come in, and growing grass unstoppably all over your body, as well as a massive roach infestation.
Their voices and then the scene where he frantically locks the door, thinks they are gone, takes a deep breath, turns around and literally one step behind him they are there. Gave me so many nightmares as a kid that cheap effective jumpscare.
My father and I are estranged, I haven't seen him since I was 13, and a DVD of Creepshow was the last gift he ever gave me. I watched this bad boi probably like a hundred times
Just realized my family has been quoting "WHERE'S MY CAKE?" "I got my cake" at every birthday party as long as I've been alive and I never knew this was the reference lol
I wonder if Leslie Nielsen could have continued being in movies in serious roles but mainly as a villain. I mean he was genuinely creepy in Creepshow. Imagine him in Lethal Weapon.
@@soulknife20 Would never have thought he was so tall. Just looked like someone of average height to me. Next time I watch Forbidden Planet, I'll try to look out for that.
Creepshow 2 is very uneven but The Raft is one of the scariest stories I've seen on screen. Blob monsters are scary as hell and being stranded on the water like that at the mercy of one is such a dire premise.
Oh I remember watching it as a kid in the former USSR after it immediate collapse. Tone matched perfectly with a reality. Mossman and drowning stuck with me for decades.
Crate trivia: Fluffy's crate also showed up in an episode of _The Walking Dead,_ and a miniature version of it was seen in the _Creepshow_ series episode "The House of the Head." That crate really gets around! I'm afraid I'm going to wake up and see it next to my bed! The geographical term "Antarctica" did not exist in 1834, the date on the crate. The terms in use at that time were "North Arctic" and "South Arctic," as pointed out by Dex Stanley in King's original short story. Dex also notices, stenciled on the _back_ of the crate, PAELLA/SANTIAGO/SAN FRANCISCO/CHICAGO/NEW YORK/HORLICKS. So explorers found Fluffy somewhere close to the South Pole, not close to Santa's Workshop, almost 100 years before the 1930 Miskatonic University expedition! Is it possible that Fluffy....is a shoggoth? "The Crate" is alluded to in _Christine._ In that novel, Dennis Guilder is talking to Jimmy Sykes, the not-too-bright janitor at Darnell's Garage, after Will Darnell is killed by Christine. Jimmy tells Dennis that he's unemployed now that the garage is closed, but that maybe he can get a job as a janitor at nearby Horlicks University (where Arnie Cunningham's parents are both professors, btw) because "this other janitor, he disappeared, just took off or somethin'." Poor Mike. The kids on "The Raft" in _Creepshow 2_ are all students of Horlicks U. Is the oil slick creature in that story....Fluffy? Like I said, is Fluffy a shoggoth? Was Jack the Ripper in fact a sixty-foot sea serpent from Scotland? Did I take this job for a quick buck?
Thanks for the Crate trivia! I didn't know it was an actual published short story and not just a story cooked up for the movie. I was always fascinated about the circumstances of the expedition since nothing is explained in the movie. I guess the details are almost as murky in the short story as well but even that little nugget was interesting to learn. It always got my imagination running wild when i tried to figure out what happened in antarctica in 1834.
Huh, it was an interactive encyclopedia CD-ROM game that did it for me. You could fly around the world and visit different places, and one was the Amazon. So the screen quickly zoomed into a scene with half the frame above water and half the frame below water, and below the water was a GIGANTIC constricting snake (anaconda probably). So I've always been wary of water when I can't see through it, regardless of whether it's deep.
Much like Creepshow and the ashtray, I've noticed that RedLetterMedia often hides a lifelike animatronic of Megacelebrity Rich Evans in the background. See if you can spot him!
I was lucky enough to meet Adrienne Barbeau, back when she was touring and promoting her autobiography (circa 2006). During a Q&A, she remarked that her role in "CREEPSHOW" was her favorite film role. She was nice enough to sign my old DVD snapcase edition of "Creepshow" and she even wrote down her "barnyard animal" quote!
I have to concur. I saw Creepshow 2 when I was way too young, and the only part that I remembered for the rest of my life was The Raft. It freaked me out any time I went to a lake. I actually forgot it was from Creepshow 2 until a few years ago.
It was a really good short story too. King is nothing if not prolific. A lot of the short stories he wrote were not that memorable. The Raft was one that always stuck with me. The Long Walk and Survivor Type are a couple others that are etched into my brain.
One of my favorite films. What a way to start spooky season. I don't think it was very nice of you to shove Rich in a box so he could kill anyone who opens it though, that was a little excessive.
I love that unique vocal modulation effect used for the old man zombie demanding his cake from everyone is used repeatedly later on, for both King after being fully turned into the plant beast & hoping aloud to get his suicide shot right, then again when Danson & the woman he'd slept with are water-logged zombies talking at Leslie while being shot at. It's a cool sounding effect.
Google ttying to cut off his rant about time traveling back to kill Hitler only to be hypnotized by his "beautiful blue eyes" has to be one of my favorite moments in the history of live streaming
I'd love to see a re:View of Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight. Hugely underrated movie. William Sadler, Jada Pinkett, Billy Zane...even Charles "Roger Rabbit" Fleischer. Fabulous music, great flick.
I'd die for a Re:View of Hammer films or the mentioned Amicus films. Get some Horror of Dracula, Vampire Lovers and Doctor Terrors House of Horrors! Peter Cushing is in all three.
As someone born in the early 90s and would watch a lot of old sitcoms ans comedies on TV in my youth, it was surreal and thrilling to see not just Leslie Nielsen as such a surprisingly sinister creep, but then Ted Danson's character being killed in such a cruel manner, to then come back as a revenant to get his vengeance on said creep. It was cool how he played Frank Drebin with a mostly straight face, yet as a villain in this movie he plays it up a good bit, and it still works very well.
Creepshow 2 has a special place in my heart. Used to work etail with this guy who I didn’t imagine I had anything in common with. Randomly one day he said “thanks for the ride lady” and long story short we’ve been friends since and I’ve been dating his cousin for years lmao
Yes Creepshow 2 is way more enjoyable - for me atleast - then this one. As a kid the raft freaked me out but I laughed really hard at "Thanks for the ride lady, thanks for the ride". 😂
Not sure if someone has said this already, probably, but 3 years after Creepshow Tom Savini directed and did the special effects for a few episodes of Tales from the Darkside. The episode Halloween Candy features a fantastic little troll that looks very similar to Fluffy. It’s definitely one of the best episodes. This is probably the only place I can say this where anyone would care.
Back in the day my local video store guy (not block buster) told me ..man you've rented this so many times you could have bought the vhs 4 times.. I happily put my 2.99 on the counter and off I went on my bmx for another killer Saturday night pizza and creepshow..
I loved the old horror comics when I was growing up. My parents refused to let me have them, so I had to steal them. (When they found out punishing me for stealing them didn't work, they gave in and started letting me buy them) Creepshow captured the feeling of those comics perfectly. To this day it's the only anthology, movie or series, that I've ever liked. Thanks for bringing back many old memories. I think I'll have to finally buy a copy now. 🎃👍
That's hilarious! Back in the early 80s my parents wouldn't let me have toy guns, so I was "forced" to steal one. They looked real back in the day, so I probably could have used it rob stores. Wonder how many people ended up in prison because their parents wouldn't let them enjoy simple things.
I also loved them as a kid. Except in my day it was the single-issue reprints that came out in the early '90s. The horror and sci-fi lines were both excellent.
I'm not a monster who would ask you to go through all the terrible direct to video stuff but I'd love a re:view of the first two Hellraiser films whenever you have the time. That rebirth of Frank in the attic is one of my favourite pieces of practical effects and camera trickery.
The opening to Creepshow 2 was actually shot in my hometown and my dad ended up working crowd control for the shoot. It's not important just a kinda cool thing about my nowhere town.
I just finished Creepshow for the first time because of this video and I want to say a BIG thank you! I loved it!! What a great blend of everything that makes horror movies shine, from the campy and funny to eerie and horrifying!
Check out "Tales from the Crypt" (1972) , "Screams of a Winters Night" (1979) and "House of the Dead" (1977?). Also check out the 1971 series "Night Gallery" .
It’s so interesting cause I’m not really a horror guy or Halloween person at all! But the Josh and Jay reviews are some of my favorites cause they have such a great dynamic and they’re both so knowledgeable about films!
The first time my mom allowed me to pick a movie for my birthday party (at 10 years old), I chose Creepshow. I've loved it dearly since then and it will never cease to amaze me.
Creepshow is more successful in capturing its comic book roots than the vast majority of officially licensed comic book movies. The cinematography, the way shots are framed, the performances - its like an EC horror comic book come to life.
Creepshow was one of my earliest favorite horror movies as a kid. I would make my friends watch it in 5th grade. The Crate was my favorite other than Father's Day, shit is burned into my brain forever
In the 4th grade, we had to write 'a story' for school. Of course, everyone's was about bees and flowers and animals. My mom got phoned to see how things are going at home, as mine was called 'The Crate'.
Awesome re:View guys - I was hoping you'd do a video for it at some point! One thing about this movie that deserves a shout-out is that incredible poster artwork. Is was done by Joann Daley, who was responsible for a number of memorable movie posters from the 80's, including the one for Scanners. I still remember seeing that poster at the cinema almost 40 years ago - that wonderfully creepy painting of a living skeleton handing tickets over the counter got burned into my 8-year old self's brain, and I searched high and low for it every time we went to the video store. It became a regular rental for me and my brothers, and my Dad still quotes the movie every Father's Day when it's time for cake.
"Something to Tide You Over" gets goofy by the end but I've always found it legitimately upsetting and disturbing. The performances are SO perfect - especially Leslie Neilson - with the added campiness, the tone of the whole thing is nauseating. I love it so much.
My dad showed me this movie when I was like six, and I remember being really afraid of “Something to Tide You Over” and “the Crate.” I still remember how scared I was. Then, I watched it a few years ago as an adult, and I really loved how goofy and stylized it is. The funny thing was, even with how much I can appreciate and enjoy it now, I still got chills watching “Something to Tide You Over.”
This was on cable all the time back in the 80s. I did not remember George Romero tied to this project. Only Stephen King's name. Awesome collaboration. A pair of legends.
So the reason there are two zombie stories is because The Raft was supposed to be in this film (Which would've been amazing) but they couldn't do the shoot in time to make the film because the lake had frozen over, so they put Something to Tide You Over (With an ominous reference to what happened) as a quick zombie segment instead. I think it would've been creepier if they didn't come back as zombies and it just involved them drowning because that alone is disturbing.
One of my absolute favorite horror movies of all time. And even though there are no "good" guys in Father's Day, I can't help but love the zombie because he just sounds so happy to finally get his cake at the end.
One reason Creepshow was scary as a kid, was because I knew Ted Danson and Leslie Neilson from comedies and seeing them playing a "dramatic" role made it even scarier for me...
I’ve had maximum overdrive come up in various videos and real life conversations about 5 times in the last 4 days after not thinking or hearing about it for at least 10 years.
I remember seeing this when I was way too young and the part with the old man coming out of the grave scared the shit out of me for like a week. Almost as bad as the time I watched the Exorcist when I was like 8 years old and thought I was going to be possessed by the devil for the next month.
I always wonder what happens to the siblings after the old man finally got his cake. The fact that they left it open is great just because while you expect him to kill them, it is still terrifying just to imagine them witnessing the events and walking away with a lifetime of trauma.
Somehow I grew up on Creepshow 2 but have never seen Creepshow. I can still say "Thanks for the ride, lady" and my sister instantly knows what I'm referring to.
I had a really cheaply made copy of Creepshow on VHS, with poor audio. I found it in some cheap store and was so excited to get it. Watched it loads of times.
Aw, the hitchhiker story in Creepshow 2 is good! That ending scared the hell out of me as a kid, the way his face is all flat and gory. And of course the "ThAnKs fOr ThE RiDe LaDy!!!"
This blew my mind, only because it’s made me realize I’ve never seen the first Creepshow. I thought I saw em both as a kid, but seeing this I realize I’ve only seen the sequel.
"What's the matter, Mr. Pratt? Buuuuugs gotcha tongue?" Is one of my favorite movie quotes ever. I love that last story. Most of the movie is super quotable. "Where's my cake?!?" "If you don't panic....if you can hold your breath...."
Mario Bava's last shoot was filling in as second-unit director for Argento's _Inferno,_ especially memorable was that creepy sequence in the underwater room.
Adding some more Infos: Argento used to get midly annoyed everytime someone mentioned either Bava or Fulci (for different reason: Bava because "that's old" and Fulci because "he copies my style"). It was only when they was about to die he recognized the talent of each of them. Bava by offering him a collaboration for Inferno and producing his son Lamberto's early works and Fulci by codirecting and producing him. Better late then never but still, Argento was so full of himself for the better part of his career he couldn't even recognize two of his biggest influences (Fulci was an indirect influence, but still, he was for many years the anti-Argento, so they had been trying outsmarting each other for a long time).
I’ve only been watching RLM stuff since 2016, but even in that time from I feel like Josh had become much more comfortable in front of the camera. Re:View is really where he shines. I flat out don’t understand some of the hate I see towards him in the comments throughout RLM videos. I think he’s great!
That wonderful time of year again. A great intro to the season and about the horror anthology to end them all. Creepshow bathes in that EC horror atmosphere. Friggin' love this movie. I even have a soft spot for 2, least the Raft segment, and the dumb wooden warrior segment for no sane reason.
My favor part of Creepshow was the ghost/hallucination father who kept telling Geordie(sp?) the truth, who kept trying to save him but clearly gave up on him in death the way he probably gave up on him in life.
Paused this vid half way through because it seemed like a movie I'd want to watch, and boy was I not disappointed. Absolutely incredible, I loved the Jordy Verill short so much, Stephen King as a cross-eyed hick who can't do anything right is amazing, and the section with the apparition of his father was genuinely emotional with how Jordy has accepted his fate.
Very disappointed there was no discussion of the classic motion picture Creepshow 3. It's clearly a groundbreaking masterpiece in how to make an effective horror film.
I hope this is a reference to the Tales from the Dark side movie, which was originally slated to be Creepshow 3, and not that godawful direct-to-VHS film bearing the name.
Here's a fun fact that no one cares about: The guitarist/vocalist from Nile, Dallas Toler-Wade, fell asleep while watching Creepshow 2, and the ending credits theme got stuck in his head. He eventually wrote a Nile song called "Lashed to the Slave Stick" around the Creepshow melody circulating in his brain and later realized what he had done. Oops!
When I used to watch Creepshow on channel 11 in NY in the 80s and 90s, the E.G. Marshall segment was completely cut, the movie would end on The Crate then jump back into the frame story with Tom Atkins. I had no idea until many years later that the E.G. Marshall segment existed.
Creepshow was one of the first horror movies I watched - VHS from the video rental shop. Had a big impact on my horror education, from films through comics and TV, and made me appreciate the art of visual effects - such a great way to present a movie. Having grown up on all the British horror anthology films and stuff like Tales of the Unexpected and Hammer House of Horror, this was part of a great history of horror shorts, but with more gore, violence and swearing. Haven’t been able to get a physical copy in the UK for years (only on digital) for some reason, only Creepshow 2, which I’ve seen once, I think, and is not a patch on Creepshow. The humour and VFX still hold up well and sits nicely alongside the greats.
Next to "The Thing", this is my 2nd or 3rd top Horror movies. Thank you for this. *who else got messed up by the last story, "They're Creeping Up On You"? saw it when i was a kid, and fuuuuuuucked me up with bugs.
Thank you for this review! I saw this movie when it was released in theaters in 1982. As a 13 year old I was in awe over this picture. The Crate absolutely terrified me for months.
Tom Savini was spinning yarns to us at a convention once around 1990 or so, that one of his proudest experiences was actual police forensics people being called in to investigate the Creep from Creepshow. Apparently it had ended up in the inventory of some antique/curio shop and some customers were concerned that it was actual mummified human remains, and reported it to police. He loved that they had to perform diagnostics on it to prove it wasn't an actual corpse, but a sculpture of latex and rice crispies.
What a testament to your work. Someone couldn't tell if your special effects are real or not.
Someone call the Mythbusters plz
I used to live right by Tom Savini in Pittsburgh...I've moved to the opposite side of the city now. They painted a nice mural of him in his neighborhood (Bloomfield*)
It has eyeballs while the rest is rotted, isnt that a major indicator it isnt real??
@@AlexG1020 it's possible that the eyes may have been removed to repurpose on other effects.
One of Creepshow's editors was the late Pasquale "Patsy" Buba and my best friend, growing up, was his cousin. Patsy was nice enough to let his cousin and me stay at his guest house in the Hollywood Hills back in the 1990's. At the time, he was working with Al Pacino editing Looking For Richard and we got to watch him piece that film together. Actually, it was the first time he used an Avid machine instead of an editor's table.
Patsy edited or co-edited a ton of well known films, but he started with George Romeo in the 1970s. Hell, the house they shot a lot of Martin in was Patsy mother's house. He went on to edit Creepshow, Day of the Dead, Striking Distance, The Dark Half, Heat and Casino.
From Romero to Scorsese, that's a helluva journey.
Damn that's a good little string of movies to work on
Day of the Dead is my favorite of the Romeo zombie trilogy.
Amazing Props Editing Casino, Scorsese says the wise guys were RUSHING to tell all after how well GoodFellas did. The Book & Movie for Casino were being made at the same time, Unlike GF which was a hit book before becoming a movie. This helped explain why Casino'd story wasn't as smooth as GF, yet still has big all time movie moments.
Nice story, thanks for sharing!
Dude was a legend
Awesome story. I wonder what his take on Michael Mann is? I hear he’s a very difficult person to work with.
Watching Josh and Jay talk about spooky movies is like a comfort blanket to me, same with Rich and Mike talking TNG.
I want to see Mike talk about Ghost Adventures for an entire episode 🤣
@@sidrolf that entire episode might last an entire day
@@sidrolf yes, Mike should get his own show just to recap Ghost Adventures episodes to whichever bored RLM member he can find...
Please check out the podcast "With Gourley and Rust," a self-proclaimed cozy-cast where they do deep dive on various horror movie series and one offs. Very, very funny and just a wonderful experience overall.
Or Twin Peaks... shadow
I grew up in Bangor Maine and was used to seeing Stephen King randomly around town. One of my first memories of seeing him was in 1983 or so in Betts bookstore at the Bangor mall. He was a very creepy looking dude back then. He had long greasy hair, in his thirties and still wearing his high school letter jacket🤔. My mother pointed him out to 6 year old me "that's Stephen King" she said. She then grabbed me tight and said "don't go near him" as he looked that much of a freak.
The nineties on if you spotted him around town he looked/dressed like an ivy league English professor.
Strange to live in a city with a 30k population and have a famous author worh almost a billion dollars just putting around. He still hangs out in his house on West Broadway and owns a local radio station there.
Part of Creepshow 2 was filmed in Bangor, I think it might be an on-ramp they used for the Hitchhiker segment. My parents used to pass by it while they were filming, according to my mother who never shuts up about it.
I grew up in a town so small, my graduating class in high-school was 17 people. it was weird that Marylin Manson used to come by cause he had a friend that lived there. Last time I saw him was mid 2000s, and he was just really chill. Famous people probably like going to the middle of nowhere and not be bothered.
@@Puppies03b3eleyyMichaelJackson You're probably right. I'd rather go to small town instead of a big city any day of the week.
When the town drunk is also one of the most successful contemporary authors.
That's hilarious. The freakiness was totally lost on Boston University when they invited him to do a Halloween lecture back in 1986 when I was a freshman there. I managed to get tickets and the auditorium was sold out. He managed to break the rules immediately by pulling not one but two beers out of his blazer pockets and guzzling them during the talk, as well as lighting up a cigarette and joyfully puffing away on it. We rebellious college students loved it. There was also rapturous applause when he told a most disgusting joke about a bar bet that had a guy having to guzzle an entire spittoon of mucus - described in grotesque Stephen King detail. What a memory.
Throwback fun fact: the actress that plays Aunt Bedelia in 'Father's day' segment, was the creepy nurse/patient with sheers at the end of Exorcist III
I've been binging red letter media for about a month and a half now. You guys are getting me through a particularly tough chapter in my life where laughs have been few and far between. How can anyone hear Rich Evans laugh and not feel better?
Good luck to you.
You got this, man. Stay laughing and hanging with the RLM boys!
@Step In Fetch It what the fuck?
@Step In Fetch It “I’m in a cult.”
@Step In Fetch It i just want to know where the fuck you came from and why you decided this was the place for this.
Something to tide you over absolutely terrified me as a kid. The way they speak when they come back from the dead like their lungs are still full of water always stuck with me. This is definitely one of my favorite performances from Leslie Nielsen.
The Crate terrified me. I saw this at movie theater in 1982.
It's a great sounding effect, and rather similar sounding to the zombie demanding his father's day cake & again when Stephen King's turned full plant monster praying to get his aim right with the shotgun.
All the stories are horrific and torturous. Specially being buried up to neck for the tide to come in, and growing grass unstoppably all over your body, as well as a massive roach infestation.
Their voices and then the scene where he frantically locks the door, thinks they are gone, takes a deep breath, turns around and literally one step behind him they are there. Gave me so many nightmares as a kid that cheap effective jumpscare.
What about that green valvet tracksuit with the stripe on the arm? Fire
My father and I are estranged, I haven't seen him since I was 13, and a DVD of Creepshow was the last gift he ever gave me. I watched this bad boi probably like a hundred times
Freak. Repent of your sins and stop blaming your dad for all your mistakes. Christ will save you even now.
Just realized my family has been quoting "WHERE'S MY CAKE?" "I got my cake" at every birthday party as long as I've been alive and I never knew this was the reference lol
The Moss man segment has a touch of Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space" as well.
I'd go as far as to call it a ripoff
I wonder if Leslie Nielsen could have continued being in movies in serious roles but mainly as a villain. I mean he was genuinely creepy in Creepshow. Imagine him in Lethal Weapon.
He was a great all-rounder, was Leslie.
Leslie Nielsen started out as a villain because of his deep voice and he was a huge man. Like 6'5. He was a massive dude
Check out Day of the Animals. It's been ages since I've seen it but he played a pretty good villain to my memory.
I'm not sure anyone could take Nielsen seriously as a bad guy after Airplane/Police Squad/Naked Gun.
@@soulknife20 Would never have thought he was so tall. Just looked like someone of average height to me. Next time I watch Forbidden Planet, I'll try to look out for that.
Creepshow 2 is very uneven but The Raft is one of the scariest stories I've seen on screen. Blob monsters are scary as hell and being stranded on the water like that at the mercy of one is such a dire premise.
"Meteor shit!" must be one of the best lines in any horror film.
Oh yes… a great quote for many occasions
As a kid I would rewind that scene and watch it over and over, laughing hysterically.
@@09daniscoolme too!
Oh I remember watching it as a kid in the former USSR after it immediate collapse. Tone matched perfectly with a reality. Mossman and drowning stuck with me for decades.
Crate trivia: Fluffy's crate also showed up in an episode of _The Walking Dead,_ and a miniature version of it was seen in the _Creepshow_ series episode "The House of the Head." That crate really gets around! I'm afraid I'm going to wake up and see it next to my bed!
The geographical term "Antarctica" did not exist in 1834, the date on the crate. The terms in use at that time were "North Arctic" and "South Arctic," as pointed out by Dex Stanley in King's original short story. Dex also notices, stenciled on the _back_ of the crate, PAELLA/SANTIAGO/SAN FRANCISCO/CHICAGO/NEW YORK/HORLICKS. So explorers found Fluffy somewhere close to the South Pole, not close to Santa's Workshop, almost 100 years before the 1930 Miskatonic University expedition! Is it possible that Fluffy....is a shoggoth?
"The Crate" is alluded to in _Christine._ In that novel, Dennis Guilder is talking to Jimmy Sykes, the not-too-bright janitor at Darnell's Garage, after Will Darnell is killed by Christine. Jimmy tells Dennis that he's unemployed now that the garage is closed, but that maybe he can get a job as a janitor at nearby Horlicks University (where Arnie Cunningham's parents are both professors, btw) because "this other janitor, he disappeared, just took off or somethin'." Poor Mike.
The kids on "The Raft" in _Creepshow 2_ are all students of Horlicks U. Is the oil slick creature in that story....Fluffy? Like I said, is Fluffy a shoggoth? Was Jack the Ripper in fact a sixty-foot sea serpent from Scotland? Did I take this job for a quick buck?
Thanks for the Crate trivia! I didn't know it was an actual published short story and not just a story cooked up for the movie. I was always fascinated about the circumstances of the expedition since nothing is explained in the movie. I guess the details are almost as murky in the short story as well but even that little nugget was interesting to learn. It always got my imagination running wild when i tried to figure out what happened in antarctica in 1834.
Bullsh!t..or Not?
John snuck a miniature ashtray in that episode too!
The Walking Dead episode is the first one of the 5th season
"Fluffy" is supposed to be a Yeti. Hence the primate similarities
The lagoon monster in Creepshow 2 gave me a lifelong fear of deep, dark water.
Huh, it was an interactive encyclopedia CD-ROM game that did it for me.
You could fly around the world and visit different places, and one was the Amazon. So the screen quickly zoomed into a scene with half the frame above water and half the frame below water, and below the water was a GIGANTIC constricting snake (anaconda probably).
So I've always been wary of water when I can't see through it, regardless of whether it's deep.
*"I CAN HOLD MY BREATH...FOR A* **LOOOOOOOOOOOONG** *TIIIME!!!!"*
One of the best line deliveries in cinema history, imo
Then his face when the tide hits him 🤣🤣🤣
I love Leslie Nielsen in Creepshow! Probably one of his best performances.
@@interfusor I've always loved his performance in Creepshow.
Will never not hear the end of “Everything Went Black” when I hear that
@@3coldcapricorn227 Rip Trevor
Much like Creepshow and the ashtray, I've noticed that RedLetterMedia often hides a lifelike animatronic of Megacelebrity Rich Evans in the background.
See if you can spot him!
that's not the video... that's the reflection on your screen!
I look forward to your Halloween content every year, it is a warm bit of nostalgic comfort. Thanks dudes!
I was lucky enough to meet Adrienne Barbeau, back when she was touring and promoting her autobiography (circa 2006). During a Q&A, she remarked that her role in "CREEPSHOW" was her favorite film role. She was nice enough to sign my old DVD snapcase edition of "Creepshow" and she even wrote down her "barnyard animal" quote!
I remember my babysitter watching Creepshow 1 and 2 when I was super young and some of the stories kept me awake for a week lol. What a classic
Good ol times
Better than being creeped out by Troll…
Creepshow 2 is a bit hit and miss, but The Raft will always stand out as an amazing segment.
I have to concur. I saw Creepshow 2 when I was way too young, and the only part that I remembered for the rest of my life was The Raft. It freaked me out any time I went to a lake. I actually forgot it was from Creepshow 2 until a few years ago.
It was a really good short story too. King is nothing if not prolific. A lot of the short stories he wrote were not that memorable. The Raft was one that always stuck with me. The Long Walk and Survivor Type are a couple others that are etched into my brain.
Yes! I’ll watch creep show 2 just to see the Raft
@breadstickzzzzzzz true. I forgot about the hypothermia
@@johndotcom9648 I'll say Chief Wooden Head isn't all that bad though to get to the raft
One of my favorite films. What a way to start spooky season. I don't think it was very nice of you to shove Rich in a box so he could kill anyone who opens it though, that was a little excessive.
The Irish are giving you yanks st. Patrick's Day and Halloween..... you're welcome😆😆😆😆
The cake thing messed me up as a kid
@@anthonymullen6300 Halloween (or Samhain) most likely didn't start in Ireland, most believe it was Scotland or even England during the Pagan times.
@@anthonymullen6300 but other than that you're spot on, the Yanks steal EVERYTHING!
You made a funny there, a very original funny too
Thanks, Jay. That "CRINGE" moment is now in my go-to reaction folder.
I love that unique vocal modulation effect used for the old man zombie demanding his cake from everyone is used repeatedly later on, for both King after being fully turned into the plant beast & hoping aloud to get his suicide shot right, then again when Danson & the woman he'd slept with are water-logged zombies talking at Leslie while being shot at. It's a cool sounding effect.
I smiled so hard when I saw Norm in RLM.
Yeah me too, that interview is hilarious, just shit talking the whole event.
Or I guess not interview but guest hosting.
No offense but that sounds like some fuckin' commie gobbledegook.
"She fucking got cut by a sorcerer!"
Google ttying to cut off his rant about time traveling back to kill Hitler only to be hypnotized by his "beautiful blue eyes" has to be one of my favorite moments in the history of live streaming
The Crate is completely fine being that long. Anything featuring the goddess, Adrienne Barbeau, is worth the time.
I'd love to see a re:View of Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight. Hugely underrated movie. William Sadler, Jada Pinkett, Billy Zane...even Charles "Roger Rabbit" Fleischer. Fabulous music, great flick.
Yeah….. I didn’t think it was bad at all
The second one however? Terrible
@@lordrayden3045 there is no second movie.
@@centralmonkey420
There was a second tales from the crypt after demon knight
@@centralmonkey420 I think he's talking about Bordello Of Blood.
I'd die for a Re:View of Hammer films or the mentioned Amicus films. Get some Horror of Dracula, Vampire Lovers and Doctor Terrors House of Horrors! Peter Cushing is in all three.
Creepshow 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine. Can't wait for that discussion!
As someone born in the early 90s and would watch a lot of old sitcoms ans comedies on TV in my youth, it was surreal and thrilling to see not just Leslie Nielsen as such a surprisingly sinister creep, but then Ted Danson's character being killed in such a cruel manner, to then come back as a revenant to get his vengeance on said creep.
It was cool how he played Frank Drebin with a mostly straight face, yet as a villain in this movie he plays it up a good bit, and it still works very well.
Why? You should have been born earlier.
@@mikerodgers7620 Because get dabbed on, boomer.
Creepshow 2 has a special place in my heart. Used to work etail with this guy who I didn’t imagine I had anything in common with. Randomly one day he said “thanks for the ride lady” and long story short we’ve been friends since and I’ve been dating his cousin for years lmao
Yes Creepshow 2 is way more enjoyable - for me atleast - then this one. As a kid the raft freaked me out but I laughed really hard at "Thanks for the ride lady, thanks for the ride". 😂
It was hot trash.
Randomly, my mom or I will bring up or quote “ thanks for the ride lady.” Like, every few years lol
Not sure if someone has said this already, probably, but 3 years after Creepshow Tom Savini directed and did the special effects for a few episodes of Tales from the Darkside. The episode Halloween Candy features a fantastic little troll that looks very similar to Fluffy. It’s definitely one of the best episodes. This is probably the only place I can say this where anyone would care.
Back in the day my local video store guy (not block buster) told me ..man you've rented this so many times you could have bought the vhs 4 times.. I happily put my 2.99 on the counter and off I went on my bmx for another killer Saturday night pizza and creepshow..
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I loved the old horror comics when I was growing up. My parents refused to let me have them, so I had to steal them. (When they found out punishing me for stealing them didn't work, they gave in and started letting me buy them) Creepshow captured the feeling of those comics perfectly. To this day it's the only anthology, movie or series, that I've ever liked. Thanks for bringing back many old memories. I think I'll have to finally buy a copy now. 🎃👍
That's hilarious! Back in the early 80s my parents wouldn't let me have toy guns, so I was "forced" to steal one. They looked real back in the day, so I probably could have used it rob stores. Wonder how many people ended up in prison because their parents wouldn't let them enjoy simple things.
I also loved them as a kid. Except in my day it was the single-issue reprints that came out in the early '90s. The horror and sci-fi lines were both excellent.
I want a Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill remake with Rich Evans.
"Meteor AIDS!"
I'm not a monster who would ask you to go through all the terrible direct to video stuff but I'd love a re:view of the first two Hellraiser films whenever you have the time. That rebirth of Frank in the attic is one of my favourite pieces of practical effects and camera trickery.
The opening to Creepshow 2 was actually shot in my hometown and my dad ended up working crowd control for the shoot. It's not important just a kinda cool thing about my nowhere town.
Oh, is that the scene with the creep opening the mail van?
@@THEremiXFACTOR Yeah, they actually cover it in the Creepshow 2 re;view I didn't think they'd do lol
"In Praise of Shadows" did an excellent series on the golden age horror comics. Can't reccomend it enough!
I just want to thank Jay for knowing we needed this one October 1st. Bless. ✨💖
Creepshow was my gateway drug to horror films
The most fun you'll have being scared!
I just finished Creepshow for the first time because of this video and I want to say a BIG thank you! I loved it!! What a great blend of everything that makes horror movies shine, from the campy and funny to eerie and horrifying!
Check out "Tales from the Crypt" (1972) , "Screams of a Winters Night" (1979) and "House of the Dead" (1977?). Also check out the 1971 series "Night Gallery" .
It’s so interesting cause I’m not really a horror guy or Halloween person at all! But the Josh and Jay reviews are some of my favorites cause they have such a great dynamic and they’re both so knowledgeable about films!
oh man, that line from police squad is awesome. "Who are you and how did you get in here?!" "I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith."
I loved Police Squad. Just like Quiz Show, it's much better than Creepshow.
The first time my mom allowed me to pick a movie for my birthday party (at 10 years old), I chose Creepshow. I've loved it dearly since then and it will never cease to amaze me.
top quality mom.
@@KairuHakubi Indeed :)
Creepshow is more successful in capturing its comic book roots than the vast majority of officially licensed comic book movies. The cinematography, the way shots are framed, the performances - its like an EC horror comic book come to life.
Old Chief Wood'nhead will always be my favorite Creepshow short story.
I'm glad they mention the score. It's amazing.
Creepshow was one of my earliest favorite horror movies as a kid. I would make my friends watch it in 5th grade. The Crate was my favorite other than Father's Day, shit is burned into my brain forever
In the 4th grade, we had to write 'a story' for school. Of course, everyone's was about bees and flowers and animals. My mom got phoned to see how things are going at home, as mine was called 'The Crate'.
Growing up my local library had a copy of the comic and I would pour over it all the time. Loved it. I didn’t find out it was a movie until way later.
I was hoping they'd mention the comic, I actually like it a little better than the movie.
Awesome re:View guys - I was hoping you'd do a video for it at some point! One thing about this movie that deserves a shout-out is that incredible poster artwork. Is was done by Joann Daley, who was responsible for a number of memorable movie posters from the 80's, including the one for Scanners. I still remember seeing that poster at the cinema almost 40 years ago - that wonderfully creepy painting of a living skeleton handing tickets over the counter got burned into my 8-year old self's brain, and I searched high and low for it every time we went to the video store. It became a regular rental for me and my brothers, and my Dad still quotes the movie every Father's Day when it's time for cake.
"Something to Tide You Over" gets goofy by the end but I've always found it legitimately upsetting and disturbing. The performances are SO perfect - especially Leslie Neilson - with the added campiness, the tone of the whole thing is nauseating. I love it so much.
My dad showed me this movie when I was like six, and I remember being really afraid of “Something to Tide You Over” and “the Crate.” I still remember how scared I was.
Then, I watched it a few years ago as an adult, and I really loved how goofy and stylized it is. The funny thing was, even with how much I can appreciate and enjoy it now, I still got chills watching “Something to Tide You Over.”
Both of our dads showed us movies we were way too young to watch 😆
The shot where the skeleton roles behind King had me and my brother in stitches when this came out.
Brilliant choice. And you two need to give us the Halloween lowdown on "Jacob's Ladder" (you know it makes sense)
This was on cable all the time back in the 80s. I did not remember George Romero tied to this project. Only Stephen King's name. Awesome collaboration. A pair of legends.
I watched it endlessly on HBO as a kid 😃
Josh/Jay episodes are great. Love this movie.
This was a Father’s Day tradition with me and my dad, and now with me and my son.
So the reason there are two zombie stories is because The Raft was supposed to be in this film (Which would've been amazing) but they couldn't do the shoot in time to make the film because the lake had frozen over, so they put Something to Tide You Over (With an ominous reference to what happened) as a quick zombie segment instead. I think it would've been creepier if they didn't come back as zombies and it just involved them drowning because that alone is disturbing.
Jay it made me very happy to see you edited in a norm macdonald clip he was the best. Rip norm
One of my absolute favorite horror movies of all time. And even though there are no "good" guys in Father's Day, I can't help but love the zombie because he just sounds so happy to finally get his cake at the end.
One reason Creepshow was scary as a kid, was because I knew Ted Danson and Leslie Neilson from comedies and seeing them playing a "dramatic" role made it even scarier for me...
I’ve had maximum overdrive come up in various videos and real life conversations about 5 times in the last 4 days after not thinking or hearing about it for at least 10 years.
So ready! I love Halloween, and some of that as an adult is because Redlettermedia gives us such a delightful amount of videos.
I sent my Creepshow comic book to Stephen King when I was young and he signed it for me and sent it back. I later had Hal Holbrook sign it. :)
"Meteor sh*t!" That line of dialog will never not be funny.
I remember seeing this when I was way too young and the part with the old man coming out of the grave scared the shit out of me for like a week. Almost as bad as the time I watched the Exorcist when I was like 8 years old and thought I was going to be possessed by the devil for the next month.
I always wonder what happens to the siblings after the old man finally got his cake. The fact that they left it open is great just because while you expect him to kill them, it is still terrifying just to imagine them witnessing the events and walking away with a lifetime of trauma.
Somehow I grew up on Creepshow 2 but have never seen Creepshow. I can still say "Thanks for the ride, lady" and my sister instantly knows what I'm referring to.
Had Creepshow on VHS as a kid, it was a favourite! The theme tune and score still play in my head today, awesome stuff!
I had a really cheaply made copy of Creepshow on VHS, with poor audio. I found it in some cheap store and was so excited to get it. Watched it loads of times.
Aw, the hitchhiker story in Creepshow 2 is good! That ending scared the hell out of me as a kid, the way his face is all flat and gory. And of course the "ThAnKs fOr ThE RiDe LaDy!!!"
RLM is always quality>quantity and I absolutely love that. Makes each video a must see.
They never re-release stuff too, so you KNOW you are getting the hottest take ;)
This blew my mind, only because it’s made me realize I’ve never seen the first Creepshow. I thought I saw em both as a kid, but seeing this I realize I’ve only seen the sequel.
What a wonderful way to start spooky season! Also, Josh you have a great laugh!
The father's day zombie is one of my earliest memories as a kid. I have heard some people say it is too goofy, but it is awesome.
"What's the matter, Mr. Pratt? Buuuuugs gotcha tongue?" Is one of my favorite movie quotes ever. I love that last story.
Most of the movie is super quotable.
"Where's my cake?!?"
"If you don't panic....if you can hold your breath...."
Argento got the extreme colored lighting thing from Mario Bava. It's really an homage to Bava, who's kinda the original lurid italo horror director.
Mario Bava's last shoot was filling in as second-unit director for Argento's _Inferno,_ especially memorable was that creepy sequence in the underwater room.
Love that scene! Had no idea Bava was involved. Very cool!
Adding some more Infos: Argento used to get midly annoyed everytime someone mentioned either Bava or Fulci (for different reason: Bava because "that's old" and Fulci because "he copies my style"). It was only when they was about to die he recognized the talent of each of them. Bava by offering him a collaboration for Inferno and producing his son Lamberto's early works and Fulci by codirecting and producing him. Better late then never but still, Argento was so full of himself for the better part of his career he couldn't even recognize two of his biggest influences (Fulci was an indirect influence, but still, he was for many years the anti-Argento, so they had been trying outsmarting each other for a long time).
Happy to see Josh again, always a joy to have on camera!
One of my all-time favorite movies. So much style. So much substance. Just like *insert non-slick movie title here*
In seriousness, HOLD YOUR BREATH!
I can hold my breath for a loooooooong tiiiiiime!
@@murderbeam9614 gotta love Leslie Nelson, man…
I’ve only been watching RLM stuff since 2016, but even in that time from I feel like Josh had become much more comfortable in front of the camera. Re:View is really where he shines. I flat out don’t understand some of the hate I see towards him in the comments throughout RLM videos. I think he’s great!
That wonderful time of year again. A great intro to the season and about the horror anthology to end them all. Creepshow bathes in that EC horror atmosphere. Friggin' love this movie. I even have a soft spot for 2, least the Raft segment, and the dumb wooden warrior segment for no sane reason.
Jay saying “they were having technical issues” while a cricket chirps violently in the background is just perfect
My favor part of Creepshow was the ghost/hallucination father who kept telling Geordie(sp?) the truth, who kept trying to save him but clearly gave up on him in death the way he probably gave up on him in life.
Jordy*
Paused this vid half way through because it seemed like a movie I'd want to watch, and boy was I not disappointed. Absolutely incredible, I loved the Jordy Verill short so much, Stephen King as a cross-eyed hick who can't do anything right is amazing, and the section with the apparition of his father was genuinely emotional with how Jordy has accepted his fate.
This gives me hope for a Tales from The Darkside: The Movie re:view. Bang up job as always, gentlemen!
oh man u cut to one of my favorite norm mcdonald moments, i love u guys!
The raft in creepshow 2 and return of the living dead are the two scariest things that fucked me up as a kid.
Very disappointed there was no discussion of the classic motion picture Creepshow 3. It's clearly a groundbreaking masterpiece in how to make an effective horror film.
Hahaha very cool
I hope this is a reference to the Tales from the Dark side movie, which was originally slated to be Creepshow 3, and not that godawful direct-to-VHS film bearing the name.
Creepshow is always in the rotation for October movies.
“I… want… my… CAKE!” 🎂
I've wanted you guys to talk about this film for SO LONG! The absolute best way to start October!🎃
Ah gatta love October themed rlm. It's cool if you did this in September as I look at is as early halloween and I believe it's called spooktember.
Here's a fun fact that no one cares about:
The guitarist/vocalist from Nile, Dallas Toler-Wade, fell asleep while watching Creepshow 2, and the ending credits theme got stuck in his head. He eventually wrote a Nile song called "Lashed to the Slave Stick" around the Creepshow melody circulating in his brain and later realized what he had done. Oops!
The watery blood spilling from the gunshot wounds always got me. Yeesh.
We are truly blessed this Saturday Re View
When I used to watch Creepshow on channel 11 in NY in the 80s and 90s, the E.G. Marshall segment was completely cut, the movie would end on The Crate then jump back into the frame story with Tom Atkins. I had no idea until many years later that the E.G. Marshall segment existed.
She absolutely does say c*nt. The DVD I own has a bunch of deleted scenes from the movie, and the uncensored audio from that is one of them.
Creepshow was one of the first horror movies I watched - VHS from the video rental shop. Had a big impact on my horror education, from films through comics and TV, and made me appreciate the art of visual effects - such a great way to present a movie. Having grown up on all the British horror anthology films and stuff like Tales of the Unexpected and Hammer House of Horror, this was part of a great history of horror shorts, but with more gore, violence and swearing. Haven’t been able to get a physical copy in the UK for years (only on digital) for some reason, only Creepshow 2, which I’ve seen once, I think, and is not a patch on Creepshow. The humour and VFX still hold up well and sits nicely alongside the greats.
Next to "The Thing", this is my 2nd or 3rd top Horror movies. Thank you for this. *who else got messed up by the last story, "They're Creeping Up On You"? saw it when i was a kid, and fuuuuuuucked me up with bugs.
Thank you for this review! I saw this movie when it was released in theaters in 1982. As a 13 year old I was in awe over this picture. The Crate absolutely terrified me for months.