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Neither movie has a GREAT script, but I think the original does a much better job camouflaging its flaws. Add in Romero's superior visual presentation of the material, and I found this one seriously lacking in comparison.

Although if I had to defend horror on Geraldo or something, I wouldn't see anything wrong with playing up the 'morality tale' angle (eye of the beholder, right?) while leaving out my doubts of their authenticity in that regard.įrom what I recall, the original was also half an hour longer so it was not only more varied in content but also felt more substantive despite two additional stories. Personally I think anything deeper was a happy accident. Sex and drugs were likely a common theme either due to writers wanting the teens to be as accurate and believable as possible (remembering how my brother and his friends were, I'd say they were mostly successful at that.) or were simply included as standard, time-tested exploitation elements. I think it's just a matter of horror catering to its largest demographic.teens, with primarily teen casts, most of whom have to die. In fact, the 1980s horror filmmakers strike me as guys who were probably more interested in partaking in the activities themselves than messaging about them. They could function as one, something that should've been mentioned more often back when horror was coming under fire, but I don't think it was ever on purpose. I never saw The Raft, or really any 80s horror film, as a morality tale. That animated crap that even as a ten year old I thought looked like shit. Unfortunately, that is what I most associate with part 2. Well, you'd also to replace its wraparound segment with one as bad as what we get here. As much as I like the first there is no combination of 3 stories from it that wouldn't leave about as underwhelmed. It kinda makes them feel less substantial. I think part of the reason for their rather lackluster rep is there only being 3 of them.

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This would be Gornick's feature directorial debut, though he'd directed four episodes of Laurel's Tales from the Darkside TV series earlier. Tapped to direct this time was longtime Romero collaborator Gornick, who had shot earlier GAR hits like DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) and the original Creepshow. One of the discarded stories (“The Cat from Hell”) was later used for TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE (1990) instead.

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Unlike the original, which contained five tales plus linking segments and ran two hours, this one only contains three stories and links and runs an hour-and-a-half, though five tales were originally planned. Romero is back, but this time only as a writer and, again, adapting Stephen King short stories, two of which had not yet been published. Tom Savini again helped work on the effects and appears in a cameo, though primary makeup fx duties were assigned to Howard Berger, Greg Nicotero and Ed French (Savini was merely a consultant). This was once again produced by Richard P.

The EC Comics-inspired anthology Creepshow (1982) was a modest hit in theaters and did good business on home video and TV, so it was inevitable much of the same team would return for a sequel.

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