"Not so scary movie,but still,check Tom Savini's make-up in this movie..."
--- WEBMASTER
Plot:
This is a classic fun horror picture based on the EC horror comics, which Romero is a fan of. Decent cast
(Ed Harris, AdrienneBarbeau, Leslie Nielson and Hal Holbrook) all work well within the creepy stories
(some better than others) and Tom Savini's make-up has never been better
The first tale titled "Fathers Day" has wealthy descendants of an old man returning to their home for a
reunion in the father's memory. The old rotting bastard rises from the grave and twists a neck, crushes a
person with a tombstone and and puts a head on a cake (I want my cake you bitch!).A nice opener.
The next tale titled "The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verril" stars Stephen King as a moronic hick who
discovers a landed meteor and he foolishly picks it up and carries it home. The meteor eventually covers
Jordie's place with green growth and it covers over his whole body as well. Jordy, now a mess of green
grasslike shit gets a shot-gun and shreds his skull (this scene is not gory by the way).
"The Crate" is probably one of the best as it has a man who is fed up with his wife. One evening while at
work he discovers a crate under a set of stairs and gets the caretaker to open it up. The man then uses the
thing to devour people he detests including his wife. Finally he throws the crate over a cliff and the monster
escapes when the crate smashes and hits the ground. Every jerk-off the man wants dead dies in this
(except for the janitor, that poor bastard!). This tale has the true comicbook/black humor as every time a
person is devoured the screen flashes and turns red and the music blurts out loudly. Tom Savini's gore
effects stand out in this one as the monster takes big bites out of people.
happens in this at the end. This one has a man getting revenge on his wife and her lover by burying them
neck up in the sand on a beach. The tide eventually comes in and drowns the two. Later on the two
zombies of the former dead couple come back to do the exact same to the man that did it to them.
Finally we have "They're Creeping Up On You" a great skin crawling story which has a clean freak old man
who is a wealthy tycoon residing in his spotless white asylum like dwelling. Further throughout the story
cockroaches seem to be appearing more frequently and in larger amounts. The crazy old coot starts going
A-wall as he hysterically sprays repellent to ward off the insects.
Cast and Crew:
Directed by:
George A. Romero
Ed Harris
Adrienne
Barbeau
Leslie Nielson
Hal Holbrook
and House of Horrors homepage.
