Our guide through the ghoulish and goofy gutters was a mostly-silent skeleton hobo known as The Creep. Horror maestros George Romero, Stephen King, and makeup specialist Tom Savini brought this movie to life, with King himself even starring in one of the stories. It wasn't an adaptation of an actual old comic though it was simply meant to evoke that style. The first Creepshow movie, in 1982, was meant to be a horror comic splashed up on the big screen. An adaptation of Tales from the Crypt featuring a bunch of famous stars, directors, and producers became one of HBO's first original scripted series in 1989. Tales from the Crypt, complete with the CryptKeeper host character, was a comic book. Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic will involve one of the above two men.Firstly, what was Creepshow? How did it differ from other '80s-era scary story sagas like Tales From the Darkside and Tales From the Crypt? Well, to start with, all of these are based on the EC horror comics scene that rose up post-WW II and saw a huge boom in the '50s and '60s.

I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here. If you have a pic you think should be included email me. Here’s the pic, click for a bigger image! I’m a sucker for anthology horror and any throwback to the great EC comics days done by modern masters is always smiled upon. What good horror geek hasn’t exclaimed “Meteor shit!” when they get their hands dirty? The Raft is probably my favorite segment of any of the Creepshow films.īut The Lonely Death of Jordy Verrill is pretty close. Last Halloween I was Jordy Verrill, albeit the fat version, with moss covering my face, overalls and a plaid shirt, so you can tell I’m a pretty big fan of Creepshow. Thankfully I do have a nice picture of King and George Romero hanging out on the set of CREEPSHOW, which King wrote and starred in as the country bumpkin Jordy Verrill. I’m a huge fan of that flick and a huge King fan in general, so it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t include the maestro in my October horror run of BtSPotD. I would have loved to have a picture of Stephen King from Maximum Overdrive, his first and last foray into directing and a movie I think is kinda dumb, but in all the right ways. Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!

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