Creepshow
George A Romero teams up with Stephen king to give a terrific anthology film based on EC comics. Anyone familiar with the earlier Uk efforts Vault of Horror and Tales from the crypt or the now infamous comics on which they are all based should get the gist but I'm sure everyone here already knows that. I really love this and its sequel and the stories are mostly pretty damned good.
Its got a terrific cast including Ed Harris, Adrienne Barbeau and Hal Holbrook as well as a surprisingly good turn from King himself as Jody Verill, a low IQ petrol station owner who finds a meteor that's both tragic and actually pretty funny.
Creepshow 2
Not as many stories here but they are all gold including George Kennedy as the kind hearted store owner who gets avenged by old chief wooden top, the absolute classic The Raft as well as some terrific black comedy in the hitch hiker. The animated interludes are well done and the film feels admittedly better paced than the first.
Knife for the ladies
A frontier town is beset by a serial killer in a film that's no were near as sleazy and nasty as promised. It's still a fun film in its own right but these days feels tame. Nice to see a western horror once in a while though I still recommend Bone Tomahawk that I championed last year.
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