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Creepshow 2

Creepshow 2

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not better than the first,but good
Review: Like most of the reviews I've read on here it seems that the second story "THE RAFT" would be the most popular.I agree also.this one can scare the living s==t out of kids who like to swim..(it's also very funny..To me anyway..and that's the point of C1 and C2) The first story is predictable and slow..."We all know what's gonna happen". The third is a lot better and a hell of a lot funnier... "I wonder if she would have said ""you're welcome"" he would have left her alone...lol..Good stuff,worth seeing.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Very entertaining!
Review: This movie is so FUNNY I almost cried! Funnier than the first one. The coolest one was the one with the blob, although it isn't very funny as much as it is suspenseful....which this movie is supposed to be both scary and funny. The funniest one is "The Hitchhiker" it was ssssssooooooooooo-O funny!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Watch this film only for "The Raft"!
Review: A movie showing three vignettes based on short stories from Stephen King.

Story #1

A wooden indian comes to life to seek revenge. A great performance by George Kennedy, but the vignette is quite slow up to the point where the indian comes to life.

Story #2

Four teenagers goes out for a swim but gets stranded on a raft with an oil-like blob wanting their blood. This is the best of all the three stories; you'll love the ending, because it is unexpected!

Story #3

A woman comes home after spending using the services of a male prostitute. On the way home, the woman runs over a hitchhiker; the woman then becomes haunted by the dead hitchhiker. There is a cameo appearance by Stephen King as a truck driver in this vignette.

In addition to the three short stories, there is a short animation sequence about carnivorous venus fly traps.

The second vignette about the raft was the only thing that makes this film worth watching; it was the best story out of both Creepshows one and two, and without it, this would've been a below-average flick!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good Stories... There's Always a Bad One though...
Review: This was a good movie, and pretty much meets the standars of the first one, which by the way I gave a 4/5. I must say though, I give this one a 5, just for the reason of the sencond story, "The Raft" it is about a group of teens who go out and sit on a raft for no reason and a substance that swims in the water is trying to eat them. The first which has to be the worst in the movie is about an indian that owns a shop and 2 other indians break in and kill them and steal stuff, the worst one on the movie! The thrid and final story in about a man that is hitchhiking, and a woman who just came from a, let's say close friends house, hit's him trying to rush home to her husband, he, of course, comes back from the dead and stalks her until she gets home. This movie gets a 5 out of 5, for the thought put into it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not as good as the first, but it does shine in parts
Review: I was a big fan of the first Creepshow, so I went to Creepshow 2 the weekend it hit theaters. My reactions are mixed.

I am a big Tom Savini fan. He is actually a pretty good actor, especially considering he gained fame as a makeup artist. Tom appears as "The Creep" in the wrap-around story. Unfortunately it doesn't carry any chills and they should have kept the Creep from the first movie. Also the animation is pretty bad.

"Old Chief Wooden Head" is the first story presented and despite another great George Kennedy performance, this episode just doesn't deliver. You know what is going to happen from the first time you see Kennedy talking to the wooden indian.

"The Raft" is the reason this gets 4 stars. Despite my opinion that Creepshow was better as a whole than Creepshow 2, "The Raft" is by far the scariest story in EITHER movie. I read the story this was based upon before I saw the movie and thought it would make a great story for "Tales from the Darkside" or another TV horror anthology. I'm glad they waited and put it in a film. Four teens are stuck out on a raft in a lake in early Autumn. Along comes a floating black glob of gunk that can dissolve flesh and seems to be guided by an intellegence. Where did it come from? Who knows? Who cares?? It's extremely creepy!

"The Hitchhiker" is a little better than "Chief Wooden Head", but not by much. A lady accidently hits a hitchhiker, killing him. She drives off frantically and you can kind of guess what happens from there. The ending was especially poor. It's like they didn't know how to end it, so they just gave up.

So, watch this for "The Raft", but get Creepshow if you want a more rounded out movie. If this movie was called "The Raft" and only contained that story, it'd get 5 stars from me.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Thanks for the Ride Lady!
Review: This Movie Had some very Remeberable parts in it! It's not as good as the first one but it is entertaining. This Video has several different stories in one. There's this one story about a woman who picks up a hitchhiker unwillingly and can't get rid of him. Even after Death! Heh! THANKS FOR THE RIDE LADY! To understand you must SEE! You won't regret this purchase!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not close to the first
Review: While it has its moments, this sequal doesn't even compare to the first one. The cartoons between the stories are embarrassingly lame, and the Indian story is awful. The Raft is pretty creepy, and I think the hitchhiker story is the only one that comes close to anything from the original.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not as original as the first but entertaining!!!
Review: The tag line for the original was THE MOST FUN YOU'LL HAVE BEING SCARED. In this second installment the tagline should have been NOT AS MUCH FUN AND NOT AS SCARY. The Wooden Indian story had me feeling really down, those poor store owners!! But it was fun to see the Wooden Indian come to life and gets some revenge (2 out of 5). The Raft story was spooky. The tar pit was a good idea, I felt they really could have made this one work more (4 out of 5). The "Potential" Hitch-hiker story isn't really much of anything. So A woman hits a guy and won't die. Not much thought there (2 out of 4). An average of about 3 but the quality of the DVD will make me want to buy it. Doesn't look like there will be a lot of extras though.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Really, Really Awful - Worse than "Exorcist 2"
Review: The original "Creepshow" with its immense all-star cast is a seminal, campy, highly energized and creative sendup of the comic horror genre, a gem of a hybrid piece wrought out of a labour of true love for mixing media molecules. Inspired, nonpareil fun.

This "sequel" is anything BUT true to the original, and owes more to "Friday the 13th" sophomoric cinematic sensibilities than anything remotely redeemable horrifically. C2 does to C1 what "Aliens" (Cameron's unsubtle sequel) did to Ridley Scott's artful, original "Alien," or what Hollywood's "Point of No Return" did to France's "La Femme Nikita." In a word-- "massacres" the muse.

As bad or worse as C2 is than even something as atrocious as "Exorcist 2" (hard to imagine anything much worse than this shy of "Plan 9 from..."), I came away from the cinema feeling much less certain of the continuing genius of even horror master mavin effects magician himself, Tom Savini. Which isn't really fair to blame Savini for any of this dreck. Nobody could've probably saved C2. It rightfully belongs where it began no doubt, strewn on the editing room floor, rather than in the hands of you the buyer.

Lack of inspiration speaks for itself. C2 ranks right down there with a "raft" of other decidedly unKingly cinematic forays, including but not limited to "Maximum OverDrive," "Children of the Corn," "Pet Sematary," "Christine," and "Graveyard Shift." Not that King himself necessarily had anything to do with some of this dross. Yet we've come and known to expect GREATER things from "our King" and his consorts like the usually incomparable George Romero, yet sometimes, as is the case unfortunately here, "le roi est mort." Uncork C1 again instead - "vive le roi."

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE RAFT
Review: Buy this video just to see "The Raft." It's worth it. All you have to do is check out the rest of the reviews, they all agree - "The Raft" Rocks. Buy it, rent it, borrow it, just see "The Raft." Classic, old school, good-lookin teenage horror cheese at it's best.


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