Creepshow offers five variations on the theme of horror comedy, but hardly any variety. It is a stodgy exercise.

| Aug 9, 2022

It's just too bad that Creepshow wasn't like a real comic book. You could skip the first four stories and read the finale.

| Aug 9, 2022

Creepshow joins two masters of horror and proves that two minds are not necessarily better than one. In fact, it is hard to believe that either man would have made such a bad film working without the other.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 9, 2022

People who didn't experience the horrifying joy of E.C. Comics when they were children may find Creepshow a little dicey at times, but for the others, it was designed to provoke more laughs than scares. At that, it succeeds.

| Aug 9, 2022

There is a delightful undercurrent of humor in all of the sketches, and Romero’s decision to use a journeyman cast heightens this aspect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2022

The movie has the visual style of the E.C. Comics down pat... But it's what's contained within all this perfectly realized style that's the letdown.

| Aug 9, 2022

I needn't have worried. Creepshow isn't very scary at all. Unfortunately, it also isn't much fun.

| Aug 9, 2022

Creepshow is too benign to be frightening and it is not enough of a howl to please those who just want to see a ghoulish comedy. It appears as if success may have spoiled Romero's talent for raw horror.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 9, 2022

The stories are all short enough that they're over before they start to drag. They may remind you, in fact, of those dark little tales that made up such television programs as The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, only more explicit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2022

Creepshow, the result of a devilish and ultimately foolish pact between George Romero and Stephen King, wastes little time in showing that its premise should have been left under a stack of the old horror comics.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 9, 2022

Maybe it's the comic book feel of the whole film, but it was almost like the haunts of my youth having a class reunion, and it was fun.

| Aug 9, 2022

The treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the jolts can be predicted by any ten-year-old with a stop watch.

| Aug 9, 2022

It's an unabashedly juvenile junk movie... Most of the time Creepshow works, though. Ghouls will be ghouls, after all, and Romero, creator of the classic 'Night of the Living Dead, does push a mean panic button.

| Aug 9, 2022

The team-up of director George A. Romero with King was seen as a monumental summit; the movie that resulted from their collaboration is uneven, but its best bits hold up as well as anything in either master's canon.

| Sep 5, 2019

Genuinely creepy, satirical and occasionally daft horror tales with a distinctly moral bent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2010

George Romero, collaborating with writer Stephen King, again proves his adeptness at combining thrills with tongue-in-cheek humor.

| Mar 26, 2009

This five-part film, based on the format of 50s horror comics, marks one of the few times George Romero has directed someone else's script (it's by Stephen King), and the results are only mildly interesting by the standards of his Dead trilogy.

| Apr 18, 2007

he old Amicus movies used EC originals to better effect and with more brevity, for all their cardboard sets.

| Feb 9, 2006

Romero and King have approached this movie with humor and affection, as well as with an appreciation of the macabre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Horror film purists may object to the levity even though failed, as a lot of it is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2004