Excellent but underrated film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is a very scary movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. 6 is a good ratting. But this such a great movie that 6 is underrating it. I give it 9 out of 10. This is scarier then the first movie of Creep show. And the first movie of Creep show is very scary. Old chief wooden head is the best story one this movie. The second best would be The Hitchhiker. The third best story would the prologue story. And the fourth best story would The Raft. This movie has great story lines. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. If you like scary stories you will like this movie.

Waiting to see the new Creepshow comic book, a young boy arrives when The Creep drops them off and begins leafing through the book, reading three stories.The Good Stor(ies): Old Chief Wood'nhead-Running a general store in a drying up town, a man and his wife are presented with a special gift for their services. Immediately afterward, a group of punks decide to rob the store, leaving the couple for dead. The Indian sculpture in front of their store, Old Chief Wood'nhead, comes to life and tracks them down one-by-one. This wasn't bad, and is overall pretty decent. The special effects for the statue are excellent, applying a 'wooden' body-suit to make it move and act just like a wooden statue coming to life, having the stiffness that comes with a moving statue. It steals all the best scenes, especially the assault in the garage and inside the trailer park which are both quite suspenseful due to its presence. The kill scenes also show some verve, as we get attacks by a volley of arrows, a swipe to the head with an axe, and a pretty nasty scalping. On the downside, the story is predictable which ruins the experience a little as you know exactly what's going to happen exactly as it would be expected, playing out basically a routine slasher film with the statue as the killer. It's quite obviously going this route, though, and it makes for a fun time overall.The Raft-Heading out to an abandoned lake, a group of friends swim out to a raft floating in the middle for some relaxation. When a floating mass nearby takes an interest in them, they have to find a way to get away before it kills them all. The biggest thing with this one is that the blob in the lake is really cool. There is a lot of mystery surrounding it and you can't really tell how it's going to end. As great as the mystery is, the creature just looks like a black tarp floating in the water. The deaths are wildly over-the-top, as the blob eats through their flesh, leaving a mound of bloody bones and melted skin. It has a lot of great suspense, and the tension in the second half, where the creature begins to break through the holes in the wood is really creepy. The story moves along at a sharp pace, hardly ever slowing down and being really entertaining once it gets started. This is the segment that features the most satisfying ending and everyone gets their just desserts, featuring a twist that is the nearest the film ever gets to capturing any of the black humor that ran through the original. It's a really good story.The Hitchhiker-Running late from a tryst, a woman hits a hitchhiker accidentally with her car, but fearing the repercussions she takes off. As she struggles with herself for doing the deed, she encounters him repeatedly as she continues on looking for revenge for her actions. The most interesting thing here is how hard the woman fights against the hitchhiker. She runs him over with her car, runs over him and crushes him against trees continually. She does practically everything a human would really do in a similar situation, and it's quite fun to see them. The special effects in here did a very good job on the hitchhiker as every time you see him he's gradually gotten more and more mashed to pieces thanks to Louis Chiles repeatedly driving over him with her car until there is but a skeleton left. The longer it goes on, the more it becomes distorted and the more gruesome it becomes. However, the segment becomes so ludicrously overblown in the escalating wrecking of the car in attempts to dispose of the hitcher that it earns far more on the laugh scale than ever does for its scares. It might have been more interesting if they played up how the mangled hitchhiker could have been a figment of her imagination. That really could've been played up more rather than a few passing hints at it. Its biggest problem, though, is that it gets repetitive after a while and they could have cut this segment down to keep it fresh. It feels like it's doing the same thing over and over, and could've been trimmed down.The Bad Stor(ies): While all have their little problems, as a whole this one is decent enough. The biggest thing that these suffer from is an overall bored feeling. They aren't that original either, as there's been tons of stories out there with the same general plot as these and do it much better. Also quite hard to sit through is the wraparound segments, which are quite terrible, have nothing to do with the features being presented afterward, and have none of the style and wit of the previous entry. That also applies to the stories, but this one mainly suffers from the lack of creativity.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity and drug use.

Three stories are featured this time, two down from the original which might have been one too long. A cheap animated wraparound surrounds the stories and is a far cry from the original. 'Old Chief Wood'nhead' has an elderly couple (Kennedy & Dorothy Lamour) running a small town grocery store that is nearly bankrupt like the town. Outside the store is a life-size wooden Indian statue that comes to life to seek revenge on a gang of idiots who kill the old couple. The second story is 'The Raft' that tells of four teenagers who swim out to a barge in the middle of a lake and get trapped on it because of a black ooze floating in the water. The ooze graphically swallows and devours the group one by one. The final story is 'The Hitchhiker' which features cheating wife Anne Lansing (Chiles) returning home one night where she runs over a derelict (Wright) in the road killing him. She panics and leaves the scene battling with her conscience. Soon the dead hitchhiker begins appearing on the road and then everywhere she looks. This terror filled ride home has the hitchhiker attempting revenge on Anne until the very end. The stories are from Stephen King again and George A. Romero wrote the screenplays but directing chores went to Michael Gornick Romero's cinematographer on the original and other Romero films. Gornick does a decent job but the stories just aren't as good this time around. Where the original could have lost a story, this one could have added one. The three stories seem one shy of a full load. The cheap wraparound animation and simple sets make you wonder if there were budget issues because the production is surly lacking a big feel. The gore is decent and the stories are certainly watchable if not entirely compelling. As an anthology movie, Creepshow 2 can hold its own, but compared to the original it is a bit of a letdown.

A weak sequel directed by the first film's cinematographer and written by George Romero, based on stories by Stephen King. This anthology features three stories plus a linking story. The first story is "Old Chief Woodenhead." It's about a kindly old couple (George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour) who run a general store and are murdered by a long-haired Native American (Holt McCallany) and his friends. As they get ready to leave town, the wooden Indian outside the old couple's store comes to life and seeks revenge. This is an overlong, despicable mess of a story. What kind of sick person wants to see two old people, played by amiable veteran screen actors, murdered by some overacting punks? In addition to the disturbing subject matter, the piece is poorly written with some of the most inane dialogue ever and it just goes on for ages. That this was Lamour's final screen role is truly sad.The second segment is called "The Raft," about four teenagers who party at a remote lake. Some kind of blob monster traps them on a raft in the middle of the lake. This segment is probably the most famous of the three, if only for the unintended comedy that comes from the cheap-looking blob creature. It looks like the teens are stranded in the middle of this lake in fear for their lives from a tarp or trash bag. The kids are particularly unlikeable, by the way, so you look forward to seeing them all die.The third story is "The Hitchhiker," about a married woman (Lois Chiles) hurrying home after having banged some stud. She runs down a hitchhiker and does not stop to help him. However, it appears the hitchhiker will not stay dead as he continues to come after her all the way home. This is easily the best segment in the movie. Chiles' performance is great but again, the unintended laughs come into play. The way this guy keeps popping up and the damage that is inflicted to her car as she tries to get away from him is hilarious.The wraparound/linking segment is about a kid chased by bullies but he gets help from some giant flytrap plants he ordered from ads in Creepshow comics. It's a rather stupid story that is animated (poorly) because, one suspects, they wanted to save money. All in all, it's a watchable sequel that falls far short from matching the first film. The three segments have more unintended laughs going for them than anything else but that's better than nothing.