Review of Creepshow 2 (1987) by Daniel P — 04 Apr 2009

Pretty much a complete waste of time; a blandly directed, incredibly badly acted and not even well written anthology of three short stories, strung together with piss poor animation sequences. The first story, Old Chief Wood'n Head is a ghastly, cliche, unfunny and unscary tale of Native American justice, and features the worst performances.

Next up, and little better, is The Raft which concerns four horny teenagers (though they look like they're in their late thirties) stranded on a, ahem, raft in the middle of a lake, whilst a malevolent puddle-thing that looks like a cross between puke and diarrhoea picks them off one by one.

There are no surprises, bad gore effects, worse acting and the ending, presumably supposed to be shocking, is unintentionally hilarious. The final story, The Hitchhiker, which is also the most successful - though not by a long stretch - stars the rather repugnant Lois Chiles as an adulteress who mows down a hitchhiker and does a runner, only to be continually pursued by him over and over.

The back cover of the DVD (which for some reason I bought, and so will probably end up on eBay at some point) has a quote from the New York Daily News "as scary as anything you're apt to see!".

Populated by some exceptionally dumb characters, pathetic 'acting', awful gore (tomato ketchup is chucked about liberally to little effect) and directed by a hack, the only thing scary about Creepshow 2 is that Stephen King and George Romero are associated.