(The monster in the crate was nicknamed "Fluffy" by the film's director, George A. Hal Holbrook stars as pacifistic college professor Henry Northrup, who sees the creature as a way to rid himself of his drunk, emotionally abusive wife, Wilma. The Crate (Fourth story, adapted from a previously published short story)Ī mysterious, extremely lethal creature is unwittingly released from its crate in this suspenseful and gory monster story. They drown, but the tide somehow revives them as waterlogged zombies intent on getting revenge of their own. Richard Vickers, a coldblooded, wealthy husband, stages a terrible fate for his unfaithful wife, Becky (Gaylen Ross) and her lover, Harry Wentworth ( Ted Danson) by burying them up to their necks on the beach, below the high tide line. Something to Tide You Over (Third story, written by King expressly for the film) Stephen King himself plays the doomed protagonist in this darkly humorous story.
Instead, he finds himself being overcome by a rapidly spreading plant-like organism that comes off the meteorite. The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill (Second story, originally titled "Weeds", adapted from a previously published short story written by King)Ī dimwitted backwoods hillbilly farmer named Jordy Verrill thinks a newly discovered meteorite will provide enough money from the local college to pay off his $200 bank loan. Nathan Grantham comes back as a zombie-like creature to get the cake he never got, and kills off his relatives one by one. Third Sunday of June, seven years later, his ungrateful, money grubbing relatives get together for their annual dinner on Father's Day. Third Sunday of June, seven years ago, an elderly despicable patriarch named Nathan Grantham was killed on Father's Day when his daughter Bedelia (Viveca Lindfors) bashed him in the head with a marble ashtray as he screamed for his cake. As Billy sits upstairs hating his father, he hears a sound at the window, which turns out to be a ghostly apparition, beckoning him to come closer.Ĭhapters Father's Day (First story, written by King expressly for the film) He closes out the discussion with the reason why God made fathers: to protect their ways of life and their children. Later after he tosses the comic book away, Stan reminds his wife that he had to be hard on Billy because he can't believe all the "crap" that's in the book.
Stan also refers it as "such horror crap". His father tosses the comic in the garbage to teach Billy a lesson, but not before threatening to spank him should Billy ever get caught reading Creepshow comic books again. IntroductionĪ young boy named Billy gets yelled at and slapped by his father, Stan, for reading a horror comic titled Creepshow instead of doing his chores. Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film.
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