Plot:
The movie opens on night near Halloween. Stan, the father of the year, is yelling at his son for reading a filthy comic book. The kid retaliates by mentioning his dad’s collection of porn magazines. Well, the kid gets a taste of hand for his trouble. Stan throws the comic, Creepshow, out.
The kid is sulking in his room and angry that his comic book got trashed. Suddenly, a rotting corpse is floating outside the window. The kid isn’t disturbed at all by this. In fact, he gets a great big grin on his face. The Creepkeeper turns animated as the credits roll.
The first tale is “Father’s Day.” Rich white folks ensue: Aunt Sylvia, Richard, Cass, Hank. He is told about Aunt Bedelia who killed her father. Nathan, Bedelia’s father, was nursed by her. One day, she had found a boyfriend. The charming Nathan had the boyfriend murdered. She snapped and bashed his head in with an ashtray.
The family wasn’t bothered by it. They finally got their shares of Nathan’s estate. Every Father’s Day, Bedelia returns and pays her respects at Nathan’s grave.
A flashback shows Nathan demanding his cake when Bedelia snaps.
She is sitting at the grave and rages at him. Sylvia helped to hide the murder to make it look like an accident. Suddenly, a hand pops out of the ground. Zombie Nathan still wants his cake and strangles her.
Back at the house, Cass and Hank, her husband, are bringing down the funk in the only way early 80s disco danced to by white folks can. They are waiting for Bedelia to arrive for dinner.
Hank goes outside for a smoke break and then checks the creepy graveyard. He falls into a large hole and finds Bedelia’s body right beside him. A heavy tombstone falls and crushes his head. Zombie Nathan is on the move.
Cass, Richard, and Sylvia are still waiting. Sylvia will look for Hank, Cass’s husband. She heads through the kitchen and spots bloody footprints. The dead cook stops Sylvia when Zombie Nathan kills her.
Cass and Richard are left alone. She convinces him to look for her husband. They go through the kitchen and see the footprints. Zombie Nathan has Sylvia’s head decorated for his Father’s Day cake as the story ends.
The second story is the “Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.” A meteor crashes in a field beside Jordy’s house. Rushing out to it, he touches it. He fantasizes about selling the meteor to the college for big bucks. His fingers are starting to blister.
Deciding the meteor needs to be cooled off; he pours a bucket of water on it which causes the rock to spit apart. A strange blue liquid is dumped into the crater. Jordy goes back inside.
Watching some wrestling that has Vince McMahon announcing, he sees that the white blisters are now some sort green mold. He has another fantasy where the doctor will have to amputate the fingers.
Quickly growing green plants start growing all over the place.
Jordy keeps scratching as the mold keeps grows. Looking outside, he spots the plants outside.
Later, he readies bath. The ghost of Jordy’s father appears and warns him the plant wants the water. Jordy realizes he’s a dead man no mater what. Bathing Stephen King ensues. This is as close to Stephen King nude scene as any of the deviants would want.
In the morning, we see the plants have grown even more around the farm. Jordy is completely covered in the mold. He gets the shotgun, and hopes his luck is good for once. A blown head later, we see the plants are still growing and getting close to the nearby town of Castle Rock.
We get to see page of ads in the comic book with the order form cut out. We get the third tale “Something to Tide You Over.”
Harry Wentworth lets Richard in the house. Either they talk or Becky gets hurt. It turns out that Richard’s wife, Becky, was cheating with Harry. She just wants a divorce and will go off with Harry. However, Richard always keeps what belongs to him. He is a bit possessive.
Richard plays an audio tape of Becky pleading for Harry to save her. Harry threatens Richard. However, if something happens to him, Harry will never find Becky.
They drive to a private beach owned by Richard. They go a hole dug in the sandy beach. Richard draws a gun and has Harry get in it and cover himself with sand. By the time, it is over. Harry is up to his neck in sand.
Richard returns and sets up a television. The trapped Harry can see how Becky is buried up to her neck as the tide is coming in. There is a chance they might be able to survive and even escape. Harry will have to hold his breath as the waves crash against him. Becky cries for Harry.
Richard returns to his nearby mansion to watch the Harry and Becky broadcasts. He is getting a big kick out of his private snuff movies. Harry swears vengeance on him. Submerged Ted Danson ensues…
Later, Richard retrieves the television from the beach. He is positive the current pulled Harry to the ocean.
That night, Richard thinks he hears something. We see a guy skulking about the mansion. Showering Leslie Nielsen ensues.
The front door opens as we see shadows. Richard goes to investigate the noise carrying a gun. He opens the door and is shocked to see the decomposing corpses of Harry and Becky. Bullets are no use against them. They have a hole all ready for Richard.
He locks himself in the bathroom. How did the corpses manage to teleport in there? They grab the hysterical Richard.
On the beach, we see Richard buried up to his neck as the tide comes in, and the story ends.
The next story is the “Crate.” Mike the janitor discovers a mysterious crate under a set of stairs in the college science building.
At a faculty party, Wilma AKA Billie chews out her husband Henry. The drunken Billie is able to quickly offend everyone at the party.
Mike calls Professor Dexter, Henry’s friend, about the crate. It is from an 1834 Arctic expedition.
Henry fantasizes about giving Billie a lead transfusion directly to her forehead. Everyone at the party politely golf claps afterwards. The henpecked Henry is brought pack to reality by the screeching Billie.
Dexter and Mike see how tightly chained up the crate is. They carry it to the nearby lab to open it.
Billie has Henry clean the house. The thoroughly whipped Henry fantasizes about strangling her.
Finally, Mike and Dexter get the crate open. The janitor quickly sticks his hand in the crate. Unfortunately, the creature gets good taste for hand and arm. The ugly creature gets out and finishes off Mike as Dexter watches in disgust.
He runs out and into the returning Charlie, a graduate student.
The monster drags the crate back down the hallway under the staircase.
Charlie calms Dex down and will take a look for himself. Dexter is sure the blood will convince Charlie of everything. The grad student thinks that Dex pulled a Jason Voorhees on the janitor. The crate is gone.
Under the stairs, Charlie sees Mike’s body. While Dexter tries warning him, Charlie wants to get a better look, especially when the creature attacks and kills him.
Dexter runs off again and shock. This time, he gets to Henry’s house. Dexter rambles on with his incoherent story. He comes up with the idea of dropping the crate into the quarry. Henry spikes Dexter’s drink and locks him in the study. Henry goes into action.
Henry heads to the building where the creature is and finds the bloodstains on the floor.
Billie returns home.
Henry starts cleaning the blood up.
Billie finds a note written by Henry. It claims that Dexter has gotten into some trouble with a female grad student and attacked her. Henry needs Billie to help. She heads to the college as Henry finishes up his cleaning.
Henry hears her arrive in the building. He wants her to see how bad it is for herself, and he starts laughing. The girl is under the stairs and won’t come out. Henry gets Billie close enough and pushes her under the stairs trying to get the monster to eat her.
No monster attacks the shrew. Billie starts chewing Henry off again. Suddenly, the creature devours her.
Henry goes upstairs to get sick. Later, he returns to lock the chains on the crate.
Henry takes the crate out of the building and dropped it in the quarry.
The next morning, Dexter and Henry ponder what to do. Dexter won’t talk. As they start to play chess, they wonder what if it gets out of the crate. Henry is sure it will have drowned.
Cue the crate, the creature is quite alive and trapped.
The final tale is “They’re Creeping up on You.”
Upson Pratt, the germaphobic billionaire who makes Howard Hughes in his later years seem normal, removes his surgical mask. He lives in germ proof apartment and thoroughly despises bugs.
Upson somehow makes Montgomery Burns on the Simpsons seem like a caring man. Anyways, Upson has resumed his holy war to get rid of the roaches. Slowly, he stalks them down.
A woman whose husband committed suicide after Upson took over his company calls and is completely distraught. The closest Upson gets to an emotion is acting like he is playing a violin for his heart bleeds for her.
The bug-hating billionaire keeps finding more bugs in his apartment.
White, the building handyman, comes by. He is ordered to get the exterminators there soon or else.
Upson keeps ranting about how bugs keep crawling up on you if you don’t stop them.
The power starts to cuts out, and roaches start crawling out of the drain, vent, etc…Finally, the lights go out.
The roaches are everywhere. He calls the police who are busy and hang up on him. Police have robberies and things to be more worried about than crazy guys calling about roaches.
Upson learns that White is trapped in the elevator. More roaches flood the germ-proof apartment.
Upson gets in his emergency germ-fallout shelter and vows vengeance on the bugs.
Seeing the mattress pulsate, Upson learns the germ escape shelter is filled with roaches and seems to have a heart attack. The roaches swarm all over him.
The power comes back on. White tries to get Upson on the PA system to no avail.
We see Upson in the shelter. The roaches burrow out of him…
We return to the real world or as close to one not portrayed in a comic book. Two trashmen pick up the Creepshow comic book. They spot an ad for a voodoo doll that has been already used.
Stan is having breakfast. Apparently, he didn’t get much sleep and talks about pains in his neck.
Billy is up in his room using the genuine voodoo to get revenge for having his comic book tossed in the garbage.
