Took my mom to see this on Mother's Day in the theater. It started a tradition of watching horror movies on Mother's Day for her and I. Whenever I drop her off, she always tells me, "Thanks for the ride, lady."
The Raft stuck with me all through childhood. Every time I was out on a lake I thought the garbage bag monster would come up through the slats of wood.
Same here. It was so easy to imagine everything in that segment happening to you, while anywhere near water, especially as a child. Jay is also right when he said the worst part, that really screwed with me for a long time after I saw this movie as a youngster, was that they specifically note how painful it is being digested by it.
When I had sleepovers somebody would usually get under a blanket and pretend to be the monster (we called it the “oil slick”) who ate the others. Fun times…
I think the irony is that the animation moving all the time actually means that it is more expensive than a Saturday cartoon. The way you make animation cheap is to have still frames, parts that you can copy and paste effectively from frame to frame. The fact that they animated nearly every aspect of the frame and it still looks bad means that not only was it bad, but it was also expensive to produce.
@Game Gallows So looking further, it looks like I was slightly mistaken. It was more tedious because of the constant motion, but they also had very flat shading. So comparing a handful of drawings in Creepshow vs Creepshow 2, you can see that in Creepshow, a lot of the animations have deep shadows, in addition to that constant motion, giving a lot of depth and darkness to the animation. Of all the shots they showed in the re:view, nearly nothing in Creepshow 2 has shadows. It is all very flat and lacks depth. So even though it was expensive in one sense, it was very cheap in another, which is why I think it reminds them of Saturday Morning Cartoons, because those animated series were typically pumped out at such high volume that they couldn't afford the time to shade every frame and so it wasn't commonly left out to save money/time. As a result that flat look became a sort of style of the Saturday Morning cartoon, if unintentionally at least.
@@jakehr3 Put alongside the gold-standard of 1950-1960s Looney Tunes, it looks (and sounds) like crap. But then most animation does. If there's an opportunity to talk up Bugs Bunny, I will take it.
Yeah the lack of shading on the animation gives it the Saturday Morning look, but there's a lot of expressive movement to the characters. Its like they ordered Don Bluth from Wish.
@@ForwardSynthesis Funny thing with the studio which did the animation for those infamous CD-i Nintendo games is that they kept animating for games afterwards, and for each game they get noticeably better, I.M Meen is a step up over Hotel Mario, and if you look at that cancelled Warcraft point and click adventure, they animated and did the graphics for that, and it actually looks quite good. Pretty much a complete game and Blizzard cancelled it on a whim.
"Thanks for ride lady" is one of my favorite things in movie history. Ive been saying that line to people to decades and NOBODY has ever known what it was.
To me is as memorable as "I hear you're looking for Candyman, bitch" police lineup scene in the OG Candyman, one of those guys just says it in the most perfect way possible.
First time I saw that I was like 10 years old, and I watched the movie alone in the dark... The end where the car is sitting with no trace of any one around is such an ethereal moment for me it's hard to explain... Like those opening logos from an 80's movie where you feel like you are loving inside it for an instant.
@@bradleygarrod3871 that’s part of what made it so great was that people back then would come across the car and not know what happened. That black blob just eats everything organic and leaves no trace behind. It reminds me of an SCP Anomaly roaming freely before it gets contain by greater powers.
I saw The Raft segment on HBO when I was about 10 years old. Absolutely TERRIFIED me. I rediscovered the movie years later and forced myself to rewatch it to try to get over the lingering fear, but to this day I'm still low-key scared of lakes.
the fact that the Raft is all in daylight and is shot so straightforward and basic AND IS STILL creepy and effective is a testament. imagine someone with some flair in the directors chair
"Tales From the Darkside: the Movie" was actually *supposed* to be "Creepshow 3", but all the BTS/legal drama prevented it from officially being titled that. But for all intents and purposes, it really is the third part.
@@ZyxthePest Lover's vow was also adapted earlier in the Japanese horror anthology Kwaidan; both stories are based on the Japanese folk legend of Yuki Onna.
It truly amazes me how Mike can find a connection between any movie and Star Trek. I know he’s not in this video, but I just know he made a connection off camera
"So you know the raft in the movie, that raft was the same raft that Jordie used in River of Time which the extra played clandoop was in the background of the intro" -Mike probably "oh yeah the guy who played the kid stared in this obscure italian zombie movie which was lost and found in a cave in Zimbabwe" -Jay most likely "Haaaahahahaha" -International playboy superstar Rich Evans
The animation isn't cheap, it's actually the opposite problem. The animators were animating on 1's which makes it feel less like a cartoon and more oddly "fluid". But the problem is the animators went too crazy with all the things they could do with animating on 1's and instead of making a basic 2's animation like most people they got carried away with it. The only practical reason to animate on 1's is for slo-mo shots.
Yeah, it was a waste. They really needed to spend that budget better on more high quality elements. But I feel like they were just locked into rotoscoping and didn't have any flexibility.
I think when you're animating extremely fluid, it creates that uncanny effect where it all looks ugly as sin. There's a reason why you rely on static faces; not just for cost, but for convenience.
I'm not saying this as an insult, but RedLetterMedia doesn't cover animation very often, and it shows in how little they know about it. But yes, they poured way too much time and effort into that animation.
@@graveyardsmash2711 I wouldn't even blame RLM to much. People in general think animation is something "cheaper" than live action. And while it may be true in high budget CGI films. It's certainly not a cheap thing to develop. Especially in traditional 2D. People often criticize the fact that most animated films are in 3d. But there's a reason for that. It's more realistic to actually produce. Back in the day when The Incredibles was released it took 5+ years to make the film. But now the software is so updated we actually have the technology to make it easier. True fact: The reason Toy Story was a success was because 3D software animation software was so behind the times they could only animate plastic and fake models with no real fluent textures or physics. This is why the dog and liquids looked so underdeveloped. Butwe got absolutely exceeded expectations because they knew their limitations. They used what they had at the time to make a good movie with the technology they had. RLM is a part of an older generation. I don't think they were correct in assuming that "animation is cheaper than live action". But it's definitely frustrating to those who actually know what goes into animation.
So cool thing about Tales from the Darkside, my uncle (who passed before I was born), was one of it's editors, and before that he was the second-tier reviewer for the Village Voice, doing the foreign circuit as well as the seedier stuff coming out of Times Square. He was really intent on filmography and interested in the techniques coming out of horror in the 70s and because of that he was the first major film reviewer to give a positive review of Halloween, seeing it as 'the [Psycho] Shower Scene stretched to 2 hours'. Really interesting guy, a Jesuit who mostly hung out in theaters which also showed porn
I wonder if he knew Fran Lebowitz. She also did b-flim reviews for the village voice around that time. Crazy part is, her column was called Best of the Worst 😮
It’s not wild. Watch it again: it does look like a garbage bag or some kind of tarp. There are moments when you can tell they’re dragging it across the water and it kinda takes you away from the story a bit but it’s still great despite that.
I never post but felt compelled to this week. Been watching all of the Halloween specials from RLM again for the 50th time and they are so good. The John Carpenter ranking episodes are easily the thing the internet was made for. Great work as always :)
You should do Creepshow 3 on a best of the worst. There's gotta be 2 over direct to video anthology movies you could watch with it to get a theme going.
@@2HackFrauds Viral is just mediocre. There's a difference between humorously incompetent and just uninteresting. The movies has polish and is pretty much "normal," just not that good. I wouldn't put Thor 2 on best of the worst, yknow?
Thanks to The Hitchhiker, I always riff "Thanks for the ride, lady" when someone gets run over in a movie. The segment may run too damn long, but that line is quotable as hell.
I've had an illogical phobia of sea weed in water deeper than I can stand in since childhood. I was also allowed to watch this film as a child. There's probably a connection.
I had a childhood memory of a girl getting dissolved in a lake by a blob, while screaming "Help me, it hurts!" I thought I fucking dreamed it in a nightmare.
When I was about 9 or 10 I saw this on TV. I tuned in during one of the animated segments and thought it was a kids show, and then The Raft started. I learned quickly that it wasn't a kid's show.
Totally agree about The Raft my favorite segment of either movie. It’s so terrifying being stuck so close to safety. Literally right next to safe land and you are stuck frozen so scared to even get close to the water and try and save yourself.
Doesn’t come across on the screen but what used to get me was the situation of being practically nude all through the afternoon and chilly autumn night after a swim. You’d be frozen from temps alone and fear.
It’s scary how it’s somewhat intelligent with how it learned to ooze through the gaps in the floor boards and how it could turn into wave to grab something on the shore.
King's short stories were always stronger than his novels because they didn't give him enough time to fuck it up. The one I still think about nearly 20 years after reading it is "Autopsy Room 4", that story is so casually intense.
Absolutely. I read _Skeleton Crew_ and _Under the Dome_ back to back, and… wow, is King ever more cut out for short story writing than novels. I know many disagree, but… wow.
Hard agree. His short story collections are legendary. Skeleton Crew, The Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Everythings Eventual... I've probably read some of those stories dozens of times. His novels are of (ahem) varying quality.
@@lisah-p8474 - when a movie or a TV show or even another book has me totally invested but completely fucks up the ending I say "They Stephen King'd it". I don't think he ever knows where he's going with his novels and he has to force them to a sloppy conclusion most of the time.
Mike and Rich did their favorite Star Trek Next Generation episodes. It would be fun to see Jay and Josh favorite "Tales from the Crypt" episodes. For me there is too many, but it would be really fun to see a top 10 or something.
I'm the same age as the RLM guys, and I saw Creepshow 2 in '88 or so and loved it. I would always say "Thanks for the ride, lady!" Whenever I'd catch a ride with a friends mom to school or where ever.
The videos you guys put out have greatly influenced me over the years, so much so that I created an entire YT channel dedicated to favorite film: Waterworld (1995)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, just unlocked a bunch of memories I had long forgotten. My mom showed me that movie in 1993 when I was a little kid. That cat going into the mans throat has lived rent free in my brain for years.
My grand dad told me cats can really do that🤦🏿♂️ I was freaking 8 but loved horror....& That Fucked me up till this day. That & Hollween 3...when the kids mask turned into bugs. The ONLY thing that scared me😅😢😔
parents back then were insane XD my uncle was a huge action movies fan. everytime he rented one, he would gather us male cousins and we'd watch it together in his living room. robocop, predator, aliens..all that stuff. plus basically anything with chuck norris, charles bronson, clint eastwood. he and my father brought us to the cinema for Predator 2, Terminator 2, Total Recall...we were totally underage for those movies XD again..they were insane XD
The dvd cover used to freak me out so much as a kid I used to hide it so it would be out of sight. Then I watched it and it was pretty goofy to be honest except for the lake monster which made me scared of lakes for years.
My older brother had giant posters of this movie cover, the "Evil Dead" cover, and the Tar-Man from "Return of the Living Dead" up in his room when I was little. I suspect it was done largely to keep me out, because they TERRIFIED me to no end!
When I was younger I always watched the two Creepshow movies back to back. I always associated "the raft" with the first movie because of how good it was. I always forget it was from this movie.
As a kid, Chief Wooden Head was great to see and watch him get his revenge. As a kid, The Raft was so damn scary and made me terrified of what lurked beneath bodies of water. Not to mention, that black blob being able to turn into a wave and grab you. Genuinely horrifying stuff for a kid to watch!
"Venus fly traps. Giant Venua fly traps, they eat meat." Is still one of my favorite lines. I was young when I watched this and I saw it before the seeing the original. This may be blasphemy but I like this entry more than the first. It's funny that seeing The Hitchhiker now makes me think of I Know What You Did Last Summer. The Raft always stuck with me as a kid because I lived in an area where tar was washing up on the beach so watching that part always got to me. I like the animation because it reminded me of the Heavy Metal movie (at that age I had only seen the edited for tv version) and The Droids cartoon which came on Saturday mornings. I have watched Creepshow 3 and it is a mess.
The thing I love about Jay & Josh Re:Views is the same I love about Mike & Rich, the two of them are so in sync with their tastes that the enthusiasm is infectious
Blobs are just the scariest thing. There's no understanding them, or the danger they pose, until they're pulling people head first into drainpipes and melting everyone's flesh off.
I watched this movie when I was 5! Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes. I grew up in Michigan.....we have 11,000 inland lakes and 4 GREAT LAKES. U couldn't of seen a more terrifying story as a kid, in a worse place. I've seen 100's of lakes, floating docks, floating algae and large lake waves. I'm 38 and still cringe a bit every time I see floating algae.
Man I love that animation. I love it when animated characters are always moving, Josh. Cheap animation is when the just make one drawing of the character that they freeze and just animate the mouths and eyes.
The segment of "The Raft" absolutely scarred me as a kid. Even to this day, I can't comfortably go swimming in a lake. Any kind of murky water just freaks me out. I'm glad the hacks also enjoyed it as much as I did. To tell the truth, I forgot all about the other segments for years until I rewatched it as an adult, it had such a profound effect on me
About the song in the "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" clip in this episode: "The musical number "Wonderful Ways to Say No" was written by Academy Award-winning composer, Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, who also wrote the songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin." Dear lord.
I grew up less than a mile from where "The Raft" was shot. Everyone who swam in that lake got some kind of infection. Surprised they let the actors swim there. I'll keep the internet posted if any suspicious oil slicks appear.
@@rossdawgsbrokenspirit9038 E. coli. There were lots of free-range cattle around then (not so much today) and the lake collects runoff from a pretty large area. They still don't let people swim there. Although I'm not ruling out the involvement of car-sized amoebas.
Correction: In 1983, Corman sold New World to Larry Kupin, Harry E. Sloan and Larry A. Thompson for $16.5 million; the three new owners decided to take the company public. Corman retained the film library, while New World acquired home video rights to the releases. Because by 1984, he was going to start Millennium Pictures, but found out A LOT of the public couldn't spell Millennium, so he changed it to New Horizon while also starting Concorde as well. So Roger Corman had nothing to do with Creepshow 2 , it was the new owners of New World Pictures at that time.
Yes. Cecil from good bad flicks whenever talking about a new world movie from Cormans days uses the new logo from when corman left. So this is a common youtuber mistake. But it is a bit confusing I Agree. Corman was always making new labels. Not as bad as Charles band but still. People like me get very compelled about pointing our these mistakes.
@@jonnyshanon2103 He was SO CLOSE and SCREWED it up! But I love the No Swimming sign in the overgrowth:):) In Stephen King's short story of it, that didn't happen, he was just going crazy staring at the slick because it made people see beautiful colors! For the obvious reasons I prefer this ending a THOUSAND times more:)
I think this is the most I've ever disagreed with one of Josh's takes, which is to say, a little bit. I think the shitty animation is charming, it's so clearly a mark of its time. Perfect for Halloween time- goofy and spoOoOoOky all at once. Kind of. Edit: Oh I forgot, I also completely disagree with his statement that apartheid was justified. Other than that though, I tend to respect his opinions
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie has "Lover's Vow" which to this day might be my favorite story concept of all these movies. I saw it once as a kid and I remember it like I saw it just yesterday, and that says a lot.
Holt McCallany is the name of the actor who's been in all the David Fincher movies. A friend of mine worked with him and said he's a real nice guy and was really good to the crew. I had no idea he was in Creep Show 2!
I saw The Raft at a friend's place when I was in kindergarten, and up until this video, I didn't know what it was that I'd watched (I still remember wincing and trying to look away when the guy gets sucked through the raft). Needless to say, it scared the living crap out of me, but apparently it was just something my friend liked to watch at that age.
I watched the both creep show movies when I was 8 with my dad. I used to go to summer camp and, after I watched it, I remember every summer being so terrified of the algae. I would always try to stay in the top few feet of the water to avoid it at all costs.
I was born in 1981 and the Creepshow franchise is very special to me. These films were kinda my 1st experience with horror movies and I agree with Jay that the 'The Raft' was the best story of them all. The scene with the straight edge girl being sucked under and eaten while saying "Help it hurts" traumatized me a bit as a child and was the 1st time I remember being so scared of a movie I ran out of the room. I even had nightmares after watching Creepshow 2 for a few months and my parents put their foot down after that and kept me away from horror movies.........Until 1989 when they let me watch Pet Semetary with them and the scene with the dying sister Zelda and her twisted up back traumatized me all over again. I now have nostalgia overload for Creepshow, Creepshow 2, and Pet Semetary. They hold a very special place in my heart.
Wow I can't believe I finally found the movie watching a RLM Review. I have a core memory from being a kid watching the raft on someone's tv but have never been able to find it and didnt know what it was called. It made me terrified of things floating in the water for the longest time as a kid.
I am surprised that despite a mention of Cat's Eye, they don't seem to give it much regard. Aside from Creepshow, I've always felt its a better watch than Tales, Creepshow 2 and a lot of other anthologies. The strength of Quitters Inc. & The Ledge alone, and the batshit craziness of General, I dunno, I would have thought it would have registered with them a little more. Ah well. They are correct about The Raft, though. Its profoundly disturbing and easily the best of the three tales.
I loved Cat's Eye as a kid. Obviously my favorite entry was General as a child. Troll slaying magic cat that protects little girls?? Oh hell yeah!! Upon re-watch the other two are probably stronger segments. Quitters and Ledge are both well written and directed, but I still have a soft spot for General.
The Hitchhiker in Creepshow 2 was also in Dawn of the Dead. He was the black guy in the very beginning that was having the tv debate about the zombies.
Not to forget: The Hitch-Hiker segment is also inspired by Lucille Fletcher's story "The Hitch-Hiker". Highly recommend reading it - or listening to it, as it's a fantastic radio play. Very atmospheric!
I like the part where the guy decides to grope his dead friend's sleeping girlfriend after most of his friends are brutally killed by an evil tarp and they are both still in mortal danger. Who writes this stuff?
I think this movie is worth it for The Raft. I really loved that, it's just so extremely unsettling and has a very creepy feel even when it's just some kids on a lake.
The funny thing about the hitchiker story is that the guy playing the hitchhiker (Tom Wright) would go on to play another undead character in yet another horror anthology film Tales From The Hood!
I would like to see your take on "Quicksilver Highway" which has the worst anthology story in cinematic history, based on "The Body Politic" by Clive Barker. And the second worst; it makes "Two Evil Eyes" seem like a masterpiece.
Super late to the party but the beginning of this movie is right next to my grandparents house where I grew up. There's a Renny's there and other shops I spent so much time in. At the end when they are driving away their house will actually be on the right towards the end. When we watched these movies up in their house we immediately noticed it and its been cemented in my mind since. Great movies and great review!
@@AsiaDanceScene it's literally probably been 10 to 15 years since I last read, but if I remember it did a pulsating hypnotic pattern and he was getting drawn into it and I think that's how it just ended. I'm sure reading it again I would appreciate it a little more
@@cinemascarsit’s pretty grim in tone but basically that. Randy screams his lungs out and then after fantasising about rescue/shooting himself begins to wonder if focusing on the colours will make it less painful-if that’s what they are for. It just ends with the loons screaming, obviously implying Randy gets eaten. It’s less cinematic than the film but honestly I like it. It’s a…grimmer tone, though the irony of the false victory “ I beat you! I beat you!” And actually trying the “swim while it’s eating someone else” thing is cool and I like both endings for different reasons.
I LOVE The Raft section. I think it is basically perfect in every way. Lenght included. I read the novel as a kid when I was vacationing out on an island my family paddled to in a kayak in the middle of the archipelago. Only method of washing hair was to go swimming, haha, bad timing reading that. It always stuck with me, amazing short story, amazing film segment.
I misremembered the end of The Raft segment for years. I remember the guy getting out, getting in the car, and driving away thinking he's escaped until he looks in the rear-view mirror and sees the monster out of the water and catching up to the car.
The hair thing would be SO MUCH better if they never mentioned it. You notice the hair. You are interested in it: it's shiny. It's long. Not fully out of place, but "too nice" for a robber. Maybe a passing comment, like "have you seen these thugs? yes, such ruffians, but I be damned if I didn't envy his hair!" early enough to be a callback anchor....
i knew what the raft was when you said it. i have no memory of seeing this anthology but the second you said the words the raft i knew. the movie impacted me as a child in ways i will never understand.
"I don't know if anyone has written a book about this...all the movies that George Romero DIDN'T make." Maybe George Romero could write it and then never release it?
So I actually love Creepshow 2, and I LOVE you guys coming out to praise "The Raft" that segment absolutely stands out and the images from it have always stayed with me.
I cannot *believe* that Indian guy is the same guy from Mindhunter! I love that actor! Didn't realize I'd been watching him throughout my whole life. Very cool, veeeerrryy coool. (sorry, I really miss The Nerd Crew.)
It was genuinely the scariest story they had. Being stuck in the lake, dealing with the elements, and all while having to deal with this blob in the water that can literally melt you quickly. Then you discover it can turn into a wave to grab you.
the hitchhiker think reminds me of a quote i heard. can't remember the original source, but basically "it is easier to hate someone who has a just grievance against you than someone who has wronged you". the point is that it's the guilt that eats you and drives you to hate.
I remember learning about The Raft's when I was 12. Even just reading the summary on Wikipedia was enough to give me nightmares that I havent forgotten.
I love this movie. I think, even more than the first one. I like the first one, but this one- to me- is really bizarre in every aspect. It draws me in a lot more than the first one and that makes it unfrogettable to me. I saw this one as a kid and I have significant ties to it in my brain around what defined horror for me. The first one is cinematically and on the technical side a much better film, but this one is made in a way that feels like it finds it's connection to the comics its emulating much more closely. Which I think ties in to how bizarre this one is to me. I'll never forget when I saw The Raft as a kid. It was such a terrifying idea to me. As a kid that struggled with swimming it really played up everything that is actually scary about swimming in random bodies of water that connects to someone like me. Even the Hitch Hiker, which is super derivative of movies already made and a much better story from Twilight Zone, is super bizarre even with it being derivative because of the choices they made. And that always makes a much better impression with me than a solid film, with really great acting, and striking visuals because I can never forget how bizarre the ideas are for me. There are so many movies of this era like that for me because I saw them as a kid, and maybe for someone who didn't live at that time at that age and saw them that way maybe you won't see it like I do, but man this movie is so weird and I love it to this day.
I saw these much too young and it's The catchphrases that are rememberable. In Creepshow 1 it's "where's my cake" and in 2 it's "thanks for the ride lady" I had older brothers who'd let me watch horror movies when they baby sat. I also saw Confessions Of A Window Cleaner. lol
As a kid in the 90s, back when in my country there were only 5 tv channels, I watched this movie by chance one night when I was about 10. The next day in school everyone was talking about The Raft. Me and my classmates talked about it for weeks, and even made up a game similar to the floor is lava, but about the black blob in the lake. I was already into horror even back then and I was never easily scared (I watched Robocop and loved it when I was 5 or 6, which now I think it's insane, but I guess it was a different time?), but that story stuck to me for so long. I guess at some point I forgot where I watched it, I didn't even remember that it was part of an anthology, but I never forgot that story and how much of an impact it made on 10 year old me. I didn't realise until your last video that it was part of Creepshow (I've only watched the first one as an adult), and only now watching this video some memories came back of watching the rest of the movie. I guess it's time for a re-watch!
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Took my mom to see this on Mother's Day in the theater. It started a tradition of watching horror movies on Mother's Day for her and I. Whenever I drop her off, she always tells me, "Thanks for the ride, lady."
Amazing.
I love this 😁🖤.
Brill
That's beautiful man.
Your mom is awesome. Now I need to get my kids to do this for me one day.
The Raft stuck with me all through childhood. Every time I was out on a lake I thought the garbage bag monster would come up through the slats of wood.
It still yet may. 😢
Same here. It was so easy to imagine everything in that segment happening to you, while anywhere near water, especially as a child. Jay is also right when he said the worst part, that really screwed with me for a long time after I saw this movie as a youngster, was that they specifically note how painful it is being digested by it.
When I had sleepovers somebody would usually get under a blanket and pretend to be the monster (we called it the “oil slick”) who ate the others. Fun times…
Same!
The part where the lady comes back up from the goop and is practically a skeleton shared the shit out of me as a kid. It never left me.
I think the irony is that the animation moving all the time actually means that it is more expensive than a Saturday cartoon. The way you make animation cheap is to have still frames, parts that you can copy and paste effectively from frame to frame. The fact that they animated nearly every aspect of the frame and it still looks bad means that not only was it bad, but it was also expensive to produce.
It's like the Zelda and Mario game cutscenes for the CD-i console. There is definitely such a thing as over-animated.
@Game Gallows So looking further, it looks like I was slightly mistaken. It was more tedious because of the constant motion, but they also had very flat shading. So comparing a handful of drawings in Creepshow vs Creepshow 2, you can see that in Creepshow, a lot of the animations have deep shadows, in addition to that constant motion, giving a lot of depth and darkness to the animation. Of all the shots they showed in the re:view, nearly nothing in Creepshow 2 has shadows. It is all very flat and lacks depth. So even though it was expensive in one sense, it was very cheap in another, which is why I think it reminds them of Saturday Morning Cartoons, because those animated series were typically pumped out at such high volume that they couldn't afford the time to shade every frame and so it wasn't commonly left out to save money/time. As a result that flat look became a sort of style of the Saturday Morning cartoon, if unintentionally at least.
@@jakehr3 Put alongside the gold-standard of 1950-1960s Looney Tunes, it looks (and sounds) like crap. But then most animation does.
If there's an opportunity to talk up Bugs Bunny, I will take it.
Yeah the lack of shading on the animation gives it the Saturday Morning look, but there's a lot of expressive movement to the characters.
Its like they ordered Don Bluth from Wish.
@@ForwardSynthesis Funny thing with the studio which did the animation for those infamous CD-i Nintendo games is that they kept animating for games afterwards, and for each game they get noticeably better, I.M Meen is a step up over Hotel Mario, and if you look at that cancelled Warcraft point and click adventure, they animated and did the graphics for that, and it actually looks quite good. Pretty much a complete game and Blizzard cancelled it on a whim.
"Thanks for ride lady" is one of my favorite things in movie history. Ive been saying that line to people to decades and NOBODY has ever known what it was.
Keep at it. One day…
My mom and my aunt constantly quoted anytime they went somewhere
Yep, this is a quote me, my brother, and mother still use to this day.
To me is as memorable as "I hear you're looking for Candyman, bitch" police lineup scene in the OG Candyman, one of those guys just says it in the most perfect way possible.
Real ones know bruh, the real ones know. 💯 🍻📼
That fucking trash in the lake bit scarred me.
First time I saw that I was like 10 years old, and I watched the movie alone in the dark...
The end where the car is sitting with no trace of any one around is such an ethereal moment for me it's hard to explain...
Like those opening logos from an 80's movie where you feel like you are loving inside it for an instant.
@@bradleygarrod3871 that’s part of what made it so great was that people back then would come across the car and not know what happened.
That black blob just eats everything organic and leaves no trace behind.
It reminds me of an SCP Anomaly roaming freely before it gets contain by greater powers.
Binyot please
When I was a kid it was scary. When I saw it years later, I was nervous it was going to scare me again. It didn't.
same here.
I saw The Raft segment on HBO when I was about 10 years old. Absolutely TERRIFIED me. I rediscovered the movie years later and forced myself to rewatch it to try to get over the lingering fear, but to this day I'm still low-key scared of lakes.
My uncle took me to the drive-in to see this when I was like 8. I slept in my parents room for a week straight. The raft scared the fak outta me.
i saw it pretty young but i thought it was awesome. the end part jump scared me the first time.
the fact that the Raft is all in daylight and is shot so straightforward and basic AND IS STILL creepy and effective is a testament. imagine someone with some flair in the directors chair
Same! I'm pretty sure I was the same age. I totally forgot about it until this video and it still gives me the creeps
Jay covered for him on camera lol.
"Tales From the Darkside: the Movie" was actually *supposed* to be "Creepshow 3", but all the BTS/legal drama prevented it from officially being titled that. But for all intents and purposes, it really is the third part.
Lover's Vow is almost too good for any of these movies. Absolutely heartbreaking story.
Intensive purposes*
@@chrisdudley2016 No!
@@ZyxthePest Lover's vow was also adapted earlier in the Japanese horror anthology Kwaidan; both stories are based on the Japanese folk legend of Yuki Onna.
I remember the opening credits for darkside use to creep the hell out of me as a kid,hell they still do.
Tuvix crawls out from under Voyager and reaches toward Janeway with bloodied hand - "Thanks for the ride, lady!"
It truly amazes me how Mike can find a connection between any movie and Star Trek.
I know he’s not in this video, but I just know he made a connection off camera
It's not that amazing. Star Trek IS at the center of all things.
"So you know the raft in the movie, that raft was the same raft that Jordie used in River of Time which the extra played clandoop was in the background of the intro" -Mike probably "oh yeah the guy who played the kid stared in this obscure italian zombie movie which was lost and found in a cave in Zimbabwe" -Jay most likely "Haaaahahahaha" -International playboy superstar Rich Evans
Oh
Very cool
Mike would have refrenced Armus from Skin of Evil during The Raft segment
The animation isn't cheap, it's actually the opposite problem. The animators were animating on 1's which makes it feel less like a cartoon and more oddly "fluid". But the problem is the animators went too crazy with all the things they could do with animating on 1's and instead of making a basic 2's animation like most people they got carried away with it. The only practical reason to animate on 1's is for slo-mo shots.
Yeah, you can tell they were thinking “well if we’re gonna make another frame, we may as well get bang for the buck.”
Yeah, it was a waste. They really needed to spend that budget better on more high quality elements. But I feel like they were just locked into rotoscoping and didn't have any flexibility.
I think when you're animating extremely fluid, it creates that uncanny effect where it all looks ugly as sin. There's a reason why you rely on static faces; not just for cost, but for convenience.
I'm not saying this as an insult, but RedLetterMedia doesn't cover animation very often, and it shows in how little they know about it. But yes, they poured way too much time and effort into that animation.
@@graveyardsmash2711 I wouldn't even blame RLM to much. People in general think animation is something "cheaper" than live action. And while it may be true in high budget CGI films. It's certainly not a cheap thing to develop. Especially in traditional 2D. People often criticize the fact that most animated films are in 3d. But there's a reason for that. It's more realistic to actually produce. Back in the day when The Incredibles was released it took 5+ years to make the film. But now the software is so updated we actually have the technology to make it easier.
True fact: The reason Toy Story was a success was because 3D software animation software was so behind the times they could only animate plastic and fake models with no real fluent textures or physics. This is why the dog and liquids looked so underdeveloped. Butwe got absolutely exceeded expectations because they knew their limitations. They used what they had at the time to make a good movie with the technology they had. RLM is a part of an older generation. I don't think they were correct in assuming that "animation is cheaper than live action". But it's definitely frustrating to those who actually know what goes into animation.
So cool thing about Tales from the Darkside, my uncle (who passed before I was born), was one of it's editors, and before that he was the second-tier reviewer for the Village Voice, doing the foreign circuit as well as the seedier stuff coming out of Times Square. He was really intent on filmography and interested in the techniques coming out of horror in the 70s and because of that he was the first major film reviewer to give a positive review of Halloween, seeing it as 'the [Psycho] Shower Scene stretched to 2 hours'. Really interesting guy, a Jesuit who mostly hung out in theaters which also showed porn
I was just thinking about how my uncle is a wooden raft while watching this
Are you Nicolas Cage!?
Like the Jesuit order?
I wonder if he knew Fran Lebowitz. She also did b-flim reviews for the village voice around that time. Crazy part is, her column was called Best of the Worst 😮
“The Black Cauldron is scarier” damn right it’s scarier, the Horned King is terrifying!
No, he’s not. He’s bad ass
"It's a garbage bag in a lake. It's great!" is by far the greatest summation of Stephen King's work I've heard yet.
It’s not wild.
Watch it again: it does look like a garbage bag or some kind of tarp. There are moments when you can tell they’re dragging it across the water and it kinda takes you away from the story a bit but it’s still great despite that.
...Huh...
😂😂😅
I never post but felt compelled to this week. Been watching all of the Halloween specials from RLM again for the 50th time and they are so good. The John Carpenter ranking episodes are easily the thing the internet was made for. Great work as always :)
Do you remember when Jay murdered cats?
You should do Creepshow 3 on a best of the worst. There's gotta be 2 over direct to video anthology movies you could watch with it to get a theme going.
One of the VHS movies is the same level of awful. Viral maybe? And The ABC's of Death is notorious
They already did Scary or Die which is shit
@@2HackFrauds Viral is just mediocre. There's a difference between humorously incompetent and just uninteresting. The movies has polish and is pretty much "normal," just not that good. I wouldn't put Thor 2 on best of the worst, yknow?
Body bags was pretty shi. Cats eye, and 2 evil eyes are super solid anthologies.
I'm thinking pair it with up with "Screams of a winter night" and "Tales from the hood" or "Body bags"
Thanks to The Hitchhiker, I always riff "Thanks for the ride, lady" when someone gets run over in a movie. The segment may run too damn long, but that line is quotable as hell.
I still hop on my mom's windshield and say this line. over 30 years and hasn't gotten old...to me at least
@@jmstringfield gold
Thanks for the ride, lady is my fav line ever , espically when my girlfriends drive lol
I had to explain this line to a younger millennial. You can find the clip on RUclips and share it. They don’t know about these 80s horror anthologies.
The raft episode with the sludge monster is legit the scariest Creepshow short there is. Feeds on a natural fear of getting in the water and grabbed.
I've had an illogical phobia of sea weed in water deeper than I can stand in since childhood. I was also allowed to watch this film as a child. There's probably a connection.
IRL you have brain eating bacteria. I haven't been in a lake since 2007.
also you know, being digested alive and being conscious about it while it happens....
come on now. a trash bag monster is by no means the scariest this series has to offer.
I had a childhood memory of a girl getting dissolved in a lake by a blob, while screaming "Help me, it hurts!" I thought I fucking dreamed it in a nightmare.
It’s always satisfying to find out where clips from childhood are from, happens all the time lol
When I was about 9 or 10 I saw this on TV. I tuned in during one of the animated segments and thought it was a kids show, and then The Raft started. I learned quickly that it wasn't a kid's show.
Totally agree about The Raft my favorite segment of either movie. It’s so terrifying being stuck so close to safety. Literally right next to safe land and you are stuck frozen so scared to even get close to the water and try and save yourself.
Doesn’t come across on the screen but what used to get me was the situation of being practically nude all through the afternoon and chilly autumn night after a swim. You’d be frozen from temps alone and fear.
It’s scary how it’s somewhat intelligent with how it learned to ooze through the gaps in the floor boards and how it could turn into wave to grab something on the shore.
King's short stories were always stronger than his novels because they didn't give him enough time to fuck it up. The one I still think about nearly 20 years after reading it is "Autopsy Room 4", that story is so casually intense.
Is that the one where the guy is saved by his boner?
Absolutely. I read _Skeleton Crew_ and _Under the Dome_ back to back, and… wow, is King ever more cut out for short story writing than novels. I know many disagree, but… wow.
Hard agree. His short story collections are legendary. Skeleton Crew, The Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Everythings Eventual... I've probably read some of those stories dozens of times. His novels are of (ahem) varying quality.
@@lisah-p8474 - when a movie or a TV show or even another book has me totally invested but completely fucks up the ending I say "They Stephen King'd it". I don't think he ever knows where he's going with his novels and he has to force them to a sloppy conclusion most of the time.
@@jukeboxfandango he has stated in “On Writing” that almost all his ideas are what ifs and he goes from there
Mike and Rich did their favorite Star Trek Next Generation episodes. It would be fun to see Jay and Josh favorite "Tales from the Crypt" episodes. For me there is too many, but it would be really fun to see a top 10 or something.
It would be fun to see Jay and Josh do their favorite Star Trek TNG episodes.
I'd be down for that
That would be great!,
@@Tetragrammaton22 With Mike tied up and gagged in a corner, struggling to butt in.
I'm the same age as the RLM guys, and I saw Creepshow 2 in '88 or so and loved it. I would always say "Thanks for the ride, lady!" Whenever I'd catch a ride with a friends mom to school or where ever.
lol 🤣
I remember the Creepshow 2 and Evil Dead 2 as being the most iconic VHS covers in the video store horror section
House...
Hellraiser..
The videos you guys put out have greatly influenced me over the years, so much so that I created an entire YT channel dedicated to favorite film: Waterworld (1995)
@hd01 We like the pain
God bless!
Based
Wow, I thought you were kidding
You sir, are a raging psychopath. Never let anyone take that away from you...
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, just unlocked a bunch of memories I had long forgotten. My mom showed me that movie in 1993 when I was a little kid. That cat going into the mans throat has lived rent free in my brain for years.
@Vitor PR $bi
"That's impossible! I had a dead bead on him!"
That movie is unapologetically fucked up. It's great. Probably the most insane anthology horror ever made.
My grand dad told me cats can really do that🤦🏿♂️ I was freaking 8 but loved horror....& That Fucked me up till this day. That & Hollween 3...when the kids mask turned into bugs. The ONLY thing that scared me😅😢😔
parents back then were insane XD
my uncle was a huge action movies fan. everytime he rented one, he would gather us male cousins and we'd watch it together in his living room. robocop, predator, aliens..all that stuff. plus basically anything with chuck norris, charles bronson, clint eastwood. he and my father brought us to the cinema for Predator 2, Terminator 2, Total Recall...we were totally underage for those movies XD
again..they were insane XD
The dvd cover used to freak me out so much as a kid I used to hide it so it would be out of sight. Then I watched it and it was pretty goofy to be honest except for the lake monster which made me scared of lakes for years.
My older brother had giant posters of this movie cover, the "Evil Dead" cover, and the Tar-Man from "Return of the Living Dead" up in his room when I was little. I suspect it was done largely to keep me out, because they TERRIFIED me to no end!
You seem to be a real pussy, man
When I was younger I always watched the two Creepshow movies back to back. I always associated "the raft" with the first movie because of how good it was. I always forget it was from this movie.
I loved old chief wooden head as a kid and the hitchhiker absolutely terrified me
As a kid, Chief Wooden Head was great to see and watch him get his revenge.
As a kid, The Raft was so damn scary and made me terrified of what lurked beneath bodies of water. Not to mention, that black blob being able to turn into a wave and grab you.
Genuinely horrifying stuff for a kid to watch!
Honestly I feel like the raft is scarier as an adult because of the unknown aspect of it
"Venus fly traps. Giant Venua fly traps, they eat meat." Is still one of my favorite lines. I was young when I watched this and I saw it before the seeing the original. This may be blasphemy but I like this entry more than the first. It's funny that seeing The Hitchhiker now makes me think of I Know What You Did Last Summer. The Raft always stuck with me as a kid because I lived in an area where tar was washing up on the beach so watching that part always got to me. I like the animation because it reminded me of the Heavy Metal movie (at that age I had only seen the edited for tv version) and The Droids cartoon which came on Saturday mornings. I have watched Creepshow 3 and it is a mess.
The thing I love about Jay & Josh Re:Views is the same I love about Mike & Rich, the two of them are so in sync with their tastes that the enthusiasm is infectious
The voice of the Creep in Creepshow 2 was Joe Silver from David Cronenberg's Shivers and Rabid and the self described "lowest voice in show business"
The Blob segment lives in my head rent-free
Blobs are just the scariest thing. There's no understanding them, or the danger they pose, until they're pulling people head first into drainpipes and melting everyone's flesh off.
I'll never look at rafts the same way. Holy.
I watched this movie when I was 5! Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes. I grew up in Michigan.....we have 11,000 inland lakes and 4 GREAT LAKES. U couldn't of seen a more terrifying story as a kid, in a worse place. I've seen 100's of lakes, floating docks, floating algae and large lake waves. I'm 38 and still cringe a bit every time I see floating algae.
Man I love that animation. I love it when animated characters are always moving, Josh. Cheap animation is when the just make one drawing of the character that they freeze and just animate the mouths and eyes.
The segment of "The Raft" absolutely scarred me as a kid. Even to this day, I can't comfortably go swimming in a lake. Any kind of murky water just freaks me out. I'm glad the hacks also enjoyed it as much as I did. To tell the truth, I forgot all about the other segments for years until I rewatched it as an adult, it had such a profound effect on me
About the song in the "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" clip in this episode:
"The musical number "Wonderful Ways to Say No" was written by Academy Award-winning composer, Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, who also wrote the songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin."
Dear lord.
I grew up less than a mile from where "The Raft" was shot. Everyone who swam in that lake got some kind of infection. Surprised they let the actors swim there. I'll keep the internet posted if any suspicious oil slicks appear.
infection from what?!
@@rossdawgsbrokenspirit9038 E. coli. There were lots of free-range cattle around then (not so much today) and the lake collects runoff from a pretty large area. They still don't let people swim there. Although I'm not ruling out the involvement of car-sized amoebas.
@@OffScreen Thank you that is very interesting and provides a new dynamic to that scene now!
Correction: In 1983, Corman sold New World to Larry Kupin, Harry E. Sloan and Larry A. Thompson for $16.5 million; the three new owners decided to take the company public. Corman retained the film library, while New World acquired home video rights to the releases.
Because by 1984, he was going to start Millennium Pictures, but found out A LOT of the public couldn't spell Millennium, so he changed it to New Horizon while also starting Concorde as well.
So Roger Corman had nothing to do with Creepshow 2 , it was the new owners of New World Pictures at that time.
Yes. Cecil from good bad flicks whenever talking about a new world movie from Cormans days uses the new logo from when corman left. So this is a common youtuber mistake. But it is a bit confusing I Agree. Corman was always making new labels. Not as bad as Charles band but still. People like me get very compelled about pointing our these mistakes.
Exactly!!!
"The Raft" for the WIN...and that wraparound animation is fascinating and horrifying at the same time:)
Still pisses me off that he stops right along the shore line and yells "I BEAT YOU"
and then gets eaten by it.
@@jonnyshanon2103 He was SO CLOSE and SCREWED it up! But I love the No Swimming sign in the overgrowth:):) In Stephen King's short story of it, that didn't happen, he was just going crazy staring at the slick because it made people see beautiful colors! For the obvious reasons I prefer this ending a THOUSAND times more:)
@@jemofthe80s18 Deke's car sure had an amazing battery life.
@@jonnyshanon2103 It DID, going strong for HOW many hours?!
Mike shed a tear offscreen at that reference by Jay to Star Trek Voyager
6:47 Romero really loves corny dialogue repeated for dramatic effect. REALLY loves it.
Choke on em! Chooooke on em!!!
I think this is the most I've ever disagreed with one of Josh's takes, which is to say, a little bit. I think the shitty animation is charming, it's so clearly a mark of its time. Perfect for Halloween time- goofy and spoOoOoOky all at once. Kind of.
Edit: Oh I forgot, I also completely disagree with his statement that apartheid was justified. Other than that though, I tend to respect his opinions
I totally agree. The animation is very charmingly 80s. I love it. They were way too negative about it. That's why I don't watch this channel much lol.
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie has "Lover's Vow" which to this day might be my favorite story concept of all these movies. I saw it once as a kid and I remember it like I saw it just yesterday, and that says a lot.
Yes! I knew this had to be coming up soon. I have a special place in my heart for the Creepshow films. We need more anthology style horror flicks.
Yes we do
Agreed. They are my favorites.
Even the 3rd one?
Not so much, that one did not come from passion for the stories, it came across as just a half hearted cash grab.
The last good one I saw was Tales From The Hood.
Holt McCallany is the name of the actor who's been in all the David Fincher movies. A friend of mine worked with him and said he's a real nice guy and was really good to the crew. I had no idea he was in Creep Show 2!
I feel the same way about “The Raft” as Jay. I love those kinds of monster flicks like the 80s remake of The Blob.
I saw The Raft at a friend's place when I was in kindergarten, and up until this video, I didn't know what it was that I'd watched (I still remember wincing and trying to look away when the guy gets sucked through the raft). Needless to say, it scared the living crap out of me, but apparently it was just something my friend liked to watch at that age.
I'm almost 40 and watched this when it hit the VHS rental place.
I still have nightmares about The Raft.
I watched the both creep show movies when I was 8 with my dad. I used to go to summer camp and, after I watched it, I remember every summer being so terrified of the algae. I would always try to stay in the top few feet of the water to avoid it at all costs.
I’m so glad Jay praised the concept of The Raft. That part FUCKED ME UP as a kid. I hear people talk down about Creepshow 2 but I LOVE that segment.
George Kennedy was around 61-62 years old during the production of Creepshow 2.
Would love to see a Review for Halloween 3 Season of the Witch
*_Happy, happy, Halloween, Halloween! Happy, Happy, Halloween, Silver Shamrock!_*
I was born in 1981 and the Creepshow franchise is very special to me. These films were kinda my 1st experience with horror movies and I agree with Jay that the 'The Raft' was the best story of them all. The scene with the straight edge girl being sucked under and eaten while saying "Help it hurts" traumatized me a bit as a child and was the 1st time I remember being so scared of a movie I ran out of the room. I even had nightmares after watching Creepshow 2 for a few months and my parents put their foot down after that and kept me away from horror movies.........Until 1989 when they let me watch Pet Semetary with them and the scene with the dying sister Zelda and her twisted up back traumatized me all over again. I now have nostalgia overload for Creepshow, Creepshow 2, and Pet Semetary. They hold a very special place in my heart.
Wow I can't believe I finally found the movie watching a RLM Review. I have a core memory from being a kid watching the raft on someone's tv but have never been able to find it and didnt know what it was called. It made me terrified of things floating in the water for the longest time as a kid.
The Raft... man that scared the hell out of me as a kid. Didn't help that I slept on a waterbed...
For the last 30+ years, "Thanks for the ride, lady", has been a sarcastic inside joke for me & my brother. Thanks fellas!
I am surprised that despite a mention of Cat's Eye, they don't seem to give it much regard. Aside from Creepshow, I've always felt its a better watch than Tales, Creepshow 2 and a lot of other anthologies.
The strength of Quitters Inc. & The Ledge alone, and the batshit craziness of General, I dunno, I would have thought it would have registered with them a little more. Ah well.
They are correct about The Raft, though. Its profoundly disturbing and easily the best of the three tales.
I loved Cat's Eye as a kid. Obviously my favorite entry was General as a child. Troll slaying magic cat that protects little girls?? Oh hell yeah!! Upon re-watch the other two are probably stronger segments. Quitters and Ledge are both well written and directed, but I still have a soft spot for General.
The Hitchhiker in Creepshow 2 was also in Dawn of the Dead. He was the black guy in the very beginning that was having the tv debate about the zombies.
“Here he is in brown face…getting scalped” lmao
If Mike had edited this episode you know he would have spliced in Rich Evans at 19:34
Not to forget: The Hitch-Hiker segment is also inspired by Lucille Fletcher's story "The Hitch-Hiker". Highly recommend reading it - or listening to it, as it's a fantastic radio play. Very atmospheric!
It´s sad to say, but you are my best companion during my depression. Happy Halloween to everyone!
The Hitchhiker is an OLD story. There’s actually a creepier version of it made for radio on the Arch Oboler show.
I like the part where the guy decides to grope his dead friend's sleeping girlfriend after most of his friends are brutally killed by an evil tarp and they are both still in mortal danger.
Who writes this stuff?
Don't read It.
the Raft stuck with me from being a 12 year old, up until now... and is still floating around in my brain.
I think this movie is worth it for The Raft. I really loved that, it's just so extremely unsettling and has a very creepy feel even when it's just some kids on a lake.
The funny thing about the hitchiker story is that the guy playing the hitchhiker (Tom Wright) would go on to play another undead character in yet another horror anthology film Tales From The Hood!
Maybe it's just because of my age at the time this came out, but I love the cheesy animation. It adds to the movie for me
I would like to see your take on "Quicksilver Highway" which has the worst anthology story in cinematic history, based on "The Body Politic" by Clive Barker. And the second worst; it makes "Two Evil Eyes" seem like a masterpiece.
I am fairly sure I've not actually seen the movie in its entirety, but my child brain has The Raft burned into it.
Super late to the party but the beginning of this movie is right next to my grandparents house where I grew up. There's a Renny's there and other shops I spent so much time in. At the end when they are driving away their house will actually be on the right towards the end. When we watched these movies up in their house we immediately noticed it and its been cemented in my mind since. Great movies and great review!
The Raft is a rare instance where the movie had a better ending than the book.
I like the book ending too, because it answers the question of how something that exists in the water could continue to feed
@@AsiaDanceScene it's literally probably been 10 to 15 years since I last read, but if I remember it did a pulsating hypnotic pattern and he was getting drawn into it and I think that's how it just ended. I'm sure reading it again I would appreciate it a little more
@@cinemascarsit’s pretty grim in tone but basically that. Randy screams his lungs out and then after fantasising about rescue/shooting himself begins to wonder if focusing on the colours will make it less painful-if that’s what they are for. It just ends with the loons screaming, obviously implying Randy gets eaten. It’s less cinematic than the film but honestly I like it. It’s a…grimmer tone, though the irony of the false victory “ I beat you! I beat you!” And actually trying the “swim while it’s eating someone else” thing is cool and I like both endings for different reasons.
Love how excited Jay is at 7:26 when he realises Josh is talking about the all stars
RLM needs to start selling Jay's button up on their merch store, i want it.
The opening to Creepshow 2 was filmed a town over from my hometown
The Raft always stuck with me after watching it as a kid at a friend's house. So horrifying, and also, it had bewbs.
I LOVE The Raft section. I think it is basically perfect in every way. Lenght included. I read the novel as a kid when I was vacationing out on an island my family paddled to in a kayak in the middle of the archipelago. Only method of washing hair was to go swimming, haha, bad timing reading that. It always stuck with me, amazing short story, amazing film segment.
Halloween Re:View episodes are all that keep me hanging on anymore.
Nothing matters anymore
24:45 - couldn't find the tech to do it! They drew sparkly stars on it REALLY small.
2 seconds of Naked Gun 2 1/2 and I'm laughing, so good.
I misremembered the end of The Raft segment for years. I remember the guy getting out, getting in the car, and driving away thinking he's escaped until he looks in the rear-view mirror and sees the monster out of the water and catching up to the car.
Haven't seen any Creepshow's, but here to give the fam my part of the ad revenue so Rich Evans can continue to afford his treatment for diabetes.
The hair thing would be SO MUCH better if they never mentioned it. You notice the hair. You are interested in it: it's shiny. It's long. Not fully out of place, but "too nice" for a robber. Maybe a passing comment, like "have you seen these thugs? yes, such ruffians, but I be damned if I didn't envy his hair!" early enough to be a callback anchor....
i knew what the raft was when you said it. i have no memory of seeing this anthology but the second you said the words the raft i knew. the movie impacted me as a child in ways i will never understand.
"I don't know if anyone has written a book about this...all the movies that George Romero DIDN'T make." Maybe George Romero could write it and then never release it?
So I actually love Creepshow 2, and I LOVE you guys coming out to praise "The Raft" that segment absolutely stands out and the images from it have always stayed with me.
I cannot *believe* that Indian guy is the same guy from Mindhunter! I love that actor! Didn't realize I'd been watching him throughout my whole life. Very cool, veeeerrryy coool. (sorry, I really miss The Nerd Crew.)
19:44 can’t believe they got THE Rich Evans for creepshow 2
The ironic thing is that the same guy oversaw the animation on both CREEPSHOW and CREEPSHOW 2...Rick Catizone
I loved Creep Show II so much as a kid, I never saw the first one till I was in my thirties. This just makes me happy.
I saw both the films when i was younger, The Raft is the only one that has stuck in my memory all the way to my 40s
Jay coming in clutch with the Star Trek trivia
like how josh's SONIC YOUTH shirt just obscures to SOOY
The Raft had me creeped out whenever something in a lake would touch my leg for years after watching Creepshow 2. Such a great story.
It was genuinely the scariest story they had.
Being stuck in the lake, dealing with the elements, and all while having to deal with this blob in the water that can literally melt you quickly.
Then you discover it can turn into a wave to grab you.
the hitchhiker think reminds me of a quote i heard. can't remember the original source, but basically "it is easier to hate someone who has a just grievance against you than someone who has wronged you". the point is that it's the guilt that eats you and drives you to hate.
Lois Chiles is the only actor who turns in an actual performance in this. She's great.
I remember learning about The Raft's when I was 12.
Even just reading the summary on Wikipedia was enough to give me nightmares that I havent forgotten.
I love this movie. I think, even more than the first one. I like the first one, but this one- to me- is really bizarre in every aspect. It draws me in a lot more than the first one and that makes it unfrogettable to me.
I saw this one as a kid and I have significant ties to it in my brain around what defined horror for me.
The first one is cinematically and on the technical side a much better film, but this one is made in a way that feels like it finds it's connection to the comics its emulating much more closely. Which I think ties in to how bizarre this one is to me.
I'll never forget when I saw The Raft as a kid. It was such a terrifying idea to me. As a kid that struggled with swimming it really played up everything that is actually scary about swimming in random bodies of water that connects to someone like me.
Even the Hitch Hiker, which is super derivative of movies already made and a much better story from Twilight Zone, is super bizarre even with it being derivative because of the choices they made. And that always makes a much better impression with me than a solid film, with really great acting, and striking visuals because I can never forget how bizarre the ideas are for me. There are so many movies of this era like that for me because I saw them as a kid, and maybe for someone who didn't live at that time at that age and saw them that way maybe you won't see it like I do, but man this movie is so weird and I love it to this day.
I saw these much too young and it's The catchphrases that are rememberable. In Creepshow 1 it's "where's my cake" and in 2 it's "thanks for the ride lady"
I had older brothers who'd let me watch horror movies when they baby sat. I also saw Confessions Of A Window Cleaner. lol
As a kid in the 90s, back when in my country there were only 5 tv channels, I watched this movie by chance one night when I was about 10. The next day in school everyone was talking about The Raft. Me and my classmates talked about it for weeks, and even made up a game similar to the floor is lava, but about the black blob in the lake.
I was already into horror even back then and I was never easily scared (I watched Robocop and loved it when I was 5 or 6, which now I think it's insane, but I guess it was a different time?), but that story stuck to me for so long. I guess at some point I forgot where I watched it, I didn't even remember that it was part of an anthology, but I never forgot that story and how much of an impact it made on 10 year old me. I didn't realise until your last video that it was part of Creepshow (I've only watched the first one as an adult), and only now watching this video some memories came back of watching the rest of the movie. I guess it's time for a re-watch!
i felt sorry for the duck more than the dumb teenagers lol